Line to Littleton

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

line, n. (117)

    Nat 1.10 19 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.25 18 ...transgression [means] the crossing of a line;...
    Nat 1.30 26 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.76 15 ...line for line...your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's]...
    DSA 1.138 14 Not a line did [the preacher] draw out of real history.
    LE 1.164 5 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
    MN 1.201 7 ...intention might be signified by a straight line of definite length.
    MN 1.203 2 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    YA 1.364 23 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    YA 1.379 9 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    Hist 2.11 19 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
    Hist 2.14 27 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
    SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
    SR 2.59 7 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
    Comp 2.110 6 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
    Comp 2.113 24 ...the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line...
    SL 2.151 1 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march...
    Hsm1 2.255 9 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    OS 2.274 19 The soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line...
    Int 2.326 10 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.
    Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...
    Pt1 3.13 20 Every line we can draw in the sand has expression;...
    Pt1 3.30 20 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
    Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour...
    Exp 3.65 4 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
    Exp 3.66 25 The line [a man] must walk is a hair's breadth.
    Mrs1 3.130 8 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    Mrs1 3.145 26 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct.
    PPh 4.68 16 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line...
    SwM 4.94 5 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.107 23 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
    SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
    MoS 4.170 15 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
    MoS 4.170 16 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
    ShP 4.191 6 Choose any other thing, out of the line of tendency...and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
    ShP 4.197 13 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
    NMW 4.227 17 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    NMW 4.233 8 Few men have any next; they...are ever at the end of their line...
    NMW 4.233 26 [Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his object.
    GoW 4.287 12 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
    ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
    ET2 5.32 13 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 5.40 15 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends.
    ET5 5.86 16 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET5 5.88 9 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET7 5.117 20 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth. Draw a straight line, hit whom and where it will.
    ET10 5.161 23 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET11 5.176 6 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
    ET11 5.180 10 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    ET11 5.182 12 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
    ET14 5.244 23 Burke was addicted to generalizing, but his was a shorter line [than Milton's];...
    ET16 5.281 26 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    ET16 5.281 27 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
    ET16 5.286 1 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    ET16 5.289 20 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church;...
    Wth 6.112 17 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Wth 6.112 24 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Wsp 6.199 21 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
    Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
    Wsp 6.202 21 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
    Bty 6.294 8 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
    Bty 6.305 22 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns.
    SS 7.15 14 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.
    Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.
    Elo1 7.66 26 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe...
    DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    OA 7.329 25 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
    PI 8.40 4 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry,--as often on a line or a phrase as on a poem,--is that it is a new work of Nature...
    Elo2 8.132 10 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    QO 8.191 18 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
    Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the circle.
    Dem1 10.12 24 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Chr2 10.114 21 It is only yesterday that our American churches...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    Supl 10.164 23 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.
    SovE 10.193 8 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice]. Settles for evermore the ponderous equator to its line...
    SovE 10.209 18 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
    Schr 10.280 14 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses; he has run to the end of his line;...
    Thor 10.475 5 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...
    Thor 10.483 11 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
    War 11.158 6 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line;...
    FSLC 11.194 19 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    EPro 11.319 18 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
    EPro 11.322 22 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire.
    EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.371 26 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
    SMC 11.372 6 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    SMC 11.372 9 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days...
    SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front, formed line of battle...
    SMC 11.373 25 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg.
    FRO2 11.487 11 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
    PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.42 15 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...it were a wide prairie.
    PLT 12.50 5 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    PLT 12.50 7 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.105 27 ...each man's memory is in the line of his action.
    CInt 12.111 3 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    CL 12.149 26 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...
    CL 12.160 14 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
    MAng1 12.215 15 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
    MLit 12.320 4 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    EurB 12.367 27 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.
    PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.
    PPr 12.388 22 ...[Carlyle] never wrote one dull line.

line packet, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

lineage, n. (1)

    HDC 11.28 2 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./

lineal, adj. (2)

    ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    HDC 11.30 14 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].

lineaments, n. (3)

    Hist 2.7 13 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
    PI 8.27 19 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

linear, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    LLNE 10.366 1 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.
    CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

lined, v. (5)

    Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages...can we separate the man from the living picture?
    AmS 1.109 19 ...we are lined with eyes;...
    Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    ET4 5.73 21 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...
    Pow 6.81 13 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.

linen, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...

linen, n. (5)

    UGM 4.8 26 The inventors of fire...linen...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen.
    ET10 5.167 16 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...
    CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
    WD 7.160 6 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!

linen-draper, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 23 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...

linens, n. (1)

    DL 7.112 18 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.

lines, n. (75)

    Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
    Nat 1.54 3 I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.
    Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
    MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    MR 1.254 14 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    Hist 2.30 4 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
    SR 2.45 4 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines...
    SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
    Fdsp 2.211 6 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will trust itself...
    Prd1 2.238 22 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...
    Art1 2.356 19 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Pt1 3.10 15 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 written hundreds of lines...
    Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    UGM 4.9 8 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Euclid, of lines;...
    PPh 4.41 7 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
    PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    PNR 4.84 27 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
    PNR 4.87 21 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
    SwM 4.107 25 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...
    ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
    ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
    ShP 4.196 2 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.214 16 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...
    ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    GoW 4.287 9 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
    ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET1 5.22 4 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
    ET1 5.22 8 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
    ET4 5.48 23 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
    ET7 5.120 12 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...
    ET9 5.151 16 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones; but we must not insist on these accidental lines.
    F 6.9 9 The gross lines are legible to the dull;...
    Ctr 6.153 9 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
    Wsp 6.234 26 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion...perhaps on a dozen different lines.
    Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    Bty 6.295 14 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.
    Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    WD 7.181 2 There are no straight lines.
    WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last.
    Suc 7.283 10 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.
    PI 8.46 17 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets (measured lines not being necessary to constitute one) he did not know what poetry meant.
    PI 8.54 23 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    PI 8.55 29 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Lovelace's lines To Althea and To Lucasta...
    PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    QO 8.179 25 In a hundred years, millions of men, and not a hundred lines of poetry...
    QO 8.197 3 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote,-reading, as we say, between the lines.
    PC 8.225 19 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    PPo 8.254 17 And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    PPo 8.259 26 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    Insp 8.278 18 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/...
    Dem1 10.10 21 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Dem1 10.10 22 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the lines of his face, by physiognomy;...
    Dem1 10.10 24 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology: the lines are all there, but the reader waits.
    Aris 10.53 27 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts; the iron boundary lines had all faded away;...
    Chr2 10.113 9 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...
    Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see...the great lines of our destiny...
    MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    SlHr 10.443 20 [Samuel Hoar's] head, with singular grace in its lines, had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
    Thor 10.477 8 [Thoreau's] thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own:-I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./ And still more in these religious lines...
    HDC 11.36 14 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
    HDC 11.43 24 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...town and farm lines to be run.
    HDC 11.64 2 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.
    HDC 11.64 3 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
    EPro 11.319 10 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    SMC 11.374 4 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth...
    CInt 12.131 20 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
    Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...
    Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MLit 12.319 27 ...all [Shelley's] lines are arbitrary, not necessary.
    Pray 12.354 17 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

linger, v. (4)

    MN 1.207 26 Is it for [a man]...to linger by the wayside for opportunities?
    Comp 2.125 24 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...
    Nat2 3.196 9 The divine circulations never rest nor linger.
    MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

lingered, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 10 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.

lingering, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.171 5 ...we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
    FSLN 11.243 22 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.

lingers, v. (4)

    Exp 3.45 12 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes...
    HDC 11.86 20 The benediction of [the Concord people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
    Bost 12.211 6 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MLit 12.310 10 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...

linguists, n. (1)

    Grts 8.318 11 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or linguists...

lining, n. (2)

    PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.

link, n. (13)

    MN 1.207 12 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature...
    ET12 5.201 2 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the link of England to the learned of Europe.
    ET13 5.217 16 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    F 6.22 12 Man is not order of nature...link in a chain...
    Pow 6.54 7 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    Wth 6.118 18 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.
    PI 8.10 20 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
    Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
    Dem1 10.5 2 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
    Chr2 10.121 11 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
    Chr2 10.122 6 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    AKan 11.260 9 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    ACiv 11.310 4 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.

link, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.416 16 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.

linked, adj. (3)

    ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    CW 12.170 12 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/ Better, the linked purpose of the whole./
    Milt1 12.261 12 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...

linked, v. (3)

    SwM 4.96 12 ...all things in nature being linked and related...nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    ShP 4.214 24 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    ET2 5.25 6 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...

links, n. (6)

    Exp 3.54 16 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    MoS 4.175 26 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
    ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together...
    ET5 5.76 3 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...
    WD 7.165 2 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
    Insp 8.275 25 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...

links, v. (2)

    AKan 11.262 19 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
    CInt 12.123 14 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...

Linkum, Massa, n. (1)

    ALin 11.332 23 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.

linnaea, n. (2)

    CL 12.160 17 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    CL 12.162 7 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea, the linnaea, or sanguinaria...

Linnaean, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.54 8 We must use the popular category, as we do the Linnaean classification, for convenience...

Linnaeus, Carolus, n. (18)

    AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
    UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as Linnaeus, of plants;...
    SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus...was affirming...that Nature is always like herself...
    WD 7.183 10 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
    Clbs 7.238 24 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Linnaeus was the guest of Jussieu.
    Suc 7.284 24 It is recorded of Linnaeus...that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    OA 7.329 4 Linnaeus projects his system...before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    MoL 10.246 14 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...
    Plu 10.297 23 [Plutarch] is...not a naturalist, like Pliny or Linnaeus;...
    CL 12.136 14 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
    CL 12.137 19 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    CL 12.138 1 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
    CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
    CL 12.155 3 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...
    CW 12.172 24 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    CW 12.174 25 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.
    Bost 12.188 9 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.

Linnaeus's, Carolus, n. (3)

    Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...
    Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Linnaeus's Diary;...
    ChiE 11.472 6 ...China...had anticipated Linnaeus's nomenclature of plants;...

lint, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.133 5 The sufferers [from egotism]...tear the lint from their bruises...
    Cour 7.272 4 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.

lintel, n. (1)

    ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...

lintels, n. (1)

    SR 2.51 27 I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.

lion, n. (14)

    Nat 1.26 18 An enraged man is a lion...
    AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...see the whelping of this lion...
    YA 1.394 9 ...in England...no man of letters, be his eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Art1 2.356 1 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...fills the eye not less than a lion...
    Pt1 3.16 22 ...a lion...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
    Wsp 6.199 8 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    CbW 6.255 15 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    Bty 6.294 7 ...Beauty rides on a lion.
    Bty 6.301 25 Still, Beauty rides on her lion, as before.
    PPo 8.238 17 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
    EWI 11.143 19 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...
    SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion;...
    CInt 12.111 6 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./

lion-heart, n. (1)

    Schr 10.284 1 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things...

Lion-hearted, Richard the, n (1)

    Plu 10.318 7 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur...and Richard the Lion-Hearted...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

lions, n. (9)

    Mrs1 3.144 1 ...Fashion loves lions...
    Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions...
    Wsp 6.199 7 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
    Cour 7.256 23 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions...
    PerF 10.84 23 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Supl 10.174 25 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
    SMC 11.368 13 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades, now and then particularizing names: Bowers, Shepard and Lauriat are as brave as lions.
    Bost 12.191 24 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
    Bost 12.192 9 The lions have never appeared [in Massachusetts] since,- nor before.

lion's, n. (2)

    Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the lion's claw...
    ET7 5.120 26 In the power of saying rude truth, sometimes in the lion's mouth, no men surpass [the English].

lip, n. (5)

    DL 7.127 14 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    OA 7.320 9 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury, and the lip made up with a heroic determination not to mind it.
    PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
    EurB 12.365 13 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.

lips, n. (39)

    Nat 1.53 17 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...
    AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
    DSA 1.129 10 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    DSA 1.151 10 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
    LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion rises to his lips...
    LE 1.185 13 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect whereof you will seldom hear from the lips of your new companions.
    MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips...
    Tran 1.346 15 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent he should never be out of my mind, his name never far from my lips;...
    Comp 2.105 11 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags...that they do not touch him;--but the brag is on his lips...
    SL 2.157 17 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not, though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
    Fdsp 2.212 7 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until...day and night avail themselves of your lips.
    Int 2.347 9 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
    Nat2 3.194 4 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill; no syllable can he shape on his lips.
    PPh 4.54 21 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...lips of persuasion... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    Bhr 6.180 14 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
    DL 7.103 12 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    Boks 7.219 10 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
    Cour 7.259 7 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...what white lips they have!...
    Suc 7.304 9 What was on [the lover's] lips to say is uttered by his friend.
    OA 7.319 5 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
    PI 8.31 13 ...[the amateur] speaks with his lips and the [poet] with a chest voice.
    PI 8.43 27 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
    PPo 8.247 12 [Hafiz's] was the fluent mind in which every thought and feeling came readily to the lips.
    PPo 8.259 27 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    PPo 8.260 7 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
    Grts 8.309 11 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips.
    Chr2 10.92 9 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he blows with his lips against the tempest...
    Chr2 10.94 17 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will, but the world utters a sound by his lips.
    Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend, a man of guarded lips...said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    Schr 10.265 11 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...sculptured lips;...
    HDC 11.76 16 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
    Scot 11.464 10 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides, and written down from their lips by antiquaries;...
    PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
    II 12.69 21 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?
    Mem 12.97 19 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    MLit 12.334 7 There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.
    EurB 12.369 14 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.

liquid, adj. (6)

    Int 2.333 24 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    ET2 5.26 25 The good ship darts through the water...gliding through liquid leagues...
    ET14 5.257 10 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.
    Bhr 6.180 22 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...
    DL 7.103 17 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief...soften all hearts to pity...
    Shak1 11.448 7 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.

liquid, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...melt it to liquid...it will always weigh a pound;...
    UGM 4.10 10 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    Cour 7.267 9 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts, for he never tasted any liquid but pure water.

liquidate, v. (1)

    Cir 2.316 19 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.

liquidation, n. (1)

    DL 7.115 6 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.

liquor, adj. (1)

    SlHr 10.447 8 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

liquor, n. (6)

    Hsm1 2.255 1 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    Wth 6.126 9 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
    Bhr 6.177 11 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
    Aris 10.43 11 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
    SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by liquor, since we came here.
    II 12.81 10 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought...

liquors, n. (1)

    Wom 11.420 15 On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

Lisbon, Portugal, n. (2)

    ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...
    F 6.7 18 At Lisbon an earthquake killed men like flies.

list, n. (17)

    Chr1 3.103 26 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
    GoW 4.270 2 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
    ET12 5.199 2 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
    Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    Civ 7.21 9 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
    Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Boks 7.209 3 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled...
    Elo2 8.126 14 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
    Res 8.153 15 I have not...gone beyond the beginning of my list [of Resources].
    PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    Wom 11.423 19 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature; and I add a rude list of some by-laws of the mind.
    Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
    ACri 12.293 12 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...
    Trag 12.408 24 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.

listen, v. (34)

    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    MN 1.207 3 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    MN 1.209 23 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    LT 1.269 27 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to...drive all neutrals...to listen to the argument and the verdict.
    OS 2.294 23 [Man] must greatly listen to himself...
    Art1 2.356 4 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen...
    Art1 2.362 17 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.
    NER 3.285 21 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...
    ET7 5.125 8 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    Pow 6.75 25 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.
    Ctr 6.151 7 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Epaminondas, who never says anything, but will listen eternally;...
    Wsp 6.217 1 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    Elo1 7.68 20 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.
    Elo1 7.83 17 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    Elo1 7.85 18 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...
    WD 7.179 11 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...
    Clbs 7.232 23 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
    Clbs 7.232 24 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
    PI 8.45 2 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say.
    PI 8.57 11 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian...
    SA 8.79 4 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend.
    SA 8.106 18 Listen to every prompting of honor.
    Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
    Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
    PerF 10.81 16 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...
    PerF 10.87 26 ...legislatures listen with appetite to declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.
    SovE 10.200 21 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
    LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse, listen to all its faults amd mark its power...
    MMEm 10.408 16 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child.
    CInt 12.112 2 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.130 3 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    PPr 12.384 11 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear. Though they die, they must listen.

listened, v. (24)

    AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
    Pt1 3.10 19 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 written hundreds of lines, but...could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea. How gladly we listened!...
    Chr1 3.89 1 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    Chr1 3.106 1 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law...
    NER 3.273 8 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    SwM 4.140 22 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
    MoS 4.165 25 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    NMW 4.255 21 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
    NMW 4.256 2 It does not appear that [Napoleon] listened at key-holes...
    ET16 5.286 7 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    Bhr 6.190 17 A man already strong is listened to...
    Bty 6.298 7 We talk to [women] and wish to be listened to;...
    Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Clbs 7.242 1 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    SovE 10.200 22 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
    LLNE 10.348 27 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
    LLNE 10.351 18 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
    EzRy 10.392 9 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    Thor 10.459 18 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    FSLN 11.226 12 [Webster] listened to State reasons and hopes...
    FSLN 11.242 13 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    EPro 11.317 6 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    FRO1 11.477 8 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
    ACri 12.288 18 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of the Sacre! of the French postilion...

listener, n. (3)

    ShP 4.219 11 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
    Elo1 7.92 2 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
    Elo2 8.114 25 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...

listeners, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.345 24 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;...
    LLNE 10.346 20 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...

listener's, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.59 9 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...

listening, adj. (1)

    MN 1.208 18 Why then goest thou as some Boswell or listening worshipper to this saint or to that?

listening, v. (12)

    AmS 1.102 22 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    SL 2.139 12 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
    Exp 3.82 4 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
    NER 3.271 16 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him...
    MoS 4.168 14 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
    ET4 5.64 16 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    ET13 5.218 17 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride.
    Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Elo2 8.117 23 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Insp 8.268 6 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    SovE 10.200 19 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.
    PLT 12.3 3 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

listens, v. (6)

    DSA 1.139 6 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
    SwM 4.142 23 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
    Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens...
    PI 8.17 1 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.30 5 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
    Grts 8.307 8 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

listeth, v. (2)

    PI 8.62 2 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her: she cometh when she listeth, for her will is here.
    Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth.

listlessly, adv. (1)

    LE 1.167 27 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets...

lists, n. (10)

    Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    Tran 1.346 3 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    Fdsp 2.202 4 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...
    Pt1 3.17 27 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Pol1 3.217 12 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
    PPh 4.56 20 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    ET1 5.8 19 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    ET10 5.160 13 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
    Schr 10.286 23 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship].
    Milt1 12.255 24 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].

lit, v. (1)

    Insp 8.268 10 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

Litchfield County, Connecti (1)

    JBS 11.277 16 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.

literal, adj. (10)

    Con 1.302 21 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude...
    Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    Pt1 3.38 16 Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical.
    SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
    SwM 4.120 5 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
    PI 8.12 5 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.43 24 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term...
    Supl 10.167 13 The English mind...likes literal statement;...
    ACiv 11.299 26 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.

literalist, n. (1)

    SwM 4.121 18 [Nature] is no literalist.

literalists, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.140 13 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...

literally, adv. (4)

    Nat2 3.196 4 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.
    WD 7.180 21 The world is enigmatical...and must not be taken literally...
    Let 12.400 6 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he passes for...

literalness, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 5 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...

literary, adj. (111)

    AmS 1.81 2 I greet you on the recommencement of our literary year.
    AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    AmS 1.112 20 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    LE 1.155 4 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.164 10 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power...and he is piqued.
    LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    LE 1.176 26 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    MN 1.191 2 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    MN 1.193 14 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
    MN 1.197 26 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
    MR 1.242 12 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    LT 1.269 6 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    SL 2.154 3 There is no luck in literary reputation.
    OS 2.287 6 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.288 5 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    Cir 2.308 25 ...there is not any literary reputation...that may not be revised and condemned.
    Pt1 3.38 15 Milton is too literary...
    Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...
    Chr1 3.104 27 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]!
    Mrs1 3.129 26 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence, as a patriotic, a literary, a religious movement, and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    Mrs1 3.153 7 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the literary or scientific circle...
    NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power...of literary art...
    NER 3.270 7 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...
    UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
    PPh 4.59 12 ...[Plato] abounds in the surprises of a literary master.
    PPh 4.75 27 [Plato] is intellectual in his aim; and therefore, in expression, literary.
    PPh 4.76 3 ...expounding...the hope of the parting soul,--[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    SwM 4.111 18 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
    SwM 4.123 23 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.
    MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
    NMW 4.229 1 [Napoleon] is never weak and literary...
    NMW 4.249 21 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
    GoW 4.269 2 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
    GoW 4.270 2 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
    GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET1 5.4 21 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
    ET6 5.114 13 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news;...
    ET14 5.237 17 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
    ET14 5.251 11 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    ET14 5.252 14 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
    ET15 5.264 14 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question...
    ET17 5.295 3 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    ET17 5.297 5 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET19 5.312 5 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...
    Wth 6.124 12 The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit;...
    Wth 6.125 25 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras,--literary, emotive, practical,--of its life...
    DL 7.110 3 ...a scholar is a literary foundation.
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
    WD 7.181 23 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat...for money;...
    Boks 7.220 22 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
    Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
    Suc 7.297 14 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results?
    OA 7.315 8 [Josiah Quincy]...gracefully claiming the privileges of a literary society, entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
    OA 7.319 13 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    OA 7.319 15 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
    OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
    PC 8.219 11 Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities...
    Insp 8.276 1 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    Insp 8.296 2 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Insp 8.296 24 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
    Chr2 10.105 1 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Supl 10.169 13 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    Prch 10.228 22 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    Schr 10.265 16 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    Schr 10.266 19 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
    Schr 10.279 14 ...the young...looking around them...at religious and literary teachers and teaching,-finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Schr 10.283 26 The scholar...is unfurnished who has only literary weapons.
    Schr 10.287 10 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
    Plu 10.300 8 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    LLNE 10.328 20 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    LLNE 10.335 13 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 10.335 18 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    SlHr 10.445 13 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius nor of a literary nor an executive talent.
    Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary distinction.
    Thor 10.482 9 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought and feeling, but for their power of description and literary excellence...
    Carl 10.493 19 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    Carl 10.494 11 [Carlyle] hates a literary trifler...
    FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.242 5 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
    FSLN 11.242 26 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    HCom 11.343 26 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    EdAd 11.391 3 There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.
    SHC 11.433 13 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    Shak1 11.447 5 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
    Scot 11.467 26 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors...
    ChiE 11.473 20 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me satisfaction?
    PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.
    II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius!
    CInt 12.117 2 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
    Bost 12.186 19 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
    Milt1 12.247 4 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
    Milt1 12.253 15 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    Milt1 12.271 25 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty...
    WSL 12.342 22 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.
    WSL 12.345 14 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men, or literary men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    WSL 12.346 12 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    AgMs 12.360 21 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men.
    EurB 12.365 2 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
    PPr 12.383 27 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
    PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits...

Literary Ethics, n. (1)

    LE 1.158 3 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.

Literary Gazettes, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 12 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

literary, n. (1)

    Schr 10.261 10 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.

Literary Societies, n. (1)

    MoL 10.241 1 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...

Literature, American, n. (2)

    Let 12.404 12 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.
    Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

literature, n. (170)

    Nat 1.53 22 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
    AmS 1.87 13 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed.
    AmS 1.91 6 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me witness.
    AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    AmS 1.111 1 The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child...are the topics of the time.
    DSA 1.143 21 Literature becomes frivolous.
    LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
    LE 1.167 9 Say rather all literature is yet to be written.
    MN 1.211 5 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
    MN 1.221 12 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    MN 1.221 16 [The intellect] will burn up all profane literature...as in a moment of time.
    MR 1.228 19 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state, literature or history...
    MR 1.242 9 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
    LT 1.283 11 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    Tran 1.333 12 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
    Tran 1.342 4 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...
    Hist 2.7 10 All literature writes the character of the wise man.
    Hist 2.14 23 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature...
    Hist 2.17 16 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Hist 2.25 19 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons speak simply...
    Hist 2.29 25 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature...
    Comp 2.106 9 [The human soul] finds a tongue in literature unawares.
    Comp 2.109 1 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason...
    SL 2.145 3 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
    Fdsp 2.215 21 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall regret the lost literature of your mind...
    Hsm1 2.248 14 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
    OS 2.291 2 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
    Cir 2.311 27 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
    Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
    Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
    Int 2.346 12 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Exp 3.47 18 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas...
    Exp 3.64 26 Expediency of literature...is questioned;...
    Exp 3.64 26 ...reason of literature...is questioned;...
    Exp 3.76 7 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
    Chr1 3.106 12 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment;...
    Mrs1 3.120 25 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    Nat2 3.177 25 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
    Nat2 3.189 10 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    NR 3.232 17 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
    PPh 4.45 14 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    SwM 4.103 8 One of the missouriums and mastodons of literature, [Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    SwM 4.117 24 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
    MoS 4.165 4 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners, of a literature addressed equally to both sexes, do not allow.
    ShP 4.196 15 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day].
    ShP 4.197 16 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
    ShP 4.198 11 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    ShP 4.204 6 ...[Shakespeare] is the father of German literature...
    ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ShP 4.204 14 Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized.
    GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
    GoW 4.277 10 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
    ET1 5.17 11 [Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment;...
    ET4 5.55 17 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages...
    ET5 5.93 9 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
    ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities.
    ET8 5.142 17 [The English] are intellectual and deeply enjoy literature;...
    ET13 5.223 19 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money...in buying Pugin and architectural literature.
    ET13 5.223 26 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
    ET14 5.245 9 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    ET14 5.245 16 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    ET14 5.252 19 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
    ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    Ctr 6.133 25 Religious literature has eminent examples [of egotism]...
    Ctr 6.155 10 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Ctr 6.164 17 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.191 20 Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature.
    CbW 6.272 11 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    SS 7.10 25 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law. Nor is the rule otherwise for literature.
    Elo1 7.71 5 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
    Boks 7.197 15 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
    Boks 7.199 8 Here [in Plato] is that which is so attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call it?...
    Boks 7.202 26 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.203 26 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    Boks 7.211 18 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    Boks 7.220 24 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    Suc 7.292 22 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation;...
    PI 8.6 1 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
    PI 8.35 23 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
    PI 8.53 23 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
    PI 8.63 6 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    PI 8.65 15 ...in current literature I do not find [Nature].
    PI 8.65 15 Literature warps away from life...
    PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust] is a very disagreeable chapter of literature...
    Comc 8.160 12 [The disparity between the rule and the fact] is the radical joke of life and then of literature.
    Comc 8.164 22 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    Comc 8.168 13 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science].
    QO 8.178 3 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    QO 8.180 4 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    QO 8.182 5 Religious literature, the psalms and liturgies of churches, are... of this slow growth...
    QO 8.186 1 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.
    QO 8.188 1 Is all literature eaves-dropping...
    QO 8.189 4 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    QO 8.189 22 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?
    QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
    QO 8.195 18 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature.
    PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    Insp 8.294 15 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
    Imtl 8.346 16 Not by literature or theology...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    PerF 10.82 4 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own.
    Edc1 10.141 17 The obscure youth learns [in solitude] the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
    Edc1 10.149 16 ...in literature, the young man who has taste for poetry...is insatiable for this nourishment...
    MoL 10.256 8 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature.
    Schr 10.265 3 [Poets] have no toleration for literature;...
    Schr 10.266 16 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    Schr 10.273 5 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.
    Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
    LLNE 10.338 22 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
    LLNE 10.342 16 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
    LLNE 10.363 20 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight], who has presided over its literature ever since in our metropolis.
    EzRy 10.394 24 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon, for he had no literature and no art;...
    Thor 10.451 10 An iconoclast in literature, [Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
    FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...
    FSLN 11.224 5 ...there is...not an aphorism that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    Wom 11.423 17 The fairest names in this country in literature, in law, have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
    RBur 11.441 8 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
    Humb 11.458 15 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
    Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
    CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
    CPL 11.501 22 ...literature is the record of the best thoughts.
    FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    PLT 12.13 20 I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
    II 12.78 13 ...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
    CInt 12.115 1 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not.
    CInt 12.127 13 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...
    CInt 12.128 22 If your college and your literature are not felt, it is because the truth is not in them.
    Milt1 12.248 6 There is no name in English literature between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his own.
    Milt1 12.256 16 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
    ACri 12.283 1 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
    ACri 12.283 5 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...
    ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    ACri 12.300 12 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
    ACri 12.302 27 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    ACri 12.303 14 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm...
    ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    MLit 12.310 3 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    MLit 12.310 16 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
    MLit 12.311 8 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    MLit 12.311 12 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
    MLit 12.312 1 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.313 22 ...the single soul feels its right...itself to sit in judgment on history and literature...
    MLit 12.317 2 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.320 12 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature...
    MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
    MLit 12.333 3 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    MLit 12.334 1 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.
    MLit 12.334 12 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
    WSL 12.340 1 A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.
    WSL 12.341 3 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
    WSL 12.341 20 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
    WSL 12.346 19 [Landor's] position is by no means the highest in literature...
    WSL 12.346 25 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    WSL 12.348 25 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature;...
    EurB 12.369 3 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
    EurB 12.373 26 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it...is always reappearing in literature.
    EurB 12.374 25 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    PPr 12.383 16 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
    PPr 12.389 26 We have in literature few specimens of magnificence.
    PPr 12.390 14 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature;...
    PPr 12.390 22 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.
    PPr 12.391 7 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle.
    Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
    Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...
    Trag 12.408 11 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind, and of tragedy in literature.

Literature, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 15 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

literatures, n. (8)

    LE 1.159 10 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
    MN 1.218 13 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions...
    Cir 2.305 12 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave...all the literatures of the nations...
    Cir 2.311 17 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations...
    PPh 4.39 7 ...[Plato's sentences] are the fountain-head of literatures.
    GoW 4.272 4 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    MoL 10.253 7 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.

literature's, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.224 11 [The spurious prudence, making the senses final] is nature's joke, and therefore literature's.

lithe, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.237 9 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...

litheness, n. (1)

    ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.

lithography, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.472 5 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals;...

litigation, n. (1)

    YA 1.385 24 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference, and not by litigation.

litmus, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test, like blue litmus or other chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.

litter, n. (1)

    Art1 2.356 5 A dog, drawn by a master, or a litter of pigs, satisfies...

littered, v. (1)

    Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.

litters, n. (1)

    SL 2.152 21 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition. The sick would be carried in litters.

little, adj. (302)

    Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
    Nat 1.28 13 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
    Nat 1.28 26 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor...then all its habits... become sublime.
    Nat 1.28 27 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be...a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.37 10 ...what rejoicing over us of little men;...
    Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
    AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
    DSA 1.148 7 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence...
    LE 1.172 3 LE 1.172 21 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
    LE 1.186 15 Be content with a little light, so it be your own.
    MN 1.196 19 ...a man lasts but a very little while...
    MR 1.249 25 The Americans have little faith.
    LT 1.266 23 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...
    LT 1.278 10 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than...a little breath of your mouth?
    LT 1.280 14 I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical.
    LT 1.283 24 So little action amidst such audacious and yet sincere profession...
    LT 1.285 4 ...have a little patience with this melancholy humor.
    Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
    Tran 1.353 15 So little skill enters into these works...that it really signifies little what we do...
    Tran 1.353 22 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    YA 1.368 4 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do] would yield.
    SR 2.57 17 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
    SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...
    SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
    SR 2.59 4 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of...at a little height of thought.
    Comp 2.101 21 The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.
    Comp 2.117 25 A great man is always willing to be little.
    SL 2.135 25 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    SL 2.138 21 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;......
    Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
    Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    Lov1 2.184 26 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
    Fdsp 2.204 23 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
    Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
    Prd1 2.221 2 What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little...
    Prd1 2.234 18 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
    Prd1 2.234 19 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...little portions of time...
    Hsm1 2.251 19 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act, until after some little time be past;...
    Hsm1. 2.252 19 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...
    Hsm1. 2.252 24 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
    Hsm1. 2.252 25 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
    Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    OS 2.276 6 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty;...
    OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a phial...
    Cir 2.302 27 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    Int 2.328 26 We have little control over our thoughts.
    Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish, a little way from the ground or the water;...
    Pt1 3.19 19 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
    Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
    Exp 3.43 14 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
    Exp 3.81 4 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
    Exp 3.85 19 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
    Mrs1 3.131 11 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.135 9 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens, which are of eminent convenience, whether the guest is too great or too little.
    Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature...
    Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures...
    Nat2 3.172 26 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
    Nat2 3.179 20 A little heat, that is a little motion, is all that differences the... cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.185 5 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
    Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
    Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    NR 3.228 7 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NER 3.261 8 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.266 27 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    NER 3.268 9 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
    UGM 4.10 17 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    UGM 4.18 6 Little minds are little through failure to see [the laws of identity and of reaction].
    UGM 4.22 2 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties...but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.23 23 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    PPh 4.68 9 We can define but a little way;...
    PNR 4.89 23 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    SwM 4.114 13 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
    SwM 4.114 15 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...
    SwM 4.114 16 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues; those of the stomach, little stomachs;...
    SwM 4.114 17 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...those of the heart, little hearts.
    SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
    SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.
    MoS 4.152 11 No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    MoS 4.166 7 ...[Montaigne] will indulge himself with a little cursing and swearing;...
    MoS 4.177 9 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.
    NMW 4.223 12 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...the kidney, of little kidneys, etc.
    NMW 4.223 17 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    GoW 4.275 23 It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe] writes upon.
    ET1 5.16 11 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
    ET2 5.30 13 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET3 5.37 16 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET3 5.42 22 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...
    ET6 5.102 17 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
    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...
    ET9 5.148 5 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    ET9 5.148 17 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character, since a little man would be ruined by the vexation.
    ET10 5.158 9 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved...
    ET11 5.194 2 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    ET12 5.205 18 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...
    ET14 5.245 5 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...
    ET14 5.249 25 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
    ET16 5.274 4 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
    ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...
    ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
    ET16 5.282 13 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    ET16 5.286 15 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood...
    ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
    F 6.11 4 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...
    F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...
    F 6.29 15 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    Pow 6.55 9 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins.
    Pow 6.66 17 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...
    Pow 6.70 21 The luxury of fire is to have a little on our hearth;...
    Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Ctr 6.135 11 Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
    Ctr 6.144 15 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
    Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint;...
    Ctr 6.152 2 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
    Ctr 6.154 22 A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
    Ctr 6.157 21 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just. And the poor little poet hearkens only to that...
    Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    Bhr 6.189 11 A little integrity is better than any career.
    Wsp 6.212 9 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.222 12 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...
    Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.229 25 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make...
    Wsp 6.237 5 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
    CbW 6.246 8 'T is little we can do for each other.
    CbW 6.250 24 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...
    CbW 6.275 3 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    Bty 6.288 9 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    Bty 6.296 18 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm...
    Civ 7.29 22 We are dapper little busybodies...
    Civ 7.32 8 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me of little use for the most part to those who have it...
    DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's...
    DL 7.103 20 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.
    DL 7.103 22 ...[the child's] little sins [are] more bewitching than any virtue.
    DL 7.104 5 ...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.
    DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
    DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
    DL 7.107 1 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    Farm 7.148 20 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it...
    WD 7.166 10 Here are great arts and little men.
    Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.
    Clbs 7.225 4 We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no reaction.
    Cour 7.257 3 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo...bites fiercely;...
    Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Cour 7.265 5 ...men with little imagination are less fearful;...
    Cour 7.275 19 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
    Cour 7.278 5 A little Indian boy/ Followed [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Suc 7.296 7 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
    Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
    Suc 7.310 27 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine' s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
    OA 7.324 23 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    OA 7.329 9 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.4 20 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.45 13 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little account...
    PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    PI 8.64 4 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    SA 8.84 27 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    SA 8.102 6 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    SA 8.103 25 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
    SA 8.105 22 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...
    Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
    Elo2 8.127 15 ...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...
    Res 8.141 4 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...
    Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    Res 8.149 1 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.
    Res 8.151 18 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature...
    QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    PC 8.223 26 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    Insp 8.288 4 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    Insp 8.297 2 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who needed only a little wealth.
    Grts 8.319 5 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    Imtl 8.326 4 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
    Aris 10.37 17 We like cool people...on whom events make little or no impression...
    PerF 10.74 17 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
    PerF 10.80 27 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    Edc1 10.135 15 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself...
    Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...
    Edc1 10.157 17 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit...
    Edc1 10.158 6 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Supl 10.166 5 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams...
    SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.205 9 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our feet walk in the streets of a little town...
    MoL 10.245 24 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    MoL 10.256 5 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    Schr 10.276 22 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
    Schr 10.278 9 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...
    Schr 10.278 13 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...and how little thought operates how great an effect, one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    LLNE 10.336 9 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet...
    LLNE 10.340 8 A poor little invalid all his life, [Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    LLNE 10.342 5 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke.
    LLNE 10.343 14 From that time meetings were held for conversation, with very little form...
    EzRy 10.383 24 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little box under the pulpit...
    EzRy 10.388 10 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    MMEm 10.400 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day...
    MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
    MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society alone...
    MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
    SlHr 10.441 23 [Samuel Hoar] had little or no power of generalization.
    SlHr 10.446 25 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town...
    Thor 10.455 8 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
    Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    Thor 10.483 25 A little thought is sexton to all the world.
    HDC 11.29 22 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.34 8 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves, their wives and little ones...
    HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not much to spare...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
    HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
    HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.44 11 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
    HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty.
    HDC 11.73 19 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one.
    EWI 11.123 24 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were...less energetic shopkeepers than we; who had very little skill in trade.
    EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    EWI 11.133 5 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    War 11.154 23 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large.
    War 11.175 12 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    FSLC 11.179 3 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    FSLC 11.210 27 Massachusetts is a little state: countries have been great by ideas.
    FSLC 11.211 1 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
    FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
    FSLC 11.211 12 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
    FSLN 11.242 23 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    AKan 11.258 14 I own I have little esteem for governments.
    AKan 11.260 3 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    ACiv 11.298 22 All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant are deferred.
    ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race...
    HCom 11.343 15 Here in this little Massachusetts...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    HCom 11.343 16 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
    HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
    EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
    Wom 11.409 8 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Shak1 11.448 1 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary.]
    Shak1 11.448 11 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    Shak1 11.450 24 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    FRO1 11.477 4 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
    FRO1 11.480 27 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
    CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.503 15 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
    FRep 11.543 24 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...
    PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    PLT 12.16 17 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank.
    PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
    PLT 12.20 10 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.49 17 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at little stations?
    PLT 12.50 11 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in effect is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.
    PLT 12.63 4 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
    Mem 12.107 19 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget. A little thought is sexton to all the world.
    CInt 12.120 17 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you, and you become little among the Grecians;...
    CInt 12.124 23 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results; and a little violence must be done to private genius to accomplish this.
    CInt 12.125 15 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education, and not falling into the system and the little parties in the convent...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...
    CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
    CL 12.143 10 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
    CW 12.172 13 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.
    CW 12.174 6 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that...even the trees make little speeches or hint them.
    Bost 12.187 2 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
    Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population, where is little elegance and no facility;... you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.197 15 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.201 12 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
    Bost 12.201 15 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...
    Bost 12.209 4 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...
    Bost 12.211 10 Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks [Boston];...
    MAng1 12.215 8 ...in [Michelangelo's] greatness was so little eccentricity... that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.228 8 A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's] nourishment;...
    Milt1 12.250 12 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    ACri 12.287 27 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!
    ACri 12.294 21 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought;...
    MLit 12.326 26 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
    WSL 12.341 5 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition to profound thought...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    Pray 12.355 8 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;...
    EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
    PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.
    PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
    Trag 12.407 15 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

little, adv. (178)

    LE 1.184 22 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Con 1.299 13 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles, they will fail me, I must bend a little;...
    Tran 1.351 27 ...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.353 16 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Tran 1.353 17 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Tran 1.354 26 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    YA 1.389 9 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation;...
    SR 2.85 14 ...the equinox [the man in the street] knows as little;...
    SL 2.150 9 ...the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us;...
    Lov1 2.178 5 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Lov1 2.184 11 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.
    Prd1 2.237 18 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    Hsm1 2.251 16 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.
    Hsm1 2.257 20 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
    Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer...
    Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Exp 3.46 2 Ah that our Genius were a little more of a genius!
    Exp 3.61 22 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
    Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
    Exp 3.69 27 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken.
    Chr1 3.100 7 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
    Mrs1 3.141 11 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent.
    Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    Nat2 3.185 19 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in which they are rightest...
    NR 3.242 27 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight...
    UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
    PPh 4.46 2 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.71 25 [Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
    PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
    SwM 4.100 26 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
    SwM 4.133 26 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
    MoS 4.173 14 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.
    ShP 4.196 23 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...
    NMW 4.238 12 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
    NMW 4.246 21 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit...
    ET2 5.26 3 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment...when I was a little spent by some unusual studies.
    ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate...
    ET3 5.37 10 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years;...
    ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...a little overloaded by his flesh.
    ET5 5.74 12 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically...
    ET5 5.84 18 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a commoner.
    ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
    ET11 5.172 3 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET11 5.188 18 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET15 5.262 5 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may, or it may be a little later, but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...a little sooner or later, these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET16 5.273 11 I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere, which vary a little from true east and west, followed the variations of the compass.
    ET17 5.293 12 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England], with persons little known.
    ET19 5.313 15 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day...
    F 6.7 3 The way of Providence is a little rude.
    F 6.35 7 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel. That is a little overstated-but may pass.
    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 6.55 3 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Wth 6.107 21 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    Ctr 6.140 22 We are always a little late.
    Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more capricious than he was.
    Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...
    Bhr 6.175 26 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he;...
    CbW 6.260 17 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring...
    CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    CbW 6.276 7 If you are proposing only your own, the other party must deal a little hardly by you.
    Bty 6.293 18 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    Bty 6.296 20 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
    Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    Civ 7.19 19 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    Elo1 7.76 11 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...
    DL 7.121 27 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    DL 7.125 1 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    WD 7.163 26 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful.
    WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
    WD 7.180 25 Cannot we be a little abstemious and obedient?
    Boks 7.203 9 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.215 11 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Clbs 7.234 20 ...to come a little nearer to my mark, I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...
    Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
    Suc 7.299 27 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? a little more or less signifies nothing.
    OA 7.321 4 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    PI 8.28 10 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul is released a little from its passion...we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.48 9 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    PI 8.48 10 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
    PI 8.67 20 We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
    PI 8.67 23 We must be a little strict also, and ask whether, if we sit down at home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
    PI 8.69 6 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible.
    PI 8.69 7 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible. We can find such a fabric at several mills, though a little inferior.
    PI 8.72 21 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account.
    SA 8.85 7 ...work and starve a little longer.
    SA 8.97 7 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who must be kept down and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
    SA 8.103 18 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
    Res 8.146 6 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    PC 8.220 1 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
    Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
    PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal...
    PerF 10.86 17 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Chr2 10.91 15 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things,-that sounds a little cold and scholastic,-no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    Chr2 10.93 9 If from these external statements we seek to come a little nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr 10.116 27 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
    Edc1 10.148 27 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    Supl 10.164 16 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    Supl 10.168 23 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    Supl 10.171 4 ...I had been present, a little before, in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
    SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
    SovE 10.210 25 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous, and that he should like to lift it a little...
    Schr 10.264 17 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Schr 10.276 19 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons; a little pure, and not too much, to every head.
    Schr 10.277 27 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.344 16 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached; little cared he.
    MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
    Thor 10.456 9 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;...
    Thor 10.468 2 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    Thor 10.473 7 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
    LS 11.11 4 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    HDC 11.61 1 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
    EWI 11.139 9 [The steam of human affairs...is very little affected by the activity of legislators.
    War 11.159 23 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
    War 11.166 17 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
    FSLC 11.180 23 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FSLC 11.186 15 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.196 13 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
    FSLC 11.209 7 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
    FSLN 11.220 1 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...
    FSLN 11.221 19 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    FSLN 11.231 9 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
    AsSu 11.249 21 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North...
    JBS 11.276 23 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    JBS 11.277 6 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    JBS 11.277 8 Everything that is said of [John Brown] leaves people a little dissatisfied;...
    JBS 11.278 27 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    JBS 11.280 13 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    TPar 11.287 1 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    TPar 11.287 5 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
    TPar 11.288 17 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
    CPL 11.496 12 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
    FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
    PLT 12.22 18 Is it not a little startling to see with what genius some people take to hunting...
    PLT 12.25 18 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius;...
    PLT 12.50 26 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
    PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.
    PLT 12.55 8 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true.
    II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.72 10 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.87 12 Obedience to its genius (to speak a little scholastically) is the particular of faith;...
    CInt 12.121 16 A little finer order...commands centuries of facts...
    CInt 12.124 25 ...genius...must be a little impatient and rebellious to this rule [of classification in college]...
    CL 12.158 15 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
    CL 12.166 3 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.
    CL 12.166 4 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.
    CW 12.171 4 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...
    CW 12.177 24 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...
    Bost 12.201 5 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    Bost 12.202 3 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.
    Bost 12.210 7 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
    Milt1 12.248 15 In his lifetime, [Milton] was little or not at all known as a poet...
    AgMs 12.364 1 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...
    EurB 12.372 15 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...
    EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid castigation...
    Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...
    Let 12.393 19 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf, until they be a little older;...
    Let 12.397 6 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny, and a little faithless...
    Let 12.399 20 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...
    Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings.

Little, Mrs., n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 19 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...

little, n. (47)

    Nat 1.69 1 [Man] is in little all the sphere./
    LT 1.266 2 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.
    YA 1.368 19 In America we have hitherto little to boast in this kind [of beautiful gardens].
    Fdsp 2.205 5 I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
    Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me.
    Fdsp 2.213 18 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    Prd1 2.232 12 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
    Art1 2.369 3 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
    Pt1 3.40 1 What a little of all we know is said!
    Exp 3.84 19 To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.
    PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
    PNR 4.82 24 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;...
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    line, n. (117)

      Nat 1.10 19 ...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
      Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
      Nat 1.25 18 ...transgression [means] the crossing of a line;...
      Nat 1.30 26 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
      Nat 1.76 15 ...line for line...your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's]...
      DSA 1.138 14 Not a line did [the preacher] draw out of real history.
      LE 1.164 5 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
      MN 1.201 7 ...intention might be signified by a straight line of definite length.
      MN 1.203 2 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
      YA 1.364 23 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
      YA 1.379 9 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
      Hist 2.11 19 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
      Hist 2.14 27 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
      SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
      SR 2.59 7 See the [zigzag] line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
      Comp 2.110 6 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
      Comp 2.113 24 ...the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line...
      SL 2.151 1 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march...
      Hsm1 2.255 9 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
      OS 2.274 19 The soul's advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line...
      Int 2.326 10 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
      Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.
      Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...
      Pt1 3.13 20 Every line we can draw in the sand has expression;...
      Pt1 3.30 20 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
      Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour...
      Exp 3.65 4 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
      Exp 3.66 25 The line [a man] must walk is a hair's breadth.
      Mrs1 3.130 8 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
      Mrs1 3.145 26 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct.
      PPh 4.68 16 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
      PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
      PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line...
      SwM 4.94 5 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
      SwM 4.107 23 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
      SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
      SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
      SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
      MoS 4.170 15 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
      MoS 4.170 16 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
      ShP 4.191 6 Choose any other thing, out of the line of tendency...and [the great man] would have all to do for himself...
      ShP 4.197 13 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
      NMW 4.227 17 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
      NMW 4.233 8 Few men have any next; they...are ever at the end of their line...
      NMW 4.233 26 [Napoleon] would shorten a straight line to come at his object.
      GoW 4.287 12 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
      ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
      ET2 5.32 13 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 5.40 15 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
      ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
      ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends.
      ET5 5.86 16 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
      ET5 5.88 9 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
      ET7 5.117 20 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth. Draw a straight line, hit whom and where it will.
      ET10 5.161 23 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
      ET11 5.176 6 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
      ET11 5.180 10 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
      ET11 5.182 12 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
      ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
      ET14 5.244 23 Burke was addicted to generalizing, but his was a shorter line [than Milton's];...
      ET16 5.281 26 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
      ET16 5.281 27 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
      ET16 5.286 1 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
      ET16 5.289 20 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church;...
      Wth 6.112 17 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
      Wth 6.112 24 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
      Wsp 6.199 21 Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,/ Severing rightly [Fate' s] from thine,/ Which is human, which divine./
      Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
      Wsp 6.202 21 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
      Bty 6.294 8 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
      Bty 6.305 22 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns.
      SS 7.15 14 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.
      Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.
      Elo1 7.66 26 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe...
      DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
      OA 7.329 25 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
      PI 8.40 4 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry,--as often on a line or a phrase as on a poem,--is that it is a new work of Nature...
      Elo2 8.132 10 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
      QO 8.191 18 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
      Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
      Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
      Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the circle.
      Dem1 10.12 24 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
      Chr2 10.114 21 It is only yesterday that our American churches...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
      Supl 10.164 23 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.
      SovE 10.193 8 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice]. Settles for evermore the ponderous equator to its line...
      SovE 10.209 18 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
      Schr 10.280 14 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses; he has run to the end of his line;...
      Thor 10.475 5 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...
      Thor 10.483 11 Nature made ferns for pure leaves, to show what she could do in that line.
      War 11.158 6 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line;...
      FSLC 11.194 19 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
      FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
      EPro 11.319 18 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
      EPro 11.322 22 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire.
      EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
      SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
      SMC 11.371 26 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
      SMC 11.372 6 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
      SMC 11.372 9 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days...
      SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front, formed line of battle...
      SMC 11.373 25 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg.
      FRO2 11.487 11 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
      PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
      PLT 12.42 15 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...it were a wide prairie.
      PLT 12.50 5 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
      PLT 12.50 7 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
      Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
      Mem 12.105 27 ...each man's memory is in the line of his action.
      CInt 12.111 3 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
      CL 12.149 26 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...
      CL 12.160 14 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
      MAng1 12.215 15 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
      MLit 12.320 4 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
      EurB 12.367 27 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.
      PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.
      PPr 12.388 22 ...[Carlyle] never wrote one dull line.

    line packet, n. (1)

      Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...

    lineage, n. (1)

      HDC 11.28 2 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./

    lineal, adj. (2)

      ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
      HDC 11.30 14 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].

    lineaments, n. (3)

      Hist 2.7 13 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
      Bty 6.301 22 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
      PI 8.27 19 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

    linear, adj. (3)

      SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
      LLNE 10.366 1 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.
      CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

    lined, v. (5)

      Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages...can we separate the man from the living picture?
      AmS 1.109 19 ...we are lined with eyes;...
      Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
      ET4 5.73 21 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...
      Pow 6.81 13 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.

    linen, adj. (1)

      HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...

    linen, n. (5)

      UGM 4.8 26 The inventors of fire...linen...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
      ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen.
      ET10 5.167 16 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...
      CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
      WD 7.160 6 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!

    linen-draper, n. (1)

      ET11 5.191 23 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...

    linens, n. (1)

      DL 7.112 18 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.

    lines, n. (75)

      Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
      Nat 1.54 3 I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.
      Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
      MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
      MR 1.254 14 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
      Hist 2.30 4 [The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
      SR 2.45 4 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines...
      SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
      Fdsp 2.211 6 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will trust itself...
      Prd1 2.238 22 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...
      Art1 2.356 19 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
      Pt1 3.10 15 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 written hundreds of lines...
      Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
      UGM 4.9 8 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Euclid, of lines;...
      PPh 4.41 7 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
      PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
      PNR 4.84 27 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
      PNR 4.87 21 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
      SwM 4.107 25 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings find their place...
      ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
      ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
      ShP 4.196 2 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
      ShP 4.214 16 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they; and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece;...
      ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
      GoW 4.287 9 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
      ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
      ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
      ET1 5.22 4 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
      ET1 5.22 8 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
      ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
      ET4 5.48 23 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
      ET7 5.120 12 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...
      ET9 5.151 16 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones; but we must not insist on these accidental lines.
      F 6.9 9 The gross lines are legible to the dull;...
      Ctr 6.153 9 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
      Wsp 6.234 26 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion...perhaps on a dozen different lines.
      Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
      Bty 6.295 14 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.
      Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
      WD 7.181 2 There are no straight lines.
      WD 7.181 13 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last.
      Suc 7.283 10 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.
      PI 8.46 17 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
      PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets (measured lines not being necessary to constitute one) he did not know what poetry meant.
      PI 8.54 23 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
      PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
      PI 8.55 29 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Lovelace's lines To Althea and To Lucasta...
      PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
      QO 8.179 25 In a hundred years, millions of men, and not a hundred lines of poetry...
      QO 8.197 3 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote,-reading, as we say, between the lines.
      PC 8.225 19 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
      PPo 8.254 17 And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
      PPo 8.259 26 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
      Insp 8.278 18 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/...
      Dem1 10.10 21 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
      Dem1 10.10 22 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the lines of his face, by physiognomy;...
      Dem1 10.10 24 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology: the lines are all there, but the reader waits.
      Aris 10.53 27 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts; the iron boundary lines had all faded away;...
      Chr2 10.113 9 The lines of the religious sects are very shifting;...
      Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see...the great lines of our destiny...
      MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
      SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
      SlHr 10.443 20 [Samuel Hoar's] head, with singular grace in its lines, had a resemblance to the bust of Dante.
      Thor 10.477 8 [Thoreau's] thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own:-I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./ And still more in these religious lines...
      HDC 11.36 14 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
      HDC 11.43 24 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...town and farm lines to be run.
      HDC 11.64 2 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.
      HDC 11.64 3 In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
      EPro 11.319 10 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
      SMC 11.374 4 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth...
      CInt 12.131 20 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
      Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...
      Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
      MLit 12.319 27 ...all [Shelley's] lines are arbitrary, not necessary.
      Pray 12.354 17 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

    linger, v. (4)

      MN 1.207 26 Is it for [a man]...to linger by the wayside for opportunities?
      Comp 2.125 24 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...
      Nat2 3.196 9 The divine circulations never rest nor linger.
      MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

    lingered, v. (1)

      Mrs1 3.153 10 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.

    lingering, adj. (2)

      Lov1 2.171 5 ...we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
      FSLN 11.243 22 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.

    lingers, v. (4)

      Exp 3.45 12 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes...
      HDC 11.86 20 The benediction of [the Concord people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
      Bost 12.211 6 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
      MLit 12.310 10 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...

    linguists, n. (1)

      Grts 8.318 11 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or linguists...

    lining, n. (2)

      PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
      PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.

    link, n. (13)

      MN 1.207 12 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature...
      ET12 5.201 2 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the link of England to the learned of Europe.
      ET13 5.217 16 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
      F 6.22 12 Man is not order of nature...link in a chain...
      Pow 6.54 7 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
      Wth 6.118 18 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.
      PI 8.10 20 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
      Insp 8.273 6 With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
      Dem1 10.5 2 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
      Chr2 10.121 11 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
      Chr2 10.122 6 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
      AKan 11.260 9 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
      ACiv 11.310 4 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.

    link, v. (1)

      MMEm 10.416 16 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.

    linked, adj. (3)

      ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
      CW 12.170 12 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/ Better, the linked purpose of the whole./
      Milt1 12.261 12 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...

    linked, v. (3)

      SwM 4.96 12 ...all things in nature being linked and related...nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
      ShP 4.214 24 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
      ET2 5.25 6 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...

    links, n. (6)

      Exp 3.54 16 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
      MoS 4.175 26 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
      ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together...
      ET5 5.76 3 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...
      WD 7.165 2 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
      Insp 8.275 25 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...

    links, v. (2)

      AKan 11.262 19 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen, all made of hooks and eyes, and links himself naturally to his brothers...
      CInt 12.123 14 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...

    Linkum, Massa, n. (1)

      ALin 11.332 23 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.

    linnaea, n. (2)

      CL 12.160 17 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
      CL 12.162 7 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea, the linnaea, or sanguinaria...

    Linnaean, adj. (1)

      ET4 5.54 8 We must use the popular category, as we do the Linnaean classification, for convenience...

    Linnaeus, Carolus, n. (18)

      AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
      UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as Linnaeus, of plants;...
      SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus...was affirming...that Nature is always like herself...
      WD 7.183 10 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
      Clbs 7.238 24 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when Linnaeus was the guest of Jussieu.
      Suc 7.284 24 It is recorded of Linnaeus...that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
      Suc 7.284 26 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
      OA 7.329 4 Linnaeus projects his system...before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
      MoL 10.246 14 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...
      Plu 10.297 23 [Plutarch] is...not a naturalist, like Pliny or Linnaeus;...
      CL 12.136 14 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
      CL 12.137 19 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
      CL 12.138 1 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
      CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
      CL 12.155 3 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...
      CW 12.172 24 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
      CW 12.174 25 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.
      Bost 12.188 9 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.

    Linnaeus's, Carolus, n. (3)

      Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...
      Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Linnaeus's Diary;...
      ChiE 11.472 6 ...China...had anticipated Linnaeus's nomenclature of plants;...

    lint, n. (2)

      Ctr 6.133 5 The sufferers [from egotism]...tear the lint from their bruises...
      Cour 7.272 4 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.

    lintel, n. (1)

      ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...

    lintels, n. (1)

      SR 2.51 27 I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.

    lion, n. (14)

      Nat 1.26 18 An enraged man is a lion...
      AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...see the whelping of this lion...
      YA 1.394 9 ...in England...no man of letters, be his eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
      Art1 2.356 1 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...fills the eye not less than a lion...
      Pt1 3.16 22 ...a lion...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
      Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
      Wsp 6.199 8 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
      CbW 6.255 15 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
      Bty 6.294 7 ...Beauty rides on a lion.
      Bty 6.301 25 Still, Beauty rides on her lion, as before.
      PPo 8.238 17 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
      EWI 11.143 19 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...
      SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion;...
      CInt 12.111 6 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./

    lion-heart, n. (1)

      Schr 10.284 1 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things...

    Lion-hearted, Richard the, n (1)

      Plu 10.318 7 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur...and Richard the Lion-Hearted...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

    lions, n. (9)

      Mrs1 3.144 1 ...Fashion loves lions...
      Bhr 6.178 25 Eyes are bold as lions...
      Wsp 6.199 7 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...
      Cour 7.256 23 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions...
      PerF 10.84 23 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
      Supl 10.174 25 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
      SMC 11.368 13 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades, now and then particularizing names: Bowers, Shepard and Lauriat are as brave as lions.
      Bost 12.191 24 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
      Bost 12.192 9 The lions have never appeared [in Massachusetts] since,- nor before.

    lion's, n. (2)

      Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the lion's claw...
      ET7 5.120 26 In the power of saying rude truth, sometimes in the lion's mouth, no men surpass [the English].

    lip, n. (5)

      DL 7.127 14 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
      OA 7.320 9 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury, and the lip made up with a heroic determination not to mind it.
      PPo 8.243 1 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
      War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
      EurB 12.365 13 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution. How would Milton curl his lip at such slipshod newspaper style.

    lips, n. (39)

      Nat 1.53 17 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...
      AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
      DSA 1.129 10 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
      DSA 1.151 10 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
      LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion rises to his lips...
      LE 1.185 13 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect whereof you will seldom hear from the lips of your new companions.
      MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips...
      Tran 1.346 15 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent he should never be out of my mind, his name never far from my lips;...
      Comp 2.105 11 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags...that they do not touch him;--but the brag is on his lips...
      SL 2.157 17 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not, though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
      Fdsp 2.212 7 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until...day and night avail themselves of your lips.
      Int 2.347 9 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
      Nat2 3.194 4 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain. Alas! the same sorcery has spoiled his skill; no syllable can he shape on his lips.
      PPh 4.54 21 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
      MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...lips of persuasion... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
      Bhr 6.180 14 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!
      DL 7.103 12 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
      Boks 7.219 10 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
      Cour 7.259 7 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...what white lips they have!...
      Suc 7.304 9 What was on [the lover's] lips to say is uttered by his friend.
      OA 7.319 5 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
      PI 8.31 13 ...[the amateur] speaks with his lips and the [poet] with a chest voice.
      PI 8.43 27 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
      PPo 8.247 12 [Hafiz's] was the fluent mind in which every thought and feeling came readily to the lips.
      PPo 8.259 27 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
      PPo 8.260 7 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
      Grts 8.309 11 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power, so that not he, but mankind, seems to speak through his lips.
      Chr2 10.92 9 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he blows with his lips against the tempest...
      Chr2 10.94 17 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will, but the world utters a sound by his lips.
      Supl 10.167 4 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend, a man of guarded lips...said...I believe him capable of virtue.
      Schr 10.265 11 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
      LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...sculptured lips;...
      HDC 11.76 16 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
      Scot 11.464 10 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides, and written down from their lips by antiquaries;...
      PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
      II 12.69 21 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?
      Mem 12.97 19 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
      MLit 12.334 7 There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.
      EurB 12.369 14 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.

    liquid, adj. (6)

      Int 2.333 24 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
      ET2 5.26 25 The good ship darts through the water...gliding through liquid leagues...
      ET14 5.257 10 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.
      Bhr 6.180 22 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...
      DL 7.103 17 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child,--the face all liquid grief...soften all hearts to pity...
      Shak1 11.448 7 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.

    liquid, n. (3)

      Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...melt it to liquid...it will always weigh a pound;...
      UGM 4.10 10 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
      Cour 7.267 9 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts, for he never tasted any liquid but pure water.

    liquidate, v. (1)

      Cir 2.316 19 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.

    liquidation, n. (1)

      DL 7.115 6 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.

    liquor, adj. (1)

      SlHr 10.447 8 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

    liquor, n. (6)

      Hsm1 2.255 1 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
      Wth 6.126 9 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
      Bhr 6.177 11 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
      Aris 10.43 11 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
      SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by liquor, since we came here.
      II 12.81 10 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought...

    liquors, n. (1)

      Wom 11.420 15 On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

    Lisbon, Portugal, n. (2)

      ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...
      F 6.7 18 At Lisbon an earthquake killed men like flies.

    list, n. (17)

      Chr1 3.103 26 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
      Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
      GoW 4.270 2 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
      ET12 5.199 2 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
      Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
      Civ 7.21 9 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
      Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
      Boks 7.209 3 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled...
      Elo2 8.126 14 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
      Res 8.153 15 I have not...gone beyond the beginning of my list [of Resources].
      PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
      FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
      Wom 11.423 19 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
      PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature; and I add a rude list of some by-laws of the mind.
      Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
      ACri 12.293 12 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...
      Trag 12.408 24 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.

    listen, v. (34)

      MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
      MN 1.207 3 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
      MN 1.209 23 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
      LT 1.269 27 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to...drive all neutrals...to listen to the argument and the verdict.
      OS 2.294 23 [Man] must greatly listen to himself...
      Art1 2.356 4 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen...
      Art1 2.362 17 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.
      NER 3.285 21 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...
      ET7 5.125 8 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
      Pow 6.75 25 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.
      Ctr 6.151 7 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Epaminondas, who never says anything, but will listen eternally;...
      Wsp 6.217 1 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
      Elo1 7.68 20 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.
      Elo1 7.83 17 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
      Elo1 7.85 18 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...
      WD 7.179 11 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...
      Clbs 7.232 23 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
      Clbs 7.232 24 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
      PI 8.45 2 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;... they speak to us, and we listen with surprise to what they say.
      PI 8.57 11 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian...
      SA 8.79 4 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend.
      SA 8.106 18 Listen to every prompting of honor.
      Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
      Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
      PerF 10.81 16 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...
      PerF 10.87 26 ...legislatures listen with appetite to declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.
      SovE 10.200 21 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
      LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
      MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse, listen to all its faults amd mark its power...
      MMEm 10.408 16 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child.
      CInt 12.112 2 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
      CInt 12.130 3 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
      ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
      PPr 12.384 11 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear. Though they die, they must listen.

    listened, v. (24)

      AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
      Pt1 3.10 19 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 written hundreds of lines, but...could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea. How gladly we listened!...
      Chr1 3.89 1 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
      Chr1 3.106 1 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law...
      NER 3.273 8 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
      SwM 4.140 22 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who, by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the celestial currents...
      MoS 4.165 25 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
      NMW 4.255 21 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
      NMW 4.256 2 It does not appear that [Napoleon] listened at key-holes...
      ET16 5.286 7 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
      Bhr 6.190 17 A man already strong is listened to...
      Bty 6.298 7 We talk to [women] and wish to be listened to;...
      Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
      Clbs 7.242 1 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
      SovE 10.200 22 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
      LLNE 10.348 27 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
      LLNE 10.351 18 Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
      EzRy 10.392 9 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
      Thor 10.459 18 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
      FSLN 11.226 12 [Webster] listened to State reasons and hopes...
      FSLN 11.242 13 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
      EPro 11.317 6 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
      FRO1 11.477 8 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
      ACri 12.288 18 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of the Sacre! of the French postilion...

    listener, n. (3)

      ShP 4.219 11 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
      Elo1 7.92 2 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
      Elo2 8.114 25 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...

    listeners, n. (2)

      Imtl 8.345 24 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;...
      LLNE 10.346 20 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...

    listener's, n. (1)

      Elo1 7.59 9 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...

    listening, adj. (1)

      MN 1.208 18 Why then goest thou as some Boswell or listening worshipper to this saint or to that?

    listening, v. (12)

      AmS 1.102 22 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
      SL 2.139 12 ...by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
      Exp 3.82 4 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.
      NER 3.271 16 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him...
      MoS 4.168 14 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
      ET4 5.64 16 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
      ET13 5.218 17 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride.
      Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
      Elo2 8.117 23 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
      Insp 8.268 6 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
      SovE 10.200 19 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.
      PLT 12.3 3 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

    listens, v. (6)

      DSA 1.139 6 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
      SwM 4.142 23 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
      Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens...
      PI 8.17 1 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
      PI 8.30 5 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
      Grts 8.307 8 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

    listeth, v. (2)

      PI 8.62 2 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her: she cometh when she listeth, for her will is here.
      Imtl 8.350 13 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth.

    listlessly, adv. (1)

      LE 1.167 27 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets...

    lists, n. (10)

      Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
      Tran 1.346 3 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
      Fdsp 2.202 4 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...
      Pt1 3.17 27 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
      Pol1 3.217 12 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
      PPh 4.56 20 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
      ET1 5.8 19 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
      ET10 5.160 13 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
      Schr 10.286 23 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship].
      Milt1 12.255 24 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].

    lit, v. (1)

      Insp 8.268 10 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

    Litchfield County, Connecti (1)

      JBS 11.277 16 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.

    literal, adj. (10)

      Con 1.302 21 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude...
      Hist 2.33 4 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
      Pt1 3.38 16 Milton is too literary, and Homer too literal and historical.
      SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
      SwM 4.120 5 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
      Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
      PI 8.12 5 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
      PI 8.43 24 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry, in the literal sense of the term...
      Supl 10.167 13 The English mind...likes literal statement;...
      ACiv 11.299 26 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.

    literalist, n. (1)

      SwM 4.121 18 [Nature] is no literalist.

    literalists, n. (2)

      Ctr 6.140 13 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
      Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...

    literally, adv. (4)

      Nat2 3.196 4 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
      SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.
      WD 7.180 21 The world is enigmatical...and must not be taken literally...
      Let 12.400 6 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he passes for...

    literalness, n. (1)

      Elo2 8.127 5 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...

    literary, adj. (111)

      AmS 1.81 2 I greet you on the recommencement of our literary year.
      AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
      AmS 1.112 20 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
      LE 1.155 4 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
      LE 1.164 10 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power...and he is piqued.
      LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
      LE 1.176 26 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
      MN 1.191 2 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
      MN 1.193 14 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
      MN 1.197 26 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
      MR 1.242 12 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
      LT 1.269 6 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
      Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
      Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
      SL 2.154 3 There is no luck in literary reputation.
      OS 2.287 6 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
      OS 2.288 5 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
      Cir 2.308 25 ...there is not any literary reputation...that may not be revised and condemned.
      Pt1 3.38 15 Milton is too literary...
      Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one time great, and another time small...
      Chr1 3.104 27 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]!
      Mrs1 3.129 26 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence, as a patriotic, a literary, a religious movement, and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
      Mrs1 3.153 7 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the literary or scientific circle...
      NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power...of literary art...
      NER 3.270 7 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...
      UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
      PPh 4.59 12 ...[Plato] abounds in the surprises of a literary master.
      PPh 4.75 27 [Plato] is intellectual in his aim; and therefore, in expression, literary.
      PPh 4.76 3 ...expounding...the hope of the parting soul,--[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
      SwM 4.111 18 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
      SwM 4.123 23 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
      SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.
      MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
      NMW 4.229 1 [Napoleon] is never weak and literary...
      NMW 4.249 21 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
      GoW 4.269 2 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
      GoW 4.270 2 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
      GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
      ET1 5.4 21 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
      ET6 5.114 13 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news;...
      ET14 5.237 17 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
      ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
      ET14 5.251 11 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
      ET14 5.252 14 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
      ET15 5.264 14 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question...
      ET17 5.295 3 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
      ET17 5.297 5 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
      ET19 5.312 5 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
      Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
      Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...
      Wth 6.124 12 The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit;...
      Wth 6.125 25 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras,--literary, emotive, practical,--of its life...
      DL 7.110 3 ...a scholar is a literary foundation.
      DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
      WD 7.181 23 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat...for money;...
      Boks 7.220 22 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
      Suc 7.283 22 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
      Suc 7.297 14 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results?
      OA 7.315 8 [Josiah Quincy]...gracefully claiming the privileges of a literary society, entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
      OA 7.319 13 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
      OA 7.319 15 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
      OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
      PC 8.219 11 Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities...
      Insp 8.276 1 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
      Insp 8.296 2 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
      Insp 8.296 24 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
      Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
      Chr2 10.105 1 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
      Supl 10.169 13 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
      Prch 10.228 22 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
      Schr 10.265 16 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
      Schr 10.266 19 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
      Schr 10.279 14 ...the young...looking around them...at religious and literary teachers and teaching,-finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
      Schr 10.283 26 The scholar...is unfurnished who has only literary weapons.
      Schr 10.287 10 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
      Plu 10.300 8 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
      LLNE 10.328 20 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
      LLNE 10.335 13 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 10.335 18 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
      LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
      SlHr 10.445 13 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius nor of a literary nor an executive talent.
      Thor 10.451 9 [Thoreau] was graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary distinction.
      Thor 10.482 9 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought and feeling, but for their power of description and literary excellence...
      Carl 10.493 19 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
      Carl 10.494 11 [Carlyle] hates a literary trifler...
      FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
      FSLN 11.242 5 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
      FSLN 11.242 26 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
      HCom 11.343 26 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
      EdAd 11.391 3 There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.
      SHC 11.433 13 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
      Shak1 11.447 5 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
      Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
      Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
      Scot 11.467 26 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors...
      ChiE 11.473 20 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
      PLT 12.7 10 Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me satisfaction?
      PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.
      II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius!
      CInt 12.117 2 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
      Bost 12.186 19 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
      Milt1 12.247 4 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
      Milt1 12.253 15 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
      Milt1 12.271 25 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty...
      WSL 12.342 22 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.
      WSL 12.345 14 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men, or literary men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
      WSL 12.346 12 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
      AgMs 12.360 21 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men.
      EurB 12.365 2 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
      PPr 12.383 27 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
      PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits...

    Literary Ethics, n. (1)

      LE 1.158 3 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.

    Literary Gazettes, n. (1)

      EurB 12.369 12 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

    literary, n. (1)

      Schr 10.261 10 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.

    Literary Societies, n. (1)

      MoL 10.241 1 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...

    Literature, American, n. (2)

      Let 12.404 12 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.
      Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

    literature, n. (170)

      Nat 1.53 22 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
      AmS 1.87 13 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed.
      AmS 1.91 6 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me witness.
      AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
      AmS 1.111 1 The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child...are the topics of the time.
      DSA 1.143 21 Literature becomes frivolous.
      LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
      LE 1.167 9 Say rather all literature is yet to be written.
      MN 1.211 5 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
      MN 1.221 12 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
      MN 1.221 16 [The intellect] will burn up all profane literature...as in a moment of time.
      MR 1.228 19 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state, literature or history...
      MR 1.242 9 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
      LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
      LT 1.283 11 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
      Tran 1.333 12 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
      Tran 1.342 4 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...
      Hist 2.7 10 All literature writes the character of the wise man.
      Hist 2.14 23 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature...
      Hist 2.17 16 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
      Hist 2.25 19 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons speak simply...
      Hist 2.29 25 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature...
      Comp 2.106 9 [The human soul] finds a tongue in literature unawares.
      Comp 2.109 1 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of reason...
      SL 2.145 3 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
      Fdsp 2.215 21 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall regret the lost literature of your mind...
      Hsm1 2.248 14 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
      OS 2.291 2 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
      Cir 2.311 27 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
      Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
      Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
      Int 2.346 12 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
      Exp 3.47 18 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas...
      Exp 3.64 26 Expediency of literature...is questioned;...
      Exp 3.64 26 ...reason of literature...is questioned;...
      Exp 3.76 7 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
      Chr1 3.106 12 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment;...
      Mrs1 3.120 25 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
      Nat2 3.177 25 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...
      Nat2 3.189 10 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
      NR 3.232 17 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
      PPh 4.45 14 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
      SwM 4.103 8 One of the missouriums and mastodons of literature, [Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
      SwM 4.117 24 ...literature has no book in which the symbolism of things is scientifically opened.
      MoS 4.165 4 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners, of a literature addressed equally to both sexes, do not allow.
      ShP 4.196 15 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day].
      ShP 4.197 16 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
      ShP 4.198 11 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
      ShP 4.204 6 ...[Shakespeare] is the father of German literature...
      ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
      ShP 4.204 14 Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized.
      GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
      GoW 4.277 10 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
      ET1 5.17 11 [Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment;...
      ET4 5.55 17 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages...
      ET5 5.93 9 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
      ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities.
      ET8 5.142 17 [The English] are intellectual and deeply enjoy literature;...
      ET13 5.223 19 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money...in buying Pugin and architectural literature.
      ET13 5.223 26 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
      ET14 5.245 9 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
      ET14 5.245 16 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
      ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
      ET14 5.252 19 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
      ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
      Ctr 6.133 25 Religious literature has eminent examples [of egotism]...
      Ctr 6.155 10 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
      Ctr 6.164 17 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
      Bhr 6.191 20 Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature.
      CbW 6.272 11 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
      SS 7.10 25 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law. Nor is the rule otherwise for literature.
      Elo1 7.71 5 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
      Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
      Boks 7.197 15 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
      Boks 7.199 8 Here [in Plato] is that which is so attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call it?...
      Boks 7.202 26 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
      Boks 7.203 26 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
      Boks 7.211 18 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
      Boks 7.220 24 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
      Suc 7.292 22 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation;...
      PI 8.6 1 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
      PI 8.35 23 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
      PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
      PI 8.53 23 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
      PI 8.63 6 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
      PI 8.65 15 ...in current literature I do not find [Nature].
      PI 8.65 15 Literature warps away from life...
      PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust] is a very disagreeable chapter of literature...
      Comc 8.160 12 [The disparity between the rule and the fact] is the radical joke of life and then of literature.
      Comc 8.164 22 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
      Comc 8.168 13 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science].
      QO 8.178 3 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
      QO 8.180 4 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
      QO 8.182 5 Religious literature, the psalms and liturgies of churches, are... of this slow growth...
      QO 8.186 1 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.
      QO 8.188 1 Is all literature eaves-dropping...
      QO 8.189 4 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
      QO 8.189 22 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?
      QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
      QO 8.195 18 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature.
      PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
      Insp 8.294 15 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
      Imtl 8.346 16 Not by literature or theology...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
      PerF 10.82 4 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own.
      Edc1 10.141 17 The obscure youth learns [in solitude] the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
      Edc1 10.149 16 ...in literature, the young man who has taste for poetry...is insatiable for this nourishment...
      MoL 10.256 8 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature.
      Schr 10.265 3 [Poets] have no toleration for literature;...
      Schr 10.266 16 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
      Schr 10.273 5 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.
      Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
      LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
      LLNE 10.338 22 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
      LLNE 10.342 16 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
      LLNE 10.363 20 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight], who has presided over its literature ever since in our metropolis.
      EzRy 10.394 24 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon, for he had no literature and no art;...
      Thor 10.451 10 An iconoclast in literature, [Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
      FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...
      FSLN 11.224 5 ...there is...not an aphorism that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
      Wom 11.423 17 The fairest names in this country in literature, in law, have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
      RBur 11.441 8 The people who care nothing for literature and poetry care for Burns.
      Humb 11.458 15 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
      Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
      CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
      CPL 11.501 22 ...literature is the record of the best thoughts.
      FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
      PLT 12.13 20 I want not the logic, but the power, if any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
      II 12.78 13 ...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
      CInt 12.115 1 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not.
      CInt 12.127 13 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...
      CInt 12.128 22 If your college and your literature are not felt, it is because the truth is not in them.
      Milt1 12.248 6 There is no name in English literature between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his own.
      Milt1 12.256 16 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
      ACri 12.283 1 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
      ACri 12.283 5 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...
      ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
      ACri 12.300 12 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
      ACri 12.302 27 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
      ACri 12.303 14 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm...
      ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
      MLit 12.310 3 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
      MLit 12.310 16 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
      MLit 12.311 8 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
      MLit 12.311 12 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
      MLit 12.312 1 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
      MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
      MLit 12.313 22 ...the single soul feels its right...itself to sit in judgment on history and literature...
      MLit 12.317 2 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression.
      MLit 12.320 12 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature...
      MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
      MLit 12.333 3 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
      MLit 12.334 1 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.
      MLit 12.334 12 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
      WSL 12.340 1 A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.
      WSL 12.341 3 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
      WSL 12.341 20 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
      WSL 12.346 19 [Landor's] position is by no means the highest in literature...
      WSL 12.346 25 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
      WSL 12.348 25 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature;...
      EurB 12.369 3 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
      EurB 12.373 26 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it...is always reappearing in literature.
      EurB 12.374 25 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
      PPr 12.383 16 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
      PPr 12.389 26 We have in literature few specimens of magnificence.
      PPr 12.390 14 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature;...
      PPr 12.390 22 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.
      PPr 12.391 7 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle.
      Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
      Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...
      Trag 12.408 11 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind, and of tragedy in literature.

    Literature, n. (1)

      LLNE 10.325 15 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

    literatures, n. (8)

      LE 1.159 10 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
      MN 1.218 13 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions...
      Cir 2.305 12 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave...all the literatures of the nations...
      Cir 2.311 17 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations...
      PPh 4.39 7 ...[Plato's sentences] are the fountain-head of literatures.
      GoW 4.272 4 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
      Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
      MoL 10.253 7 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.

    literature's, n. (1)

      Prd1 2.224 11 [The spurious prudence, making the senses final] is nature's joke, and therefore literature's.

    lithe, adj. (1)

      ET14 5.237 9 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...

    litheness, n. (1)

      ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.

    lithography, n. (1)

      ChiE 11.472 5 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals;...

    litigation, n. (1)

      YA 1.385 24 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference, and not by litigation.

    litmus, n. (1)

      Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test, like blue litmus or other chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.

    litter, n. (1)

      Art1 2.356 5 A dog, drawn by a master, or a litter of pigs, satisfies...

    littered, v. (1)

      Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.

    litters, n. (1)

      SL 2.152 21 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition. The sick would be carried in litters.

    little, adj. (302)

      Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
      Nat 1.28 13 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
      Nat 1.28 26 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor...then all its habits... become sublime.
      Nat 1.28 27 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be...a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits...become sublime.
      Nat 1.37 10 ...what rejoicing over us of little men;...
      Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
      AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
      DSA 1.148 7 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence...
      LE 1.172 3 LE 1.172 21 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
      LE 1.186 15 Be content with a little light, so it be your own.
      MN 1.196 19 ...a man lasts but a very little while...
      MR 1.249 25 The Americans have little faith.
      LT 1.266 23 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...
      LT 1.278 10 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than...a little breath of your mouth?
      LT 1.280 14 I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical.
      LT 1.283 24 So little action amidst such audacious and yet sincere profession...
      LT 1.285 4 ...have a little patience with this melancholy humor.
      Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
      Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
      Tran 1.353 15 So little skill enters into these works...that it really signifies little what we do...
      Tran 1.353 22 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
      YA 1.368 4 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
      YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do] would yield.
      SR 2.57 17 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
      SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...
      SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
      SR 2.59 4 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of...at a little height of thought.
      Comp 2.101 21 The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.
      Comp 2.117 25 A great man is always willing to be little.
      SL 2.135 25 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
      SL 2.138 21 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;......
      Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
      Lov1 2.173 14 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
      Lov1 2.184 26 Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine.
      Fdsp 2.204 23 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
      Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
      Prd1 2.221 2 What right have I to write on Prudence, whereof I have little...
      Prd1 2.234 18 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of the tool...
      Prd1 2.234 19 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...little portions of time...
      Hsm1 2.251 19 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act, until after some little time be past;...
      Hsm1. 2.252 19 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...
      Hsm1. 2.252 24 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
      Hsm1. 2.252 25 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
      Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
      OS 2.276 6 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty;...
      OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a phial...
      Cir 2.302 27 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
      Int 2.328 26 We have little control over our thoughts.
      Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish, a little way from the ground or the water;...
      Pt1 3.19 19 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
      Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
      Exp 3.43 14 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
      Exp 3.81 4 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
      Exp 3.85 19 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
      Mrs1 3.131 11 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
      Mrs1 3.135 9 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens, which are of eminent convenience, whether the guest is too great or too little.
      Mrs1 3.149 7 A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature...
      Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures...
      Nat2 3.172 26 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
      Nat2 3.179 20 A little heat, that is a little motion, is all that differences the... cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
      Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
      Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
      Nat2 3.185 5 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
      Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
      Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
      NR 3.228 7 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
      NER 3.261 8 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
      NER 3.266 27 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
      NER 3.268 9 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
      NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
      UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
      UGM 4.10 17 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
      UGM 4.18 6 Little minds are little through failure to see [the laws of identity and of reaction].
      UGM 4.22 2 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties...but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
      UGM 4.23 23 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
      PPh 4.68 9 We can define but a little way;...
      PNR 4.89 23 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
      SwM 4.114 13 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
      SwM 4.114 15 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...
      SwM 4.114 16 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues; those of the stomach, little stomachs;...
      SwM 4.114 17 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...those of the heart, little hearts.
      SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
      SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.
      MoS 4.152 11 No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
      MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
      MoS 4.166 7 ...[Montaigne] will indulge himself with a little cursing and swearing;...
      MoS 4.177 9 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.
      NMW 4.223 12 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...the kidney, of little kidneys, etc.
      NMW 4.223 17 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if Napoleon is Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
      GoW 4.275 23 It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe] writes upon.
      ET1 5.16 11 ...[Carlyle] still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet...
      ET2 5.30 13 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
      ET3 5.37 16 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
      ET3 5.42 22 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...
      ET6 5.102 17 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
      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...
      ET9 5.148 5 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
      ET9 5.148 17 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character, since a little man would be ruined by the vexation.
      ET10 5.158 9 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved...
      ET11 5.194 2 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
      ET12 5.205 18 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...
      ET14 5.245 5 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...
      ET14 5.249 25 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
      ET16 5.274 4 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
      ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...
      ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
      ET16 5.282 13 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
      ET16 5.286 15 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood...
      ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
      F 6.11 4 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...
      F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...
      F 6.29 15 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
      Pow 6.55 9 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins.
      Pow 6.66 17 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...
      Pow 6.70 21 The luxury of fire is to have a little on our hearth;...
      Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
      Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
      Ctr 6.135 11 Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
      Ctr 6.144 15 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
      Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint;...
      Ctr 6.152 2 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
      Ctr 6.154 22 A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
      Ctr 6.157 21 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just. And the poor little poet hearkens only to that...
      Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
      Bhr 6.189 11 A little integrity is better than any career.
      Wsp 6.212 9 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
      Wsp 6.222 12 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...
      Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
      Wsp 6.229 25 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make...
      Wsp 6.237 5 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street.
      CbW 6.246 8 'T is little we can do for each other.
      CbW 6.250 24 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
      CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...
      CbW 6.275 3 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
      Bty 6.288 9 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
      Bty 6.296 18 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm...
      Civ 7.29 22 We are dapper little busybodies...
      Civ 7.32 8 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
      Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
      Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me of little use for the most part to those who have it...
      DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his little arms more irresistible than the soldier's...
      DL 7.103 20 The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side.
      DL 7.103 22 ...[the child's] little sins [are] more bewitching than any virtue.
      DL 7.104 5 ...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.
      DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
      DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
      DL 7.107 1 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
      Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
      Farm 7.148 20 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it...
      WD 7.166 10 Here are great arts and little men.
      Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.
      Clbs 7.225 4 We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no reaction.
      Cour 7.257 3 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo...bites fiercely;...
      Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
      Cour 7.265 5 ...men with little imagination are less fearful;...
      Cour 7.275 19 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...
      Cour 7.278 5 A little Indian boy/ Followed [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
      Suc 7.296 7 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
      Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
      Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
      Suc 7.310 27 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine' s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
      OA 7.324 23 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
      OA 7.329 9 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
      PI 8.4 20 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
      PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...does not like to be practised upon...
      PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
      PI 8.45 13 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
      PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little account...
      PI 8.57 8 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
      PI 8.64 4 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
      SA 8.84 27 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
      SA 8.102 6 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
      SA 8.103 25 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
      SA 8.105 22 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...
      Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
      Elo2 8.127 15 ...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...
      Res 8.141 4 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...
      Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
      Res 8.149 1 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.
      Res 8.151 18 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature...
      QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
      PC 8.223 26 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
      Insp 8.288 4 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
      Insp 8.297 2 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who needed only a little wealth.
      Grts 8.319 5 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
      Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
      Imtl 8.326 4 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
      Aris 10.37 17 We like cool people...on whom events make little or no impression...
      PerF 10.74 17 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
      PerF 10.80 27 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
      PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
      PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
      Edc1 10.135 15 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself...
      Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...
      Edc1 10.157 17 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit...
      Edc1 10.158 6 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
      Supl 10.166 5 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams...
      SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
      SovE 10.205 9 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
      Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our feet walk in the streets of a little town...
      MoL 10.245 24 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
      MoL 10.256 5 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
      Schr 10.276 22 How many young geniuses we have known, and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
      Schr 10.278 9 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...
      Schr 10.278 13 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...and how little thought operates how great an effect, one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
      LLNE 10.336 9 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet...
      LLNE 10.340 8 A poor little invalid all his life, [Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
      LLNE 10.342 5 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke.
      LLNE 10.343 14 From that time meetings were held for conversation, with very little form...
      EzRy 10.383 24 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little box under the pulpit...
      EzRy 10.388 10 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
      MMEm 10.400 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day...
      MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
      MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
      MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society alone...
      MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
      SlHr 10.441 23 [Samuel Hoar] had little or no power of generalization.
      SlHr 10.446 25 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town...
      Thor 10.455 8 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
      Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
      Thor 10.483 25 A little thought is sexton to all the world.
      HDC 11.29 22 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
      HDC 11.34 8 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves, their wives and little ones...
      HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not much to spare...must be laborious to all...
      HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
      HDC 11.38 25 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
      HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
      HDC 11.44 11 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
      HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
      HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty.
      HDC 11.73 19 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
      HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
      EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one.
      EWI 11.123 24 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were...less energetic shopkeepers than we; who had very little skill in trade.
      EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
      EWI 11.133 5 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
      War 11.154 23 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large.
      War 11.175 12 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
      FSLC 11.179 3 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
      FSLC 11.210 27 Massachusetts is a little state: countries have been great by ideas.
      FSLC 11.211 1 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
      FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
      FSLC 11.211 12 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
      FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
      FSLN 11.242 23 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
      AKan 11.258 14 I own I have little esteem for governments.
      AKan 11.260 3 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
      AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
      ACiv 11.298 22 All the little hopes that heretofore made the year pleasant are deferred.
      ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
      ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race...
      HCom 11.343 15 Here in this little Massachusetts...[enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
      HCom 11.343 16 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
      HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
      SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
      EdAd 11.386 6 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
      Wom 11.409 8 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
      Shak1 11.448 1 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary.]
      Shak1 11.448 11 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
      Shak1 11.450 24 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
      FRO1 11.477 4 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
      FRO1 11.480 27 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
      CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
      CPL 11.503 15 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
      FRep 11.543 24 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...
      PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
      PLT 12.16 17 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank.
      PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
      PLT 12.20 10 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
      PLT 12.49 17 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...and plenteous stopping at little stations?
      PLT 12.50 11 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in effect is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.
      PLT 12.63 4 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
      Mem 12.107 19 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget. A little thought is sexton to all the world.
      CInt 12.120 17 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you, and you become little among the Grecians;...
      CInt 12.124 23 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results; and a little violence must be done to private genius to accomplish this.
      CInt 12.125 15 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education, and not falling into the system and the little parties in the convent...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
      CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...
      CL 12.139 27 ...a little coal indoors, during much of the year, and thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
      CL 12.143 10 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
      CW 12.172 13 Little joy has he who has no garden, said Saadi.
      CW 12.174 6 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that...even the trees make little speeches or hint them.
      Bost 12.187 2 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
      Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population, where is little elegance and no facility;... you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
      Bost 12.197 15 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
      Bost 12.201 12 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
      Bost 12.201 15 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear...in the yard of the dame's school, from very little republicans: I ' m as good as you be...
      Bost 12.209 4 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...
      Bost 12.211 10 Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks [Boston];...
      MAng1 12.215 8 ...in [Michelangelo's] greatness was so little eccentricity... that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
      MAng1 12.228 8 A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's] nourishment;...
      Milt1 12.250 12 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].
      ACri 12.287 27 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!
      ACri 12.294 21 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought;...
      MLit 12.326 26 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in literature, [Goethe] has very little.
      WSL 12.341 5 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition to profound thought...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
      Pray 12.355 8 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;...
      EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
      PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.
      PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
      Trag 12.407 15 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

    little, adv. (178)

      LE 1.184 22 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
      Con 1.299 13 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles, they will fail me, I must bend a little;...
      Tran 1.351 27 ...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
      Tran 1.353 16 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
      Tran 1.353 17 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
      Tran 1.354 26 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
      YA 1.389 9 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation;...
      SR 2.85 14 ...the equinox [the man in the street] knows as little;...
      SL 2.150 9 ...the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us;...
      Lov1 2.178 5 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
      Lov1 2.184 11 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
      Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.
      Prd1 2.237 18 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
      Hsm1 2.251 16 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.
      Hsm1 2.257 20 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
      Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer...
      Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
      Exp 3.46 2 Ah that our Genius were a little more of a genius!
      Exp 3.61 22 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
      Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
      Exp 3.69 27 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken.
      Chr1 3.100 7 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
      Mrs1 3.141 11 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion. All his information is a little impertinent.
      Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
      Nat2 3.185 19 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
      Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in which they are rightest...
      NR 3.242 27 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight...
      UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
      PPh 4.46 2 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
      PPh 4.71 25 [Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
      PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
      SwM 4.100 26 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
      SwM 4.133 26 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
      MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
      MoS 4.173 14 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.
      ShP 4.196 23 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...
      NMW 4.238 12 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
      NMW 4.246 21 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
      NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit...
      ET2 5.26 3 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment...when I was a little spent by some unusual studies.
      ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate...
      ET3 5.37 10 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years;...
      ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...a little overloaded by his flesh.
      ET5 5.74 12 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically...
      ET5 5.84 18 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a commoner.
      ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
      ET11 5.172 3 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
      ET11 5.188 18 In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar... without so much as a new layer of dust...
      ET15 5.262 5 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may, or it may be a little later, but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
      ET15 5.262 6 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...a little sooner or later, these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
      ET16 5.273 11 I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
      ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere, which vary a little from true east and west, followed the variations of the compass.
      ET17 5.293 12 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England], with persons little known.
      ET19 5.313 15 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day...
      F 6.7 3 The way of Providence is a little rude.
      F 6.35 7 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel. That is a little overstated-but may pass.
      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 6.55 3 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
      Wth 6.107 21 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
      Ctr 6.140 22 We are always a little late.
      Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more capricious than he was.
      Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...
      Bhr 6.175 26 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed, it piped;--little cared he;...
      CbW 6.260 17 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring...
      CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
      CbW 6.276 7 If you are proposing only your own, the other party must deal a little hardly by you.
      Bty 6.293 18 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
      Bty 6.296 20 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
      Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
      Civ 7.19 19 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
      Elo1 7.76 11 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...
      DL 7.121 27 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
      DL 7.125 1 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
      WD 7.163 26 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful.
      WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...a little more or less stone, or wood, or paint...
      WD 7.180 25 Cannot we be a little abstemious and obedient?
      Boks 7.203 9 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
      Boks 7.215 11 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
      Clbs 7.234 20 ...to come a little nearer to my mark, I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
      Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...
      Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
      Suc 7.299 27 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? a little more or less signifies nothing.
      OA 7.321 4 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
      PI 8.28 10 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul is released a little from its passion...we call its action Fancy.
      PI 8.48 9 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
      PI 8.48 10 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
      PI 8.67 20 We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
      PI 8.67 23 We must be a little strict also, and ask whether, if we sit down at home, and do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
      PI 8.69 6 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible.
      PI 8.69 7 I find Faust a little too modern and intelligible. We can find such a fabric at several mills, though a little inferior.
      PI 8.72 21 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account.
      SA 8.85 7 ...work and starve a little longer.
      SA 8.97 7 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who must be kept down and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
      SA 8.103 18 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
      Elo2 8.120 27 A singer cares little for the words of the song;...
      Res 8.146 6 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
      PC 8.220 1 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
      Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
      Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
      Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
      PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal...
      PerF 10.86 17 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
      Chr2 10.91 15 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things,-that sounds a little cold and scholastic,-no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
      Chr2 10.93 9 If from these external statements we seek to come a little nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
      Chr 10.116 27 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
      Edc1 10.148 27 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
      Supl 10.164 16 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
      Supl 10.168 23 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
      Supl 10.171 4 ...I had been present, a little before, in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
      SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
      SovE 10.210 25 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous, and that he should like to lift it a little...
      Schr 10.264 17 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
      Schr 10.276 19 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons; a little pure, and not too much, to every head.
      Schr 10.277 27 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
      Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
      LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
      LLNE 10.344 16 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached; little cared he.
      MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
      MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
      Thor 10.456 9 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;...
      Thor 10.468 2 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
      Thor 10.473 7 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
      LS 11.11 4 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
      HDC 11.61 1 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
      EWI 11.139 9 [The steam of human affairs...is very little affected by the activity of legislators.
      War 11.159 23 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
      War 11.166 17 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
      FSLC 11.180 23 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
      FSLC 11.186 15 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
      FSLC 11.196 13 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
      FSLC 11.209 7 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
      FSLN 11.220 1 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...
      FSLN 11.221 19 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
      FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
      FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
      FSLN 11.231 9 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
      AsSu 11.249 21 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North...
      JBS 11.276 23 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
      JBS 11.277 6 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
      JBS 11.277 8 Everything that is said of [John Brown] leaves people a little dissatisfied;...
      JBS 11.278 27 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
      JBS 11.280 13 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
      TPar 11.287 1 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
      TPar 11.287 5 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
      TPar 11.288 17 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
      TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
      CPL 11.496 12 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
      FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
      PLT 12.22 18 Is it not a little startling to see with what genius some people take to hunting...
      PLT 12.25 18 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius;...
      PLT 12.50 26 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
      PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.
      PLT 12.55 8 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true.
      II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
      II 12.72 10 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
      II 12.87 12 Obedience to its genius (to speak a little scholastically) is the particular of faith;...
      CInt 12.121 16 A little finer order...commands centuries of facts...
      CInt 12.124 25 ...genius...must be a little impatient and rebellious to this rule [of classification in college]...
      CL 12.158 15 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...
      CL 12.166 3 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.
      CL 12.166 4 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.
      CW 12.171 4 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...
      CW 12.177 24 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
      Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...
      Bost 12.201 5 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
      Bost 12.202 3 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.
      Bost 12.210 7 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
      Milt1 12.248 15 In his lifetime, [Milton] was little or not at all known as a poet...
      AgMs 12.364 1 I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff and inconvertible in his own opinions...
      EurB 12.372 15 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful...
      EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid castigation...
      Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...
      Let 12.393 19 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf, until they be a little older;...
      Let 12.397 6 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny, and a little faithless...
      Let 12.399 20 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...
      Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings.

    Little, Mrs., n. (1)

      CSC 10.375 19 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...

    little, n. (47)

      Nat 1.69 1 [Man] is in little all the sphere./
      LT 1.266 2 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.
      YA 1.368 19 In America we have hitherto little to boast in this kind [of beautiful gardens].
      Fdsp 2.205 5 I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
      Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me.
      Fdsp 2.213 18 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
      Prd1 2.232 12 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
      Art1 2.369 3 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
      Pt1 3.40 1 What a little of all we know is said!
      Exp 3.84 19 To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.
      PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
      PNR 4.82 24 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;...
      SwM 4.106 18 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;...
      MoS 4.179 3 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little...
      ET19 5.312 21 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long...
      ET19 5.312 22 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action;...
      F 6.19 18 ...'t was little [the drowning men] could do for one another;...
      F 6.27 2 Once we were stepping a little this way and a little that way;...
      Pow 6.77 5 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases where little can be said, and much must be done.
      Wth 6.102 20 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
      Ctr 6.152 4 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
      Bhr 6.167 13 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/...
      CbW 6.243 11 Who has little, to him who has less, can spare/...
      Farm 7.139 2 ...little by little, [Nature] achieves her work.
      Boks 7.200 10 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
      Boks 7.202 12 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
      Suc 7.284 10 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
      Suc 7.294 15 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
      OA 7.325 14 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
      PI 8.71 6 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.
      Comc 8.162 6 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow men can do little for him.
      QO 8.184 24 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
      QO 8.184 25 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
      Imtl 8.331 24 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul and other intellectual questions, and cared for little else.
      Chr2 10.89 5 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./
      Edc1 10.156 19 Say little; do not snarl; do not chide;...
      Schr 10.269 1 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn that you have little to tell them;...
      Schr 10.275 2 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
      Plu 10.309 22 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
      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.
      CPL 11.501 19 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
      PLT 12.14 10 ...this watching of the mind...to see the mechanics of the thing, is a little of the detective.
      PLT 12.34 13 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say.
      II 12.65 16 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say;...
      MAng1 12.233 2 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
      ACri 12.295 17 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
      MLit 12.326 20 [Goethe]...worked always to astonish, which is egotism, and therefore little.

    littleness, n. (4)

      Hsm1. 2.252 8 [Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life.
      NR 3.233 20 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
      GoW 4.273 21 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life...nestling close beside us...
      SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.

    Littleton, Massachusetts (?) [Littleton,] (3)

      Wsp 6.222 16 ...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland;...
      Wsp 6.222 20 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
      HDC 11.54 3 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond, now partly in Littleton, partly in Acton, became an Indian town...

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