La Fontaine to Lands

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

La Fontaine, Jean de, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 20 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.

Laban, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.202 10 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    Pol1 3.202 16 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.202 18 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    Pol1 3.202 22 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?

label, v. (1)

    OS 2.278 3 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name...

labels, v. (1)

    OA 7.329 13 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.

labeure, v. (1)

    WD 7.178 17 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En peu d'heure Dieu labeure.

labial, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.104 7 [The Englishman's] elocution is stomachic,--as the American' s is labial.

Labor, Day, n. (1)

    LT 1.275 4 [The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...

Labor, Equal, n. (1)

    MN 1.214 24 The reforms whose fame now fills the land with...Equal Labor...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.

labor, n. (225)

    Nat 1.36 5 Space...labor...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.75 12 ...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
    AmS 1.81 3 Our anniversary is one of hope, perhaps, not enough of labor.
    AmS 1.83 8 ...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
    AmS 1.93 3 When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    AmS 1.94 8 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be...as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe.
    AmS 1.100 5 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
    AmS 1.100 7 ...labor is everywhere welcome;...
    MN 1.208 21 Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor;...
    MN 1.215 24 Tell me not how great your project is...a new division of labor and of land...
    MR 1.234 25 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    MR 1.235 8 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part...in the manual labor of the world.
    MR 1.235 11 ...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
    MR 1.236 7 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor...
    MR 1.236 11 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    MR 1.236 15 The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete...
    MR 1.236 24 Manual labor is the study of the external world.
    MR 1.240 19 I do not wish to overstate this doctrine of labor...
    MR 1.241 6 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...for this reason, that labor is God's education;...
    MR 1.241 8 ...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of labor...
    MR 1.241 14 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    MR 1.242 7 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    LT 1.285 26 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love and science...
    Con 1.308 7 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor...
    Con 1.308 11 To that fidelity and labor I pay homage.
    Con 1.312 16 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage...
    Con 1.325 11 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    Tran 1.333 19 [The idealist] does not respect labor...otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    Tran 1.333 20 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    Tran 1.341 15 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] consent to such labor as is open to them...
    Tran 1.348 14 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    Tran 1.349 23 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Tran 1.350 24 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
    Tran 1.350 25 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
    Tran 1.353 13 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting;...
    YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor... could suggest.
    YA 1.382 13 [The Associations] were founded in love and in labor.
    YA 1.383 12 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of paying talent and labor at one rate...
    Hist 2.28 12 More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    Comp 2.114 1 Labor is watched over by the same pitiless laws.
    Comp 2.114 3 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
    Comp 2.114 13 ...in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    Comp 2.114 16 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue...
    Comp 2.114 21 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind...
    Comp 2.115 3 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Comp 2.123 1 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for...by labor which the heart and the head allow.
    SL 2.137 15 All our manual labor and works of strength...are done by dint of continual falling...
    SL 2.142 14 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    Prd1 2.226 17 ...not one stroke can labor lay to without some new acquaintance with nature...
    Prd1 2.233 27 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Art1 2.352 27 No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his labor.
    Art1 2.364 10 ...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual nation.
    Pt1 3.5 16 In love...in labor...we study to utter our painful secret.
    Exp 3.58 13 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform...
    Exp 3.60 20 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    Gts 3.160 12 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    Nat2 3.196 26 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor;...
    Pol1 3.203 10 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    Pol1 3.215 14 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
    Pol1 3.220 1 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    NR 3.231 22 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been in nations...
    NER 3.256 8 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    NER 3.256 10 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    NER 3.256 26 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    NER 3.264 5 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
    NER 3.264 6 [The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor and to talent...
    NER 3.264 7 [The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an education to labor.
    NER 3.264 9 The scheme [of the new communities] offers, by the economies of associated labor and expense, to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    UGM 4.6 11 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;...
    SwM 4.93 13 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for...the meanness of labor and traffic.
    SwM 4.107 3 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor...
    MoS 4.158 15 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    MoS 4.158 16 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...
    MoS 4.158 20 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
    MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    ShP 4.199 24 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor...
    NMW 4.223 23 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 1 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks...and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 4 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.240 16 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor...
    ET1 5.16 20 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
    ET3 5.36 6 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.45 25 [The English] have...supreme endurance in war and in labor.
    ET4 5.48 27 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...open market, or good wages for every kind of labor;...
    ET4 5.49 6 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
    ET5 5.75 16 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor...
    ET5 5.88 22 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET5 5.90 11 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
    ET5 5.91 17 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    ET5 5.93 8 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    ET10 5.155 6 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers, as it must raise the price of labor and of manufactured goods.
    ET10 5.156 9 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET10 5.160 4 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished of the mischief of the division of labor...
    ET10 5.167 23 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of...the application of their talent to new labor.
    ET11 5.177 24 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    ET11 5.195 18 All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
    ET13 5.214 4 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET13 5.216 12 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    ET14 5.252 23 [A good Englishman] has learning, good sense, power of labor, and logic;...
    ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    ET16 5.283 26 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk when so many thousands of English men were hungry and wanted labor.
    ET18 5.302 25 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war, what sinew in labor...
    F 6.33 8 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for...labor;...
    Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
    Pow 6.57 1 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Pow 6.58 20 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.
    Wth 6.85 22 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
    Wth 6.99 21 Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
    Wth 6.99 22 Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
    Wth 6.101 23 The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents.
    Wth 6.104 26 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Wth 6.108 3 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    Wth 6.112 8 ...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his spending.
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
    Ctr 6.148 22 In the country [a man] can find...manly labor...
    Bhr 6.178 5 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Bhr 6.178 24 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    CbW 6.263 6 No labor, pains, temperance...that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    Bty 6.291 11 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye.
    Civ 7.21 16 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
    Civ 7.23 3 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Civ 7.28 24 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...
    Civ 7.32 17 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.96 12 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.
    DL 7.116 14 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
    DL 7.116 15 I see not how serious labor...is to be avoided;...
    DL 7.116 16 I see not how...the labor of all, and every day, is to be avoided;...
    DL 7.116 18 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    DL 7.116 20 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    DL 7.119 24 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.132 16 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    DL 7.133 10 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained...can the labor of many for one, yield anything better, or half as good"
    Farm 7.138 25 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...
    Farm 7.141 22 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field, investing his labor in the land, and making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.141 23 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.153 6 [The farmer] knows every secret of labor;...
    PI 8.40 11 The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.
    SA 8.87 20 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools...
    SA 8.100 8 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    SA 8.107 8 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
    Res 8.144 1 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting...the skilled labor of our people.
    PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
    PC 8.209 19 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power, and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor...
    PC 8.210 9 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    PC 8.219 7 ...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand thousands...
    Insp 8.287 12 Are you poetical...tired of labor and affairs?
    Grts 8.311 5 Labor, iron labor, is for [the scholar].
    Imtl 8.325 7 The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of catacombs.
    Imtl 8.329 24 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Imtl 8.341 26 Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of facing labor and danger...
    Aris 10.52 15 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He...does not scorn to live by their labor...
    PerF 10.75 2 We are surrounded by human thought and labor.
    PerF 10.75 8 Labor hides itself in every mode and form.
    Chr2 10.96 6 There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment] will not bring a man...
    Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
    Edc1 10.128 18 ...here [in the household] labor drudges, here affections glow...
    Edc1 10.153 19 [An automaton] facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools...to govern by steam.
    Edc1 10.153 25 Our modes of Education aim...to save labor;...
    SovE 10.210 7 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...regulation of labor, come for a hearing.
    MoL 10.243 14 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity...
    MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...loving labor...
    Schr 10.267 6 Young men, I warn you...against irrational labor;...
    Schr 10.273 4 The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling beside [the scholar's].
    Plu 10.301 11 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics. There is no trace of labor or pain.
    LLNE 10.347 22 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    LLNE 10.359 24 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money, others held shares by their labor.
    LLNE 10.360 22 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    LLNE 10.365 24 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor...
    LLNE 10.369 9 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the honesty of a life of labor...
    MMEm 10.415 26 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor...
    MMEm 10.432 7 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study.
    Carl 10.492 13 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    HDC 11.39 27 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...
    EWI 11.112 14 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    FSLC 11.194 25 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    FSLC 11.202 21 We delighted...in [Webster's] power of labor...
    FSLC 11.209 21 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...
    FSLN 11.237 19 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties;...
    AsSu 11.247 10 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education, with skilful labor...
    AsSu 11.250 3 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.
    ACiv 11.297 1 Use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all beings.
    ACiv 11.297 10 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting idle himself;...
    ACiv 11.297 16 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    ACiv 11.297 18 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.
    ACiv 11.297 18 Labor: a man coins himself into his labor;...
    ACiv 11.297 19 Labor: a man coins himself into his labor;...
    ACiv 11.298 2 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor;...
    ACiv 11.298 8 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
    ACiv 11.298 26 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.304 24 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home, so that he loses no labor by the war.
    ACiv 11.307 15 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor;...
    ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor...
    ALin 11.332 9 ...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for labor...
    ALin 11.333 6 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...
    RBur 11.440 15 [Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence, and resting as it should on a life of labor.
    Scot 11.465 22 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor escaped its harm.
    ChiE 11.474 4 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their versatility...are unlooked-for virtues.
    FRep 11.526 12 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work, when labor is sure to pay.
    FRep 11.542 10 The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor.
    FRep 11.543 4 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
    II 12.72 6 It is as impossible for labor to produce a sonnet of Milton...as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    II 12.83 8 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world; and all good labor...will be found to be of that kind.
    CInt 12.127 15 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...
    CL 12.136 14 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
    Bost 12.196 24 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Bost 12.204 27 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
    Bost 12.205 6 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best. There was no secret of labor which they disdained.
    Bost 12.205 19 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
    Bost 12.208 11 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...labor or luxury;...
    MAng1 12.228 26 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
    MAng1 12.244 23 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.
    Milt1 12.264 25 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
    Milt1 12.279 1 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.
    AgMs 12.362 24 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by getting their labor for nothing...
    PPr 12.380 23 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
    PPr 12.381 27 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.
    PPr 12.390 17 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.
    Let 12.403 19 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land; which has rewarded them not only with wheat but with habits of labor.

Labor, n. (1)

    FRep 11.516 15 The questions of Education, of Society, of Labor...may well occupy us...

labor, v. (12)

    LE 1.176 26 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    Tran 1.348 15 ...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
    Int 2.332 11 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
    ET13 5.216 15 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    Art2 7.37 3 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law.
    PerF 10.88 5 ...the cause of right for which we labor never dies...
    LLNE 10.345 19 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product...
    EzRy 10.381 22 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
    Bost 12.186 7 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost.
    Bost 12.203 6 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence.
    MLit 12.318 19 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
    Pray 12.353 15 Are they only the valuable members of society who labor to dress and feed it?

laboratories, n. (3)

    NMW 4.251 8 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories.
    GoW 4.288 11 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be had...
    Wth 6.126 17 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought;...

laboratory, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.124 3 No books, no aids, laboratory apparatus, prizes, can compare with [a good teacher].

laboratory, n. (13)

    MR 1.228 24 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,-Christianity...the laboratory;...
    MR 1.250 19 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers' tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot...
    Exp 3.81 3 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
    NR 3.239 2 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a laboratory...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    UGM 4.12 5 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
    SwM 4.112 10 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    Wth 6.89 24 ...the fabrics of his chemic laboratory;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.262 20 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    Farm 7.148 27 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square, will take the roots into his laboratory;...
    WD 7.159 4 ...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this century...
    Clbs 7.227 27 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
    Clbs 7.239 3 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged.
    Aris 10.43 12 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.

labored, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.305 26 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay: it appeared to me captious and labored;...

labored, v. (4)

    PPh 4.70 21 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    LLNE 10.354 12 [Fourier] labored under a misapprehension of the nature of women.
    LS 11.22 2 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    MAng1 12.219 13 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.

laborer, n. (30)

    MN 1.192 23 I would not have the laborer sacrificed to the result...
    MN 1.192 24 ...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience and pride...
    YA 1.371 12 ...the land of the laborer...[America] should speak for the human race.
    SwM 4.93 15 Then, also, the philosopher has his value, who flatters the intellect of this laborer by engaging him with subtleties which instruct him in new faculties.
    GoW 4.289 22 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    ET5 5.77 9 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    ET5 5.97 17 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...
    ET5 5.101 4 The laborer [in England] is a possible lord.
    Wth 6.86 23 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.
    Wth 6.107 23 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Civ 7.34 9 ...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    WD 7.159 6 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for twenty days.
    Res 8.140 2 See...how every traveller, every laborer...improves the national tongue.
    PC 8.219 3 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    Grts 8.310 26 ...if you are a scholar, be that. The same laws hold for you as for the laborer.
    Imtl 8.341 4 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
    SovE 10.206 2 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    LLNE 10.350 1 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
    Carl 10.492 19 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
    GSt 10.502 1 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery.
    EWI 11.99 15 I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    ACiv 11.298 4 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for that,-to protect and insure it to the laborer.
    ACiv 11.304 9 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North, laborer with laborer.
    ACiv 11.304 23 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home...
    ACiv 11.307 23 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer.
    FRep 11.519 11 Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the state.
    FRep 11.527 9 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    ACri 12.283 23 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
    AgMs 12.358 17 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
    PPr 12.381 13 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...

laborers, n. (20)

    Nat 1.65 19 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
    AmS 1.83 9 ...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
    MR 1.253 5 In every knot of laborers the rich man does not feel himself among his friends...
    Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    SL 2.136 14 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...laborers will lend a hand;...
    PPh 4.42 5 ...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect...
    MoS 4.158 21 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man, and the laborers cry unanimously, We have no thoughts.
    ET4 5.69 13 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
    ET5 5.89 17 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail...
    ET14 5.235 4 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed.
    Civ 7.23 7 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Farm 7.146 8 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
    OA 7.319 26 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    PC 8.219 4 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    Edc1 10.146 2 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    MoL 10.242 24 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    EWI 11.112 9 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    ACiv 11.304 25 All our soldiers are laborers;...
    ACiv 11.307 18 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
    MLit 12.315 13 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with the stream of laborers in the street...

laborer's, n. (1)

    ET10 5.154 20 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.

laboring, adj. (6)

    MR 1.252 17 See this wide society of laboring men and women.
    Nat2 3.167 4 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    EWI 11.120 18 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].

laboring, v. (6)

    Nat 1.11 13 To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
    LT 1.286 3 There was never so great a thought laboring in the breasts of men as now.
    YA 1.373 16 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    NER 3.284 14 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    EWI 11.112 11 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.
    ALin 11.334 21 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.

laborious, adj. (10)

    AmS 1.93 18 History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by laborious reading.
    LE 1.173 19 [The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and charitable soul.
    ShP 4.195 9 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ET10 5.159 23 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    Elo1 7.69 20 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes, the most laborious student in that kind, signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    DL 7.111 22 A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
    OA 7.333 10 [John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been laborious...from infancy.
    MMEm 10.416 18 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say, in youth and laborious poverty, that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    HDC 11.35 24 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    Bost 12.197 12 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...

laborious, n. (1)

    UGM 4.14 9 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or wearied by the most laborious...of Falkland...

labors, n. (33)

    AmS 1.98 2 Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    MN 1.192 20 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MR 1.235 25 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors of commerce...
    LT 1.271 22 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful; but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors of man.
    Tran 1.341 1 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.347 24 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the world;...
    SL 2.138 24 ...our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless;...
    UGM 4.12 17 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies. How easily we adopt their labors!
    SwM 4.100 5 [Swedenborg]...withdrew from his practical labors...
    ShP 4.191 5 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man], and he enters into their labors.
    F 6.34 3 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...the labors of all men in the world;...
    Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
    Bty 6.291 9 ...the labors of hay-makers in the field...is becoming to the wise eye.
    DL 7.114 12 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day imprison us in lucrative labors...
    DL 7.116 22 Another age may...make the labors of a few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
    Farm 7.137 2 The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create.
    Boks 7.201 25 Aristophanes is now very accessible...through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
    Res 8.150 9 ...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind; alternation of labors is its rest.
    Edc1 10.155 26 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    EzRy 10.388 3 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.
    MMEm 10.412 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    MMEm 10.424 21 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    MMEm 10.427 27 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse...
    HDC 11.33 2 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
    HDC 11.34 18 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    HDC 11.38 17 The labors of a new plantation were paid by its excitements.
    LVB 11.90 11 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    SMC 11.372 23 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    MAng1 12.242 6 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    Milt1 12.262 22 ...[Milton's] virtues are so graceful that they seem rather talents than labors.
    Milt1 12.265 3 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...
    AgMs 12.360 3 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
    PPr 12.385 26 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.

labors, v. (8)

    OS 2.277 25 There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.
    Cir 2.318 25 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...
    NER 3.268 1 The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
    MoS 4.155 3 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
    ET10 5.157 8 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
    MLit 12.319 25 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite, which so labors for expression in their different genius.
    MLit 12.334 2 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.

Labrador, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.57 3 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar...

Labrador, n. (3)

    Pow 6.55 24 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...reach Labrador and New England.
    Wth 6.87 1 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
    Farm 7.148 21 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...and makes a little Cuba within it, whilst all without is Labrador.

Labrus [labrus], n. (1)

    F 6.8 6 ...the forms of the shark, the labrus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

labyrinth, n. (2)

    Nat 1.63 6 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
    SwM 4.144 25 [Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.

lace, n. (1)

    Aris 10.36 21 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man. This is the steel that is hid under gauze and lace...

Lacedaemon, n. (3)

    MR 1.244 24 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    Bhr 6.181 3 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of Lacedaemon;...
    Elo1 7.79 11 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...

Lacedaemonians, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.64 10 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...

laces, n. (2)

    ET5 5.96 18 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...laces for the Flemings...
    FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of patterns...

Lacey, Father, n. (1)

    ET4 5.69 27 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.

Lachaise, Pere, Cemetery, (1)

    MoS 4.162 25 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...

laches, n. (1)

    F 6.29 23 As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens c'est qu'ils sont des laches.

lack, n. (8)

    LE 1.183 23 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    Tran 1.337 9 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...excess or lack of water...
    Comc 8.164 14 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief. But to the intellect the lack of the sentiment gives no pain;...
    ALin 11.334 24 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule.
    EdAd 11.385 21 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.
    Wom 11.422 19 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure, of the expediency...
    Wom 11.422 21 There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...

lack, v. (11)

    Nat 1.46 10 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    AmS 1.99 10 Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
    Prd1 2.229 22 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Exp 3.45 20 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    Mrs1 3.121 12 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    NMW 4.229 10 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
    ET1 5.20 9 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...
    Ill 6.314 5 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Chr2 10.112 8 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions. Now that their religions are outgrown, the empires lack strength.
    FRep 11.536 11 Our young men lack idealism.
    PLT 12.53 21 We see ourselves; we lack organs to see others...

lacked, v. (3)

    Int 2.333 20 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his facts, which we lacked.
    ET1 5.13 2 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order.
    MAng1 12.238 25 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked one of the richest sources of happiness...

lacking, v. (3)

    ET14 5.250 20 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a manifest centrality.
    Pow 6.74 19 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all;...
    MLit 12.332 5 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he failed in the high sense to be a creator...

lack-lustre, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.144 10 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty. We wander forlorn in a lack-lustre landscape.
    ET2 5.32 8 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us;...

lacks, v. (11)

    Nat 1.74 1 The reason why the world lacks unity...is because man is disunited with himself.
    SR 2.85 7 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    SwM 4.133 3 Swedenborg's system of the world...lacks power to generate life.
    Pow 6.74 19 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all;...
    Bty 6.282 19 All our science lacks a human side.
    Boks 7.201 13 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Aris 10.60 24 The Golden Table never lacks members;...
    Plu 10.311 20 [Seneca] lacks the sympathy of Plutarch.
    MMEm 10.421 18 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
    Thor 10.475 21 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought...
    Bost 12.196 21 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.

Lacofrupees, Mr., n. (1)

    Ctr 6.135 24 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.

Laconian, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.269 11 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences...

Laconic Apothegms [Plutarch (1)

    Plu 10.322 6 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...

lacquered, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.365 7 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.

lactation, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.99 10 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...a short period of lactation...
    FRep 11.516 9 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the human individual.

lacustrine, adj. (1)

    PC 8.208 4 Who would live in the stone age...or the lacustrine?

lad, n. (2)

    SR 2.76 6 A sturdy lad from New Hampshire...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SL 2.143 3 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and a nimble-fingered lad out of shreds of paper with his scissors...

ladder, n. (7)

    Comp 2.116 9 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot draw up the ladder, so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Lov1 2.183 1 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends...to the love and knowledge of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.
    Cir 2.305 18 Step by step we scale this mysterious ladder;...
    SwM 4.145 17 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    ShP 4.208 1 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ET4 5.70 2 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
    Civ 7.27 12 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.

ladders, n. (1)

    Pow 6.72 24 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.

laden, v. (1)

    PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.

ladies, n. (21)

    Con 1.317 14 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
    Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies...
    Exp 3.76 14 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Mrs1 3.148 14 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    NMW 4.252 8 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    ET6 5.109 26 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
    ET6 5.112 9 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET6 5.114 3 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET6 5.114 5 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room and take coffee.
    Wth 6.117 16 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Wsp 6.203 26 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Plu 10.295 26 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters.
    LLNE 10.341 6 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen.
    LLNE 10.362 9 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.366 22 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...
    EzRy 10.389 6 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies was always strong...
    MMEm 10.399 2 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    MMEm 10.411 1 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    Mem 12.99 8 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen and ladies...
    CL 12.143 13 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    WSL 12.339 17 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...

lads, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 10 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...

Lady Diving in the Lake..., (1)

    QO 8.186 23 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake and Rising in the Cave...

lady, n. (31)

    Hist 2.18 10 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Mrs1 3.137 19 ...a lady is serene.
    Mrs1 3.148 1 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NR 3.225 17 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners; but separate them and there is no gentleman and no lady in the group.
    ET7 5.119 6 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET9 5.149 16 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    Wsp 6.207 10 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    CbW 6.275 21 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.
    Cour 7.277 18 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a ballad by a lady to whom all the particulars of the fact are exactly known.
    SA 8.86 11 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
    SA 8.88 24 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.91 7 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    SA 8.96 20 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    Comc 8.171 5 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    Comc 8.171 18 A lady of high rank...had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    QO 8.184 16 ...a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    LLNE 10.342 10 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
    LLNE 10.369 12 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    EzRy 10.389 10 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of you.
    MMEm 10.413 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was never so good to me.
    MMEm 10.413 8 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner...
    MMEm 10.420 21 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    ACiv 11.301 14 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    Wom 11.405 20 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste...
    Wom 11.425 8 ...a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    CPL 11.499 6 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
    CPL 11.500 20 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
    Bost 12.193 20 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    MAng1 12.240 5 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time...
    Milt1 12.257 7 Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was called the lady of his college.
    Trag 12.415 22 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill...

Lady, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.244 5 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.
    ACri 12.292 23 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...

lady's, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.432 26 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.

ladyship, n. (1)

    ET18 5.302 20 ...what facility and plenteousness of knighthood, lordship, ladyship, royalty, loyalty;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!

Laelius, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.124 14 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the friendship of Laelius and Scipio...

Laertes [Homer, Iliad], n. (1)

    Elo1 7.72 1 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses, son of Laertes...

laetus, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.265 6 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.

Lafayette, Marie du Motier (1)

    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Lafayette...

Lafayette, Marquis de [Mari (3)

    NMW 4.228 11 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...Lafayette is an ideologist.
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of... Lafayette...

Lafayette, Marquis de [Mari (1)

    MMEm 10.400 1 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.

Laharpe, Jean Francois de, (1)

    Plu 10.311 7 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.

laid, v. (78)

    LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
    MR 1.252 10 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    LT 1.266 6 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel, laid up on the shelf in some village to rust and ruin.
    LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.274 4 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep;...
    Con 1.308 3 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess;...
    Hist 2.29 8 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door, and himself has laid the courses.
    SR 2.62 14 That popular fable of the sot...washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
    Hsm1 2.263 25 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington...that he was laid sweet in his grave...
    OS 2.265 7 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/...
    Int 2.332 5 ...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.
    Int 2.337 26 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...its colors are well laid on...
    Exp 3.49 12 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Chr1 3.105 18 This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
    PPh 4.65 27 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
    PPh 4.66 18 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    PPh 4.67 20 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
    PPh 4.71 10 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    PNR 4.84 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    MoS 4.165 26 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    ShP 4.195 14 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors...
    ShP 4.195 21 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    NMW 4.235 13 [Napoleon] laid his bones to, and wrought for his crown.
    ET1 5.24 9 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste.
    ET4 5.60 13 ...the foundations of the new civility were to be laid by the most savage men.
    ET10 5.154 19 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.278 17 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    ET16 5.282 3 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it;...
    ET16 5.285 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    ET16 5.290 10 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city, and laid under the high altar.
    F 6.34 15 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and...rive every mountain laid on top of it.
    Wth 6.88 20 ...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few...
    Wth 6.122 6 We say the cows laid out Boston.
    Bhr 6.197 10 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.
    Wsp 6.227 24 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    Ill 6.315 16 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick.
    Ill 6.316 7 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
    Art2 7.56 7 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith. Love and fear laid every stone.
    Elo1 7.98 15 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    DL 7.126 13 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    Suc 7.285 2 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    OA 7.322 26 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France...
    PI 8.6 11 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised; gun-powder is laid under every man's breakfast-table.
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Res 8.148 13 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill...
    PC 8.223 14 On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
    PPo 8.241 11 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water...
    PPo 8.245 16 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance;...
    Insp 8.286 19 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Dem1 10.13 5 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.
    Aris 10.57 17 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Plu 10.310 3 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision...
    LLNE 10.327 26 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone. The very last ghost is laid.
    LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
    LLNE 10.359 5 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    MMEm 10.397 22 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.406 23 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    MMEm 10.423 23 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
    HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were laid at rest in the forest.
    EWI 11.128 10 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...every particle of evidence was sifted and laid in the scale;...
    War 11.175 25 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    FSLC 11.200 2 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
    FSLN 11.244 12 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart.
    ALin 11.330 18 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer, a representative in the rural legislature of Illinois;-on such modest foundations the broad structure of his fame was laid.
    SMC 11.350 18 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and laid upon the top of it;...
    SMC 11.369 23 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    SHC 11.429 6 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.434 7 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    CL 12.138 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    MAng1 12.244 2 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open. And there and so is he laid.
    Milt1 12.267 20 [Milton] laid on himself the lowliest duties.
    MLit 12.328 8 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    Let 12.393 21 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

lain, v. (2)

    SL 2.131 12 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    TPar 11.290 25 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.

lair, n. (1)

    F 6.38 17 Every creature, wren or dragon, shall make its own lair.

Lais [Marie de France], n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 4 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie...

laity, n. (2)

    ET7 5.116 6 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    LS 11.3 18 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.

lake, adj. (1)

    PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets...on a lake shore.

Lake Como, Italy, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 4 We can find these enchantments [of the landscape] without visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.

Lake..., Lady Diving in the (1)

    QO 8.186 23 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake and Rising in the Cave...

Lake Leman, Switzerland, n. (1)

    SA 8.94 8 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...

Lake, Moosehead, Maine, n. (1)

    MN 1.220 21 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake...

lake, n. (14)

    UGM 4.31 12 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    PPh 4.70 8 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    NMW 4.234 19 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat...on the ice of the lake, the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.235 7 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
    ET10 5.163 26 This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.
    Bty 6.279 7 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
    Art2 7.47 15 Our arts are happy hits. We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows...
    WD 7.168 1 Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    Insp 8.288 3 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer...
    MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    HDC 11.50 26 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...
    SMC 11.353 25 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...leaps the mountains, bridges river and lake...
    PLT 12.11 9 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...
    CW 12.176 26 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...

Lake Windermere, England, n (2)

    EurB 12.368 8 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...
    EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

lakes, n. (9)

    Nat2 3.172 17 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET3 5.42 18 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET5 5.95 9 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET11 5.189 8 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...
    Elo1 7.59 12 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Res 8.144 26 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...
    Dem1 10.22 2 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    CL 12.159 4 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills...these we call professors.

Lalla Rookh [Thomas Moore] (1)

    EurB 12.370 13 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

L'Allegro [John Milton], n (1)

    Milt1 12.275 7 L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...

Lamartine, Alphonse Marie (1)

    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Lamartine.

Lamb, Charles, n. (4)

    Boks 7.209 2 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Lamb;...
    QO 8.198 22 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.
    Plu 10.316 12 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb...
    CL 12.154 24 Like Charles Lamb, [Samuel Johnson] loved the sweet security of streets.

lamb, n. (4)

    Nat 1.26 20 A lamb is innocence;...
    Comp 2.99 8 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in...
    Gts 3.161 13 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem the shepherd, his lamb;...
    LS 11.9 8 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.

lambent, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.307 20 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./

Lambert, Pyramid, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 5 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...

Lambeth House, London, Eng (1)

    Milt1 12.270 4 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...

Lamb's, Charles, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.389 5 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last.

lambs, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.233 14 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs.

lamb's-wool, n. (1)

    Res 8.144 12 The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.

lame, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    Art1 2.363 17 ...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Mrs1 3.154 1 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    GoW 4.278 23 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
    Wth 6.120 8 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame.
    Wth 6.120 9 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen?
    CbW 6.249 6 Masses are rude, lame, unmade...
    Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    Farm 7.151 22 [The first planter] falls, and is lame;...
    Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur...had a blind eye and a lame foot.

lame, n. (1)

    LE 1.155 20 ...feet is [the scholar] to the lame.

lame, v. (1)

    F 6.35 11 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to lame him;...

lamed, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.102 25 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

lamed, v. (1)

    WD 7.166 22 Every [inventor]...is lamed by his excellence.

lameness, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.18 20 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as lameness to Vulcan...to signify exuberances.

lament, v. (5)

    Hist 2.29 18 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    SA 8.80 19 ...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.
    Supl 10.166 10 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
    Plu 10.317 24 ...I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him...
    MMEm 10.417 16 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place, which I most bitterly lament...

lamentations, n. (2)

    SwM 4.131 21 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there...their lamentations;...
    DL 7.103 15 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...

lamented, v. (2)

    Con 1.314 25 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...
    SovE 10.207 9 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...

lamenting, v. (1)

    PI 8.60 20 [Sir Gawaine] came into the forest of Broceliande, lamenting as he went along.

laments, v. (4)

    SR 2.67 16 ...man...with reverted eye laments the past...
    UGM 4.30 17 The thoughtful youth laments the superfoetation of nature.
    ET9 5.146 15 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    MLit 12.335 10 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.

lames, v. (1)

    F 6.47 27 ...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity... to repay.

laminae, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 5 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...

Lammermoor, Bride of, The [ (1)

    Scot 11.465 12 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor...

Lammermoor, Bride of [Walte (1)

    Hist 2.35 12 I read the Bride of Lammermoor.

lamp, n. (15)

    LE 1.183 8 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    Int 2.333 3 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics withal.
    Wth 6.87 21 Wealth begins...in a good double-wick lamp...
    Ill 6.310 23 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    Res 8.142 7 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have the Aladdin oil.
    PPo 8.257 14 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    Insp 8.275 8 The moth flies into the flame of the lamp;...
    Insp 8.284 26 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Insp 8.292 4 The moth must fly to the lamp...
    Grts 8.317 18 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Imtl 8.335 20 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star...
    PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Plu 10.316 14 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    PLT 12.46 14 If the thought is not a lamp to the will...the wise are imbecile.
    Mem 12.100 25 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...

lamplight, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 6 By lamplight [the nestler] delights in shadows on the wall;...

lampoon, n. (2)

    OA 7.321 13 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    Grts 8.315 24 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...

lampoon, v. (1)

    PLT 12.8 20 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?

lampooner, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 2 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.

lampoons, n. (1)

    Tran 1.356 2 ...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will lay themselves open to criticism and to lampoons...

lamps, n. (9)

    AmS 1.91 18 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    Ill 6.310 11 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...
    Dem1 10.25 14 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Chr2 10.117 13 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use of lamps...
    Plu 10.316 24 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps...
    MMEm 10.421 24 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
    MMEm 10.421 27 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held to measure out some of the moments of eternity...
    FSLN 11.222 18 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath, when his eyes became lamps, was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    EurB 12.370 15 Amid swinging censers and perfumed lamps...we long for rain and frost.

lamp-wick, n. (1)

    Prch 10.222 12 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever. It is a lamp-wick for meanest uses.

Lamson, Father, n. (1)

    Bost 12.207 4 From Roger Williams...down to Abner Kneeland, and Father Lamson...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Lanark, Scotland, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.346 18 Robert Owen of Lanark came hither from England in 1845...

Lancashire, England, n. (1)

    ET2 5.25 3 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...

Lancaster, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    HDC 11.58 19 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...
    HDC 11.60 12 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse they had stolen from Lancaster...and rode through the forest to her home.

Lancaster, n. (1)

    FRep 11.515 4 No interest now attaches to the wars of York and Lancaster...

Lancaster Sound, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 17 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...yachting among the icebergs of Lancaster Sound;...

lance, n. (1)

    Boks 7.210 13 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.

lance, v. (1)

    PPr 12.389 17 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

lances, n. (1)

    HCom 11.344 20 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.

land, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.

land, n. (257)

    Nat 1.47 22 ...what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.52 1 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...
    Nat 1.76 14 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a hundred acres of ploughed land...
    DSA 1.131 15 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... not land and professions, but even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    DSA 1.136 24 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...house and land...
    LE 1.185 15 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    LE 1.185 22 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.191 3 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    MN 1.205 12 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.
    MN 1.214 23 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MN 1.215 24 Tell me not how great your project is...a new division of labor and of land...
    MN 1.223 24 ...[these qualities] penetrate the ocean and land, space and time...
    MR 1.234 17 ...whilst another man has no land, my title to mine...is at once vitiated.
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...ploughed land...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...water and land...seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
    LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.279 19 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it.
    Con 1.310 26 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Con 1.311 23 ...for thee roads have been cut in every direction across the land...
    Con 1.312 20 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;...
    Con 1.320 24 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself, and new distribute the land.
    Tran 1.345 18 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Tran 1.359 8 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.363 22 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances of land and water.
    YA 1.364 16 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...
    YA 1.364 20 Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    YA 1.365 10 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
    YA 1.365 17 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
    YA 1.365 24 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.
    YA 1.366 1 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    YA 1.367 1 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    YA 1.367 13 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works...which might well make the land dear to the citizen...
    YA 1.368 24 The land...looks poverty-stricken...
    YA 1.368 27 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock...
    YA 1.369 16 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    YA 1.369 17 Any relation to the land...generates the feeling of patriotism.
    YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...
    YA 1.370 5 How much better when the whole land is a garden...
    YA 1.370 10 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.371 12 ...the land of the laborer...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.384 24 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who understand the land and its uses and the applicabilities of men...
    YA 1.387 18 I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart and be the nobility of this land.
    YA 1.395 4 This land too is as old as the Flood...
    Hist 2.6 27 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found...for us...
    Comp 2.114 5 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
    Pt1 3.42 11 Thou [O poet] shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor...
    Exp 3.65 4 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Chr1 3.115 2 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Mrs1 3.130 6 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.
    Nat2 3.172 23 My house stands in low land...
    Pol1 3.204 15 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.
    Pol1 3.206 12 [A cent's value] is...so much water, so much land.
    Pol1 3.213 4 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in what...what amount of land or of public aid each is entitled to claim.
    Pol1 3.213 6 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...
    NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties, house and land...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    UGM 4.22 15 We live in a market, where is only so much wheat, or wool, or land;...
    PPh 4.52 19 ...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
    PPh 4.60 17 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles; and by and by comes a sentence that moves the sea and land.
    SwM 4.145 4 In the shipwreck...the pilot chooses with science,--I plant myself here; all will sink before this; he comes to land who sails with me.
    ShP 4.213 4 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort...
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 4 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
    NMW 4.229 17 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher. Therefore the land and sea seem to presuppose him.
    NMW 4.242 3 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates...
    ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET2 5.29 19 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
    ET2 5.30 1 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET2 5.33 7 As we neared the land [England], its genius was felt.
    ET3 5.34 6 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty.
    ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    ET3 5.37 16 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET3 5.39 4 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game;...
    ET4 5.53 19 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but...no right relation to the land...
    ET4 5.55 14 [The Celts] had no violent feudal tenure, but the husbandman owned the land.
    ET4 5.57 18 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...wherein the association is logical, between merit and land.
    ET4 5.58 2 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their food from the sea and half from the land.
    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET4 5.64 18 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
    ET5 5.75 2 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...
    ET5 5.92 20 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
    ET5 5.94 13 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
    ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
    ET5 5.98 13 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
    ET6 5.110 12 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET7 5.119 10 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    ET10 5.153 16 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    ET10 5.158 8 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs.
    ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    ET10 5.163 14 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET10 5.165 8 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
    ET10 5.169 8 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    ET11 5.173 15 Every man who becomes rich [in England] buys land...
    ET11 5.174 21 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
    ET11 5.175 21 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    ET11 5.179 4 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
    ET11 5.181 19 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
    ET11 5.189 14 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same land that fed three millions.
    ET12 5.213 8 England is the land of mixture and surprise...
    ET13 5.217 10 The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
    ET14 5.242 8 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    ET16 5.284 1 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain]...
    ET18 5.301 25 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to pass as well by land as by water...
    ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
    ET19 5.310 14 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...feet on land;...
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.57 24 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
    Wth 6.86 11 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.87 22 Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land...
    Wth 6.101 25 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;...
    Wth 6.114 24 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to go upon the land...
    Wth 6.115 22 No land is bad, but land is worse.
    Wth 6.115 23 If a man own land, the land owns him.
    Wth 6.119 5 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
    Wth 6.120 16 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land.
    Wth 6.122 15 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    CbW 6.243 5 ...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the vantage-ground;/...
    CbW 6.249 2 'T is pedantry to estimate nations...by square miles of land...
    CbW 6.275 5 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    Bty 6.303 13 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    Civ 7.22 27 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Civ 7.32 7 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Civ 7.34 21 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Farm 7.137 8 ...all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
    Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land...
    Farm 7.139 9 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the largeness of the sea and land we must traverse...
    Farm 7.139 20 [The farmer]...clings to his land as the rocks do.
    Farm 7.141 10 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside, makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
    Farm 7.141 22 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field, investing his labor in the land, and making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.143 1 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...
    Farm 7.149 17 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...
    Farm 7.150 2 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
    Farm 7.150 15 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land...
    Farm 7.151 6 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
    Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
    Farm 7.152 8 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    WD 7.163 7 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    WD 7.167 26 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own.
    Boks 7.207 21 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together, and to the land to which they belong.
    Cour 7.275 1 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or conveniences...
    OA 7.327 13 [Man] wants...power, house and land...
    PI 8.50 27 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PI 8.58 21 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    PI 8.59 6 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    Res 8.141 22 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Res 8.141 24 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    PC 8.207 24 Land without price is offered to the settler...
    PC 8.212 8 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    PPo 8.255 23 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
    Insp 8.269 7 ...every reasonable man would give any price of house and land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.294 25 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...
    Imtl 8.339 17 ...[men] want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
    Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
    Dem1 10.10 26 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    Aris 10.44 18 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for orchard, tillage...
    Aris 10.56 8 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land... avails.
    PerF 10.77 22 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is not his land or his money or body's strength, but his thoughts...
    PerF 10.84 19 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
    Supl 10.167 22 The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.
    Supl 10.172 18 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    SovE 10.190 12 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
    MoL 10.250 5 [Nature says to the American] I give you the land and sea... the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    MoL 10.250 10 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    Schr 10.270 1 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn. He rides in them, he traverses sea and land.
    Schr 10.271 17 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    LLNE 10.326 27 People grow philosophical about native land and parents and relations.
    LLNE 10.350 26 and each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    Thor 10.473 8 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
    HDC 11.27 2 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.28 6 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.36 2 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    HDC 11.38 21 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
    HDC 11.39 11 The land [at Concord] was low but healthy;...
    HDC 11.41 1 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.41 12 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...
    HDC 11.41 24 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
    HDC 11.41 26 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a reservation of land for the minister...
    HDC 11.42 22 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.43 12 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.43 14 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.47 13 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.
    HDC 11.48 14 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    HDC 11.55 13 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    HDC 11.55 19 New plantations and better land had been opened, far and near;...
    HDC 11.68 13 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.71 18 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
    HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.85 20 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    LVB 11.90 22 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    LVB 11.93 10 ...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
    EWI 11.131 9 ...this kidnapping [of freeborn negroes] is suffered within our own land and federation...
    EWI 11.140 4 ...the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land... fear no competition or superiority.
    War 11.165 6 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will build ships;...
    FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLC 11.211 19 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face of the land...
    AKan 11.261 20 The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of the land.
    AKan 11.262 9 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    AKan 11.263 4 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    AKan 11.263 20 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    JBB 11.266 19 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    JBS 11.276 3 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    ACiv 11.298 27 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.299 3 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.301 12 ...there is no one owner of the state [Kentucky], but a good many small owners. One man owns land and slaves; another owns slaves only.
    EPro 11.322 15 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    EPro 11.324 26 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    ALin 11.329 4 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel over sea, over land...
    SMC 11.351 15 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.360 7 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business by this rally of all the manhood in the land.
    EdAd 11.386 3 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy, and endear the face of land and sea to men.
    Koss 11.398 4 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress through the land...
    Koss 11.399 9 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom, crossing sea and land;...
    SHC 11.433 5 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    SHC 11.436 15 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?
    Humb 11.458 7 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    CPL 11.495 7 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
    CPL 11.502 6 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    FRep 11.513 14 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war, all fortification by land and sea...on that one compound...
    FRep 11.520 15 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.520 16 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.520 17 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.529 16 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...
    FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the people...
    FRep 11.541 24 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
    CInt 12.116 1 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.
    CL 12.135 3 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land.
    CL 12.135 7 The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the people of this new country...
    CL 12.135 12 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.
    CL 12.143 6 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    CL 12.144 1 In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably broken...
    CL 12.145 2 The privilege of the countryman is the culture of the land...
    CL 12.145 23 One [apple] tree yields the rent of an acre of land.
    CL 12.148 8 Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows to pasture, less land would suffice.
    CL 12.148 9 ...a cow does not need so much land as the owner's eyes require between him and his neighbor.
    CL 12.162 19 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises. It was their land before it was his...
    CL 12.162 21 My naturalist knew what was on [the sparrows' and tortoises'] land, and the farmers did not...
    CL 12.162 27 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.
    CW 12.172 5 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers,- not doctors of laws but doctors of land...
    Bost 12.191 14 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Bost 12.207 22 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm. That is...what the land wants and invites.
    Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.
    MLit 12.335 16 ...[man's] thought can animate the sea and land.
    WSL 12.342 9 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects:-In the afternoon we came unto a land/ In which it seemed always afternoon./
    AgMs 12.359 8 No rich father or father-in-law left [Edmund Hosmer] any inheritance of land or money.
    AgMs 12.359 12 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year...
    AgMs 12.362 17 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
    PPr 12.385 14 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
    Let 12.403 11 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...
    Let 12.403 18 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...

land, v. (2)

    PI 8.31 5 Every writer is...a sailor, who can only land where sails can be blown.
    War 11.162 5 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?

Land, Van Dieman's, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 3 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind, though he live in Van Dieman's Land or Capetown.

land-birds, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 27 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks; the land-birds are left;...

land-commander, n. (1)

    NMW 4.248 10 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.

landed, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.174 6 I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the State with these dangerous auxiliaries [of nature].
    ET11 5.176 25 How came the Duke of Bedford by his great landed estates?
    CL 12.135 19 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.

landed, v. (8)

    ET1 5.3 4 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET4 5.60 23 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
    ET4 5.72 14 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed...
    ET5 5.77 6 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity.
    PI 8.5 6 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    EWI 11.110 13 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.
    War 11.158 22 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled.
    Bost 12.191 5 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth.

landholder, n. (1)

    WSL 12.344 10 [Landor] has the common prejudices of an English landholder;...

landholders, n. (1)

    ET4 5.57 9 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders...

Landing, Harrison's, n. (1)

    SMC 11.368 8 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service at Harrison' s Landing...

landing, n. (3)

    ET3 5.42 2 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving road and landing to innumerable ships...
    ET4 5.65 16 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool;...
    ET17 5.291 18 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...

landing, v. (2)

    ET3 5.35 8 The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why England is England?
    ET19 5.310 13 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.

landless, adj. (1)

    Con 1.312 1 ...thou wast born landless...

landlocked, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.64 27 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.

land-lord, n. [landlord,] (7)

    Pt1 3.42 15 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!
    ET5 5.98 20 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    Wth 6.107 22 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    CbW 6.260 24 A Fifth Avenue landlord...is not the highest style of man;...
    Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    LLNE 10.328 15 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    AgMs 12.359 13 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year, and this without prejudice to himself the landlord...

landlords, n. [land-lords,] (7)

    Con 1.321 15 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the very innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    YA 1.384 23 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...
    ET10 5.167 17 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords.
    Wth 6.105 8 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland.
    Farm 7.150 22 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords...
    HDC 11.27 4 Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./
    II 12.81 23 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...

landlord's, n. (3)

    Cir 2.316 24 ...are all claims on [a man] to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's?
    ET17 5.297 1 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had come for his porter.
    Pow 6.67 27 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.

land-nations, n. (1)

    ET4 5.56 22 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...

Landor, Walter Savage, n. (25)

    Lov1 2.180 13 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
    ET1 5.4 4 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.7 1 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET1 5.7 3 On the 15th May I dined with Mr. Landor.
    ET1 5.9 3 Landor despised entomology...
    ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
    ET1 5.9 16 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
    ET1 5.9 26 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...
    ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET14 5.257 7 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
    ET17 5.297 7 Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never praised anybody.
    Ctr 6.143 18 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    DL 7.128 18 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Boks 7.209 2 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor;...
    QO 8.191 21 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    QO 8.196 8 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley, Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
    MLit 12.321 26 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.338 13 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.339 6 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    WSL 12.341 1 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
    WSL 12.343 21 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
    WSL 12.344 2 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
    WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
    WSL 12.348 11 ...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor commends himself to us.

Landor's, Walter Savage, n. (5)

    ET1 5.16 16 Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.
    WSL 12.339 19 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of defiance...
    WSL 12.346 6 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    WSL 12.346 25 Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of particulars;...
    WSL 12.349 4 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.

land-owner, n. (1)

    ET10 5.162 16 ...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the land-owner...

land-owning, n. (1)

    Aris 10.40 27 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...out of their old war and modern land-owning...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.

land-room, n. (1)

    ET4 5.52 13 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.

lands, n. (45)

    Nat 1.3 18 There are new lands, new men, new thoughts.
    AmS 1.81 21 ...our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
    MR 1.249 6 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence.
    Con 1.307 5 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so.
    YA 1.367 25 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
    Hist 2.39 9 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the discovery of new lands...
    SR 2.81 5 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he is at home still...
    Comp 2.94 19 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Gts 3.165 12 I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.
    UGM 4.3 16 We call our children and our lands by [great men's] names.
    ET11 5.175 9 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET11 5.177 5 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    ET11 5.180 1 The English lords do not call their lands after their own names...
    ET11 5.180 2 The English lords...call themselves after their lands...
    Pow 6.63 8 ...the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Wth 6.89 19 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
    Wth 6.124 21 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Bhr 6.174 26 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
    CbW 6.266 18 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...
    SS 7.11 4 Never his lands or his rents, but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has broad lands for his home...
    Farm 7.151 4 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
    Farm 7.151 14 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
    Farm 7.152 13 The last lands are the best lands.
    Farm 7.152 15 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
    Suc 7.285 19 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold...
    Res 8.141 20 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
    Grts 8.305 19 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
    Dem1 10.4 13 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and days in peregrinations over seas and lands...
    Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    SlHr 10.445 23 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison, and their lands out of attachment.
    Thor 10.473 4 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...
    HDC 11.37 19 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid, to treat with him for his lands.
    HDC 11.41 22 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley, of the lands adjacent to the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.41 27 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
    HDC 11.44 22 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.46 21 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the disposal of town lands;...
    HDC 11.54 15 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided;...
    HDC 11.55 2 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    HDC 11.63 27 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    Wom 11.411 27 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./
    II 12.85 15 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands...
    CL 12.133 6 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./
    CL 12.144 19 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.

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