Landscape to Lasts

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

landscape, n. (94)

Nat 1.8 14 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.

Nat 1.8 18 Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape.

Nat 1.10 18 In the tranquil landscape...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

Nat 1.11 15 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.

Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.

Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.

Nat 1.23 23 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.

Nat 1.51 11 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...

Nat 1.65 15 Is not the landscape...a face of [God]?

Nat 1.65 18 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.

Nat 1.67 11 When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

DSA 1.133 26 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part... of the landscape...

MN 1.201 13 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals.

MN 1.214 9 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that.

MR 1.245 6 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them...

LT 1.262 10 ...trees...constitute the hospitality of the landscape...

YA 1.368 3 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it...

YA 1.369 14 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

YA 1.384 19 ...the landscape seems to crave Government.

OS 2.274 6 The landscape, the figures...are facts as fugitive as any institution past...

OS 2.290 16 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape...they enjoyed yesterday...

Art1 2.351 12 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;...

Art1 2.352 8 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...

Art1 2.355 14 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...a landscape...

Art1 2.356 20 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.

Pt1 3.19 3 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...

Exp 3.62 24 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin...

Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the laws.

Chr1 3.109 4 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.

Nat2 3.170 22 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...

Nat2 3.176 2 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.

Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...

Nat2 3.176 15 The difference between landscape and landscape is small...

Nat2 3.176 16 The difference between landscape and landscape is small...

Nat2 3.176 18 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.

Nat2 3.176 19 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.

Nat2 3.178 7 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.

Nat2 3.192 11 This disappointment is felt in every landscape.

Nat2 3.193 10 Is it that beauty...in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

NR 3.229 20 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.

NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...

SwM 4.128 18 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...

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.

ShP 4.211 19 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.

ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.

ET3 5.42 14 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...

ET6 5.114 23 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken country makes picturesque landscape;...

ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...

F 6.48 10 I do not wonder at...a summer landscape...

Ctr 6.129 6 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky/...

Bhr 6.196 26 Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...

Bty 6.304 26 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...

Bty 6.306 14 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through fair outlines and details of the landscape...

Art2 7.44 9 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape.

Art2 7.45 3 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.

Art2 7.46 5 [The temple] is exalted by...the landscape around it...

Farm 7.135 2 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is an armory of powers/...

Farm 7.153 7 ...[the farmer] changes the face of the landscape.

WD 7.180 10 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...

Boks 7.199 14 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape.

Suc 7.298 4 What is it we look for in the landscape...

PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.

PI 8.26 5 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in the landscape...

PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.

PI 8.45 13 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...

Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.

Insp 8.291 1 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds...used to say the human face was his landscape.

Insp 8.296 9 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...

Dem1 10.5 9 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem not to fit us...

Chr2 10.101 4 ...[the man of profound moral sentiment] lights up the house or the landscape in which he stands.

Edc1 10.129 20 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?

MMEm 10.414 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her...

HDC 11.38 23 The landscape before [the settlers of Concord] was fair, if it was strange and rude.

FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which robs the landscape of beauty...

FSLN 11.221 16 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men...was a fit figure in the landscape.

SMC 11.350 26 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.

SHC 11.431 7 ...[trees] make the landscape;...

RBur 11.441 25 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...

II 12.65 23 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed and revealed the dusky landscape of his life.

CL 12.140 24 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...

CL 12.151 24 In August...we observe already...that a change has passed on the landscape.

CL 12.156 24 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?

CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.

CL 12.158 4 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.

CL 12.158 6 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture! It changes the landscape from November into June.

CL 12.164 23 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.

CL 12.166 20 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;...

CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying,-what reaches of landscape...

CW 12.177 10 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the landscape is his.

ACri 12.305 6 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

WSL 12.345 19 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?

WSL 12.347 3 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

PPr 12.389 8 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

landscape-garden, n. (1)

Pt1 3.9 16 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...

landscape-painting, n. (1)

ACri 12.302 19 [Channing] thinks...that the only art is landscape-painting.

landscapes, n. (3)

Art1 2.351 8 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.

SwM 4.143 9 It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.

CL 12.159 7 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen...these we call professors.

Landseer, Edwin, n. (1)

SL 2.143 4 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and Landseer out of swine...

land-slide, n. (1)

ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide...

landsman, n. (1)

ET2 5.30 6 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage; and of this no landsman seems so fearful as the seaman.

landsmen, n. (2)

Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.

QO 8.203 11 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...

land-surveyor, n. (1)

Thor 10.453 21 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.

land-title, n. (1)

YA 1.383 19 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...

land-war, n. (1)

Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign, sea-war and land-war...

Lane, Drury, Theatre, Lond (1)

ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

Lane, Lundy's, Canada, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane...

lane, n. (2)

ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market.

Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...

lanes, n. (3)

Thor 10.468 17 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens...

CL 12.156 9 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.

CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...what fields and lanes for a tramp.

lang, adj. (1)

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

lang synes, Auld, n. (1)

RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!

Langdon ("), n. (1)

HDC 11.86 5 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided.

language, n. (204)

Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language...

Nat 1.25 1 Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man.

Nat 1.25 12 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Nat 1.26 3 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed;...

Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, - so conspicuous a fact in the history of language, - is our least debt to nature.

Nat 1.27 17 ...man in all ages and countries embodies [Spirit] in his language as the FATHER.

Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...

Nat 1.29 14 ...as [idiomatic language] is the first language, so is it the last.

Nat 1.29 15 This immediate dependence of language upon nature...never loses its power to affect us.

Nat 1.29 27 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Nat 1.30 18 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country...

Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.

Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

Nat 1.58 12 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...

Nat 1.62 3 ...when we try to define and describe [God], both language and thought desert us...

AmS 1.98 6 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.

AmS 1.98 14 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

AmS 1.103 12 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...

AmS 1.103 13 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent...of all into whose language his own can be translated.

DSA 1.129 13 The idioms of [Jesus's] language...have usurped the place of his truth;...

DSA 1.131 1 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...

LE 1.176 27 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...

MN 1.195 4 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought.

MN 1.198 22 Language overstates.

MN 1.206 9 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...

LT 1.279 4 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Tran 1.330 15 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts, degrading these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;...

Fdsp 2.191 10 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams.

Fdsp 2.201 7 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...

OS 2.271 19 Language cannot paint [this pure nature] with [man's] colors.

OS 2.282 14 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

Int 2.335 19 We must learn the language of facts.

Int 2.347 7 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...

Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.

Pt1 3.9 7 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise.

Pt1 3.17 3 Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...

Pt1 3.21 24 ...language is the archives of history...

Pt1 3.22 5 Language is fossil poetry.

Pt1 3.22 8 ...language is made up of images or tropes...

Pt1 3.34 16 ...all language is vehicular and transitive...

Pt1 3.35 15 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.

Exp 3.79 7 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.

Exp 3.79 26 ...use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are;...

Mrs1 3.119 23 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.

Nat2 3.190 13 Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions...

NR 3.230 20 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language...

NR 3.230 25 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.

NR 3.231 1 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.

UGM 4.3 17 [Great men's] names are wrought into the verbs of language...

UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...

PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.

PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.

PPh 4.56 10 Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

SwM 4.94 23 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?

SwM 4.116 26 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language.

SwM 4.132 10 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.

SwM 4.142 1 When [Swedenborg] mounts into the heaven, I do not hear its language.

MoS 4.149 21 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...

MoS 4.150 14 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...

MoS 4.168 10 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book.

ShP 4.199 27 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.

ShP 4.200 15 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.

ShP 4.212 14 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit.

ET1 5.3 16 The shop-signs spoke our language;...

ET1 5.17 9 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted.

ET4 5.45 8 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...

ET4 5.50 22 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...

ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language...

ET4 5.60 20 [The Normans] had...learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls, and had acquired, with the language, all the vices it had names for.

ET5 5.75 10 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...

ET5 5.78 12 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.

ET5 5.100 8 ...in England, the language of the noble is the language of the poor.

ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...

ET5 5.100 13 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.

ET7 5.118 26 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying.

ET8 5.137 3 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.

ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.

ET10 5.154 21 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.

ET11 5.173 24 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.

ET11 5.173 26 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.

ET14 5.234 26 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...

ET14 5.246 15 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.

ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's].

ET18 5.303 10 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.

Bhr 6.169 5 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. This silent and subtile language is Manners;...

Bhr 6.180 4 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.

Wsp 6.222 5 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost.

Wsp 6.226 25 Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

CbW 6.254 3 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...

Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird...

Bty 6.304 14 All the facts in nature...make the grammar of the eternal language.

Civ 7.20 27 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must...have the sympathy, language and gods of those he would inform.

Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...

Art2 7.37 5 ...[all the departments of life] translate each into a new language the sense of the other.

Art2 7.40 2 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;...

Art2 7.43 17 The basis of poetry is language...

Art2 7.50 16 The whole language of men...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...

Elo1 7.67 5 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time...

DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...

WD 7.163 10 ...we have language,--the finest tool of all...

WD 7.171 26 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world.

PI 8.15 22 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...

PI 8.34 10 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.

PI 8.38 7 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws...

PI 8.39 2 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak.

PI 8.44 10 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations,--new language with emphasis and reality.

Elo2 8.114 13 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...

Elo2 8.124 20 The orator must command the whole scale of the language...

Elo2 8.124 22 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.

Elo2 8.125 16 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...

Elo2 8.125 18 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.

Elo2 8.126 1 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

Elo2 8.130 4 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.

Elo2 8.130 12 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.

Elo2 8.131 11 Your argument is ingenious, your language copious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?

Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...

Res 8.145 25 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians to understand their language...

QO 8.186 18 There are many fables which, as they are found in every language...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.

QO 8.193 18 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...or sciences, on us. Such a poem also is language.

QO 8.193 19 Every word in the language has once been used happily.

QO 8.199 23 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...

QO 8.200 12 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited.

PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom.

PPo 8.240 24 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds...

PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the natural topics and language of his wit and perception.

Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...

Imtl 8.349 9 The human mind takes no account of geography, language or legends...

Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.

Chr2 10.91 18 ...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...

Edc1 10.125 6 Language is always wise.

Edc1 10.131 13 In our condition are the roots of language and communication...

Edc1 10.137 11 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.

Edc1 10.145 7 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.

Edc1 10.146 5 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...

Supl 10.164 20 Language should aim to describe the fact.

Supl 10.172 12 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.

SovE 10.186 14 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity). This, in the language of our time, would be ethics.

SovE 10.194 12 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars...become the language of mighty principles.

Prch 10.223 18 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke...

Prch 10.227 24 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language.

MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!

Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.

Plu 10.294 5 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...

Plu 10.321 5 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...

LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.

MMEm 10.403 27 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy...

MMEm 10.406 14 Scorn trifles, lift your aims...these were the lessons which were urged [by Mary Moody Emerson] with vivacity, in ever new language.

LS 11.7 16 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...

LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression.

HDC 11.51 20 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...

HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?

EWI 11.102 8 Language must be raked...to tell what negro slavery has been.

War 11.153 21 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.

War 11.164 8 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with...language, ceremonies, newspapers.

FSLC 11.182 12 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?

FSLC 11.195 3 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.

FSLC 11.203 18 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.

FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.

FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/

FSLN 11.223 12 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!

AsSu 11.251 11 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.

AKan 11.259 18 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant.

AKan 11.261 21 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...

SMC 11.351 5 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have, if I may borrow the old language of the church, converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...

SMC 11.363 4 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language...

Wom 11.409 16 [Women] finish society, manners, language.

RBur 11.442 11 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.

RBur 11.442 15 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man.

FRO1 11.476 8 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./

CPL 11.501 11 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.

CPL 11.502 17 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...

FRep 11.530 6 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

PLT 12.17 18 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair, until he comes to light where language fails him.

PLT 12.26 13 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.

II 12.65 12 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is commonly called Instinct.

II 12.77 3 We call genius, in all our popular and proverbial language, divine;...

Mem 12.100 24 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...

Mem 12.101 3 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.

CL 12.156 15 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...

CL 12.164 4 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...

Bost 12.188 21 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.

Milt1 12.249 15 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language;...

Milt1 12.259 27 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.

Milt1 12.260 8 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...

Milt1 12.261 9 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...

Milt1 12.261 21 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power...

Milt1 12.265 12 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.

Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.

Milt1 12.270 5 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

ACri 12.284 8 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

ACri 12.284 26 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor...

ACri 12.285 17 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.

ACri 12.288 4 The language of the street is always strong.

ACri 12.289 11 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious...

MLit 12.317 25 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market...

WSL 12.338 22 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.

WSL 12.347 19 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.

Pray 12.351 4 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...

EurB 12.367 12 ...Wordsworth...is really a master of the English language...

EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his power of language...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

EurB 12.373 25 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...

Language, n. (1)

Nat 1.12 5 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.

Language-maker, n. (1)

Pt1 3.21 19 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...

languages, n. (25)

Nat 1.1 4 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...

Nat 1.29 11 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.

Nat 1.29 12 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.

MN 1.209 18 That well-known voice speaks in all languages...and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.

Hist 2.38 22 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.

NER 3.258 12 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.

NER 3.258 12 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...

NER 3.269 1 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill, his tongue with languages...

ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages...

ET4 5.50 24 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations,--three languages, three or four nations;...

ET5 5.96 24 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.

ET5 5.98 6 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life.

Ctr 6.147 4 As many languages as [a man] has...so many times is he a man.

Bhr 6.178 27 [Eyes] speak all languages.

WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?

Suc 7.286 8 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold, in all languages...

Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...

Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...

QO 8.177 22 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which they have sought through all libraries, through all languages...

QO 8.181 1 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest, derived from him into all modern languages;...

PC 8.217 10 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic...

Edc1 10.125 22 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in sciences...

Schr 10.277 10 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.

Plu 10.303 15 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages...

ACri 12.285 6 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

languid, adj. (6)

Fdsp 2.215 18 ...next week I shall have languid moods...

MoS 4.154 9 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.

CbW 6.262 7 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.

Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;...

Clbs 7.229 9 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;...

CPL 11.506 25 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure.

languidly, adv. (1)

Exp 3.55 22 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.

languish, v. (1)

Art2 7.56 13 Now [the arts] languish, because their purpose is merely exhibition.

languishing, adj. (1)

Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners...

languor, n. (3)

OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;...

CL 12.155 4 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health, except a slight languor...

CL 12.155 9 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.

Lannes, Jean, n. (2)

NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...

Ctr 6.139 23 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.

Lansdowne House, London, E (1)

ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square...

lantern, n. (2)

Int 2.330 21 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Int 2.332 20 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...

lanterns, n. (1)

PLT 12.21 7 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design.

Laocoon, n. (1)

Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?

Laodamia [William Wordswort (3)

Hsm1 2.247 25 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...

PI 8.33 21 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth,--Laodamia, and the Ode to Dion...

EurB 12.372 22 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia...

Laomedon, n. (1)

Wsp 6.205 17 Laomedon...does not hesitate to menace [Neptune and Apollo]...

Lap, adj. (1)

CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.

lap, n. (4)

SR 2.64 23 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence...

SL 2.147 14 Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own.

SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...

Pow 6.57 6 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for.

lap, v. (1)

LT 1.262 25 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and castles in the air!

lapdog, n. (1)

ET4 5.44 12 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.

lapis Heracleus, n. (1)

ET16 5.282 8 The name of the magnet is lapis Heracleus...

lapis lazuli, n. (1)

Wom 11.412 2 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

Laplace, Pierre Simon, n. (9)

MN 1.212 24 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...

Hist 2.37 8 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.

PNR 4.82 4 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.

F 6.18 7 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus...Laplace, are not new men...

Boks 7.191 12 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...

Grts 8.311 10 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley...Laplace.

Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...judge Laplace...

MoL 10.246 10 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

LLNE 10.347 26 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...

Laps, n. (1)

CL 12.155 12 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.

lapse, n. (1)

SA 8.84 4 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock.

lapse, v. (3)

ET16 5.275 18 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...

PI 8.59 2 [Taliessin says] To another,--When I lapse to a sinful word,/ May neither you, nor others hear./

SovE 10.207 9 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented, and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism.

lapsed, adj. (1)

Comp 2.125 14 ...to us, in our lapsed estate...this growth comes by shocks.

lapses, v. (1)

Wom 11.425 3 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which lapses continually into expediency...

lapsing, v. (3)

Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...

Pol1 3.219 24 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...

Boks 7.212 11 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit...

lapstone, n. (1)

CInt 12.129 12 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch...on a cobbler's lapstone...as on the moon's orbit?

lares [Lars], n. (1)

ET1 5.15 18 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familier objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...

large, adj. (207)

Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...

DSA 1.139 27 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.

LE 1.169 2 That is morning...to become as large as nature.

MN 1.194 9 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell,-so large is thy love and ambition...

MN 1.198 8 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.

MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim, so sacred or so large, that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...

MR 1.243 5 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others...large hospitality...

LT 1.268 14 ...this [conservative] class, however large...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...

LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously concealed...under...large towns and cities...

Hist 2.36 22 Transport [Napoleon] to large countries...and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.

SR 2.51 5 ...how easily we capitulate...to large societies and dead institutions.

SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...looks large...

SL 2.162 21 Heaven is large...

Lov1 2.178 20 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...

Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...

Hsm1 2.253 19 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails.

Cir 2.303 14 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Cir 2.311 13 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.

Cir 2.318 25 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...

Cir 2.321 20 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.

Pt1 3.33 4 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...

Exp 3.83 26 My reception has been so large, that I am not annoyed by receiving this or that superabundantly.

Chr1 3.104 16 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.

Chr1 3.109 3 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.

Mrs1 3.150 3 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.

Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.

NR 3.242 10 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...large as morning or night...

NR 3.242 14 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal;...

NER 3.265 2 ...no society can ever be so large as one man.

UGM 4.6 13 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things...in large relations...

PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large.

SwM 4.98 27 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...

SwM 4.99 1 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.

SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;...

SwM 4.112 24 [Swedenborg] thought as large a demand is made on our faith by nature, as by miracles.

SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...

SwM 4.114 20 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units.

MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire.

MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.

ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.

ShP 4.209 19 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight...in large hospitality...

NMW 4.235 23 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.

NMW 4.239 2 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...

GoW 4.284 11 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature...

ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory large enough for independence...

ET3 5.43 13 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets...

ET6 5.109 19 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...

ET10 5.153 4 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...

ET10 5.162 13 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;...

ET10 5.171 5 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England].

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 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.

ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger.

ET11 5.184 21 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions...

ET11 5.198 8 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging.

ET14 5.257 22 ...he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London...

ET17 5.296 10 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face, his face corrugated, especially the large nose.

ET18 5.306 23 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds.

ET18 5.307 2 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament, when their return by large constituencies would have been doubtful.

F 6.13 13 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress...

F 6.18 22 In a large city, the most casual things...are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.

F 6.21 21 ...we must not run into generalizations too large...

Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...

Pow 6.57 10 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...

Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.

Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...

Wth 6.107 5 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they...in large manufactures, are seen to do.

Wth 6.113 7 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.

Wth 6.117 10 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;...

Wth 6.117 21 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.

Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money.

Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.

Ctr 6.148 9 A man should live in or near a large town...

Bhr 6.173 12 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;...

Bhr 6.187 22 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures...

Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...

Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting...

Bhr 6.197 5 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.

Wsp 6.208 6 In our large cities the population is godless...

Wsp 6.222 13 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...

Wsp 6.222 14 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities,--none large enough to hide in;...

Bty 6.282 12 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations...

Ill 6.311 8 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too large.

SS 7.8 7 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.

Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...

Art2 7.38 17 A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done...

Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man...

Elo1 7.67 21 When each auditor feels himself to make too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.

Elo1 7.69 14 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].

Elo1 7.74 9 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop...

Elo1 7.75 16 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.

Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.

Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...

Farm 7.142 1 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure...

Farm 7.142 2 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure...

Farm 7.150 1 ...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.

Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...

Clbs 7.225 13 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.

Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.

Clbs 7.233 14 There must be large reception as well as giving.

Clbs 7.236 14 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.

Cour 7.257 22 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.

Cour 7.276 15 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men...

Suc 7.298 9 In Nature all is large massive repose.

OA 7.332 11 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair...

PI 8.18 7 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity.

PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.

PI 8.41 24 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...

SA 8.99 9 The way to have large occasional views...is to have large habitual views.

SA 8.99 11 The way to have large occasional views...to have large habitual views.

Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...

Res 8.151 2 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars...cannot satisfy.

QO 8.177 18 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...

QO 8.178 19 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality.

PC 8.210 1 Mark...the large resources of a statesman...in this age.

PC 8.230 24 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;...

PPo 8.238 21 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.

PPo 8.247 18 ...a large utterance, a river that makes its own shores...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...

Insp 8.294 6 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...

Insp 8.297 2 Large estates...would have been impediments to [scholars].

Grts 8.309 22 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...

Grts 8.316 13 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...

Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...

Imtl 8.338 5 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous...

Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man...a man of large affairs, an inventor... considers his work...as far short of what it should be.

Dem1 10.3 17 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./

Dem1 10.24 4 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.

Aris 10.34 20 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation...would be a price too large.

Aris 10.43 9 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;...

Aris 10.55 15 ...the thought has...large leisures and an inviting future.

Aris 10.64 16 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests...

Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.

Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of trade...

Chr2 10.101 18 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.

Edc1 10.148 6 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind...is not to be trusted to any skill less large than Nature itself.

Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...

Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...

Prch 10.230 18 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.

MoL 10.255 7 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...

Plu 10.305 1 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.

Plu 10.306 13 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers.

Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy.

LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids...

LLNE 10.339 12 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.

LLNE 10.340 20 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.

LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

LLNE 10.357 27 The large cities are phalansteries;...

LLNE 10.362 7 Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...

EzRy 10.382 20 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...

EzRy 10.388 4 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you...

MMEm 10.408 14 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation.

MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...

SlHr 10.440 2 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.

SlHr 10.440 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.

SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.

SlHr 10.444 6 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection!

Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...

Thor 10.459 6 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...

Thor 10.472 21 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed; none in a more large and religious synthesis.

Thor 10.473 14 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.

Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond.

Thor 10.484 22 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...

GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...

HDC 11.31 21 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.

HDC 11.32 12 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.

HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...

HDC 11.48 15 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; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...

HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...

HDC 11.72 21 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]...

HDC 11.79 8 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large...

HDC 11.81 6 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...

HDC 11.85 18 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been, in having received so large an infusion of the spirit of both of those periods [the Planting and the Revolution of the colony].

EWI 11.113 22 After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] passed by large majorities.

War 11.154 24 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large.

War 11.174 25 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...

FSLC 11.202 22 We delighted...in [Webster's] large understanding...

FSLC 11.204 5 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm...

FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...

FSLN 11.223 19 ...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...

AsSu 11.249 25 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.

JBB 11.270 9 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief.

EPro 11.318 1 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...

EPro 11.323 21 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-field would have been at least as large in that event as it is now.

SHC 11.432 1 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...when they are disposed in masses and in large spaces.

SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...

Scot 11.465 7 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.

FRO1 11.478 9 The church is not large enough for the man;...

CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...

FRep 11.528 23 We have eight or ten religions in every large town...

FRep 11.531 19 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same as he can carve for himself...

FRep 11.543 6 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction. Nothing less large than justice can keep them in good temper.

II 12.67 15 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading.

Mem 12.101 9 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.

Mem 12.110 4 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large.

CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...

CL 12.160 11 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature] shows every fact in large bodies somewhere.

Bost 12.189 26 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields...

Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...

MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine...

Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part.

ACri 12.294 25 Shakspeare is nothing but a large utterance.

ACri 12.298 26 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...

AgMs 12.359 10 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family...

Let 12.394 17 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...

large, adv. (1)

FRO2 11.491 4 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.

large, n. (17)

LE 1.172 11 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.

Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.

Chr1 3.96 4 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...

NR 3.241 13 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room; they spread themselves at large.

NER 3.264 4 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large.

PNR 4.82 24 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;...

PNR 4.82 25 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;...

SwM 4.106 18 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;...

Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large;...

Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...

Farm 7.141 14 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.

Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...

MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...

EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...

Koss 11.398 18 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.

Let 12.398 20 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only...widens the feeling of hostility between them and the citizens at large.

largely, adv. (12)

YA 1.378 5 Feudalism is not ended yet. Our governments still partake largely of that element.

NR 3.231 27 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...

SwM 4.144 17 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.

NMW 4.227 6 [A man of Napoleon's stamp] is so largely receptive, and is so placed, that he comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.

ET5 5.89 2 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return.

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

Ctr 6.158 23 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...

PI 8.39 24 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.

LLNE 10.335 11 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...

LS 11.10 1 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols. It was the national way of teaching, and was largely used by him.

AKan 11.257 4 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men.

JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father, largely interested as a raiser of stock, became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

large-natured, adj. (1)

ET8 5.128 11 [The English] are large-natured...

largeness, n. (10)

Tran 1.337 20 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness.

Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.

UGM 4.20 7 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...by the largeness of their reception were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.

ET14 5.258 20 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.

Bty 6.304 3 [Chosen men and women] have a largeness of suggestion...

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...

PI 8.57 1 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy...

PPo 8.237 15 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the largeness of the field...

Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?

TPar 11.286 13 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...

larger, adj. (84)

LE 1.164 27 [The growth of the intellect] is larger reception.

MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.

Tran 1.357 21 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge, and deserve a larger power.

Tran 1.359 5 ...when every voice is raised...for a new house or a larger business;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?

Fdsp 2.196 2 Our own thought sounds new and larger from [our friend's] mouth.

OS 2.277 5 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.

OS 2.288 17 [Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Cir 2.304 3 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...

Art1 2.352 5 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.

Nat2 3.175 14 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...

PPh 4.42 18 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy...

SwM 4.98 24 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.

SwM 4.114 9 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones...

MoS 4.176 22 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.

MoS 4.185 5 Man helps himself by larger generalizations.

ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...

ShP 4.218 19 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.

NMW 4.230 8 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.

NMW 4.243 19 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.

ET1 5.5 7 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one...a larger horizon.

ET3 5.37 15 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.

ET4 5.65 12 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans. Yet, I am told, the skeleton is not larger.

ET5 5.88 5 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;...

ET8 5.136 25 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power.

ET10 5.168 4 In true England all is false and forged. This too is the reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce.

ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger.

ET11 5.187 10 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon;...

ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.

ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale...

ET14 5.239 9 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class...

ET14 5.250 23 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...

Wth 6.85 14 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.

Wth 6.117 14 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops?

Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body...

Ctr 6.145 22 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.

Bhr 6.189 15 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.

CbW 6.251 9 The good men are employed...for larger influence.

CbW 6.256 22 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Florence Nightingale, or any lover, less or larger, compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...

Bty 6.282 26 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Bty 6.306 21 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.

Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.

Ill 6.320 16 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

Art2 7.44 22 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.

Farm 7.149 5 The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it, and the larger the crop.

Clbs 7.235 14 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science,--which are only less or larger theatres for this competition.

Clbs 7.236 5 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers, showing that he saw at a larger angle of vision...

Cour 7.258 20 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;...

OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

OA 7.319 10 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time] are drunk with it...

PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.

PI 8.68 7 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands.

PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn around it.

SA 8.102 9 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.

Elo2 8.116 24 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people]...with...his larger view...

Res 8.149 26 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.

PC 8.228 18 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights.

PC 8.229 8 Every generalization shows the way to a larger.

PC 8.230 10 ...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...

Imtl 8.337 8 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...

Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him.

SovE 10.183 5 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...

Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica. The territory of scholars is yet larger.

LLNE 10.359 1 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships. Why not have a larger one...

HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...

Wom 11.408 2 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.

Shak1 11.446 4 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...

Scot 11.465 1 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.

FRO1 11.478 17 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...

FRO2 11.488 21 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger cause than is necessary to the effect.

FRep 11.512 22 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds.

FRep 11.514 12 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...

PLT 12.19 7 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...

PLT 12.41 21 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand, which is to lead to a larger perception...

PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.

PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...

CInt 12.117 23 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe and his generosity larger than mine;...

CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...

CL 12.166 12 ...of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half.

Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...

MAng1 12.231 19 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.

ACri 12.295 16 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...

PPr 12.380 8 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into...a larger and juster totality than any other.

Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

largest, adj. (33)

Nat 1.24 18 Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe.

Pt1 3.6 17 The poet is...the man...who...is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.

Exp 3.57 26 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...

Chr1 3.89 21 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance. The largest part of their power was latent.

NER 3.279 2 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.

SwM 4.105 2 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...

SwM 4.105 6 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?

SwM 4.135 4 The genius of Swedenborg, largest of all modern souls in this [Hebraic] department of thought, wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...

SwM 4.139 3 The largest is always the truest sentiment...

MoS 4.185 1 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.

ET1 5.14 13 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse...

ET3 5.38 21 Here [in England] is...a temperature which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.

ET16 5.283 14 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...

Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent...

Wth 6.110 17 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.

Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large;...

Bty 6.290 9 It is a rule of largest application...that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.

Elo1 7.62 25 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...

Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator, in the largest style...

WD 7.176 14 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.

PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the largest interpretation.

PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn around it.

Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents.

Chr2 10.115 24 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...

GSt 10.502 20 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57, [George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first.

EWI 11.103 19 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest.

SMC 11.351 14 ...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.

CPL 11.502 2 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?

FRep 11.530 8 ...the largest thought and the widest love are born to victory...

FRep 11.530 17 ...the great interests of mankind, being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.

FRep 11.541 3 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

CL 12.135 18 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.

MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense...this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.

lark, n. (1)

CPL 11.499 24 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark...

larks, n. (2)

ET16 5.277 18 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;...

ET16 5.277 19 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.

larning, n. (1)

HDC 11.65 11 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...

Lars [lares], n. (2)

ET1 5.15 18 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...

Dem1 10.2 4 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./

larvae, n. (1)

PPr 12.382 6 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...

Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1)

CPL 11.504 24 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable, as reported by Las Casas;...

Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1)

SR 2.87 5 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...

Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1)

NMW 4.237 15 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...

lascivious, n. (1)

SwM 4.131 24 [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;...he saw...the hell of the lascivious;...

lash, n. (1)

Comp 2.120 3 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;...

lash, v. (5)

LT 1.262 23 How [persons] lash us with those tongues!

Pol1 3.209 21 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...

WD 7.172 23 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...

OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...

Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.

lashed, v. (1)

ET5 5.88 1 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.

lashes, v. (1)

Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the wave which lashes incessantly the rock...

lassitude, n. (1)

NMW 4.249 9 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.

lasso, n. (1)

ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by lasso...all the game that is in nature.

last, adj. (390)

Nat 1.17 21 Not less excellent...was the charm, last evening, of a January sunset.

Nat 1.24 25 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.

Nat 1.29 15 ...as [idiomatic language] is the first language, so is it the last.

Nat 1.33 21 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;...

Nat 1.34 26 A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit.

Nat 1.40 14 ...the world becomes at last only a realized will...

Nat 1.42 8 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

Nat 1.58 7 The first and last lesson of religion is, The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal.

AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...

AmS 1.87 10 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.

AmS 1.100 2 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.

AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe...

AmS 1.109 22 Sight is the last thing to be pitied.

DSA 1.123 3 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life...is at last as sure as in the soul.

LE 1.159 18 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand.

LE 1.169 6 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up from the ruins of the trees of the last millenium;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

LE 1.171 7 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last.

LE 1.171 13 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain, and the gold and diamonds would remain in the last colander.

MN 1.198 6 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely. Through them we express, at last, the fact that God has done thus or thus.

MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.

MN 1.204 12 ...at last, what has [man] to recite but the fact that there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?

MN 1.205 2 The termination of the world in a man appears to be the last victory of intelligence.

MN 1.210 5 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice...at last is but a humming in his ears.

MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...

LT 1.264 8 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.

LT 1.268 9 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...

LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age...

LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...

LT 1.282 7 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity (which we all at last believe in) is fair and beneficent.

LT 1.288 25 ...we...do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one;...

Con 1.297 20 Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

Con 1.315 7 When he came at last to Rome, [Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...

Con 1.315 20 ...we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening.

Con 1.315 23 ...last evening our family was collected...

Con 1.323 19 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power.

Tran 1.331 24 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...

Tran 1.343 9 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...

Tran 1.345 14 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?

Tran 1.346 16 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.

Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...

YA 1.368 15 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work. In the last case the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice his equal...

YA 1.376 22 ...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of their own;...

Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?

Hist 2.17 27 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...

Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?

SR 2.50 11 Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

SR 2.51 12 If an angry bigot...comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...

SR 2.52 1 I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last...

SR 2.64 9 In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.

SR 2.68 16 And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...

SR 2.73 26 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.

SR 2.81 27 I...at last wake up in Naples...

SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...

Comp 2.94 22 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?

Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal and was crushed to death beneath its fall.

Comp 2.113 13 You must pay at last your own debt.

SL 2.137 26 The simplicity of nature...is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

SL 2.148 27 [A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances.

Lov1 2.170 25 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.

Lov1 2.186 2 [The soul] arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys...

Lov1 2.187 14 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous...

Fdsp 2.193 6 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.

Fdsp 2.202 16 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...

Fdsp 2.212 23 In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Prd1 2.229 8 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.

Prd1 2.230 19 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.

Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...

Prd1 2.241 2 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...at last...

Hsm1 2.246 22 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./

Hsm1 2.246 27 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./

Hsm1 2.247 22 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.

Hsm1 2.251 24 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last...

Hsm1. 2.252 1 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.

Hsm1 2.255 10 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade.

OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.

Cir 2.306 12 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and... if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise.

Cir 2.306 13 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;...

Cir 2.306 14 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;...

Cir 2.307 5 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.

Cir 2.310 24 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.

Cir 2.315 21 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.

Int 2.331 4 At last comes the era of reflection...

Int 2.338 17 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last.

Int 2.340 6 ...at last we discover that our curve is a parabola...

Int 2.343 14 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new.

Int 2.345 10 Anyhow, when at last it is done, you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.

Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...

Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.

Art1 2.358 7 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...

Art1 2.359 2 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Art1 2.361 5 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...

Pt1 3.23 26 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged.

Pt1 3.34 13 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.

Pt1 3.35 14 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

Pt1 3.39 26 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.

Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own;...

Exp 3.48 3 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction...

Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...

Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.

Exp 3.69 16 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.

Exp 3.78 27 No man at last believes that he can be lost...

Exp 3.85 15 Patience and patience, we shall win at the last.

Chr1 3.96 10 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.

Chr1 3.108 6 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.

Chr1 3.114 27 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.

Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.

Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first.

Mrs1 3.145 17 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.

Nat2 3.180 26 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...

Nat2 3.187 5 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.

Pol1 3.203 19 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...

NER 3.251 3 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.

NER 3.255 2 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.

NER 3.257 14 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...

NER 3.259 9 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.

NER 3.278 17 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.

NER 3.282 10 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house! but at last it appears that he is the true man, and I am the traitor.

NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...

NER 3.283 15 ...[men] believe...that right is done at last;...

UGM 4.13 23 If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as it found me...

UGM 4.20 25 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.

UGM 4.27 10 Every hero becomes a bore at last.

UGM 4.31 23 All men are at last of a size;...

UGM 4.32 3 Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.

UGM 4.34 17 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...

PPh 4.47 17 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...

PPh 4.51 25 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...

SwM 4.108 13 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last.

SwM 4.109 4 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.

SwM 4.111 6 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...

SwM 4.115 18 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial: last, the perpetual-celestial, or spiritual.

SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...

SwM 4.122 3 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church...

SwM 4.123 8 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

SwM 4.131 15 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit, each more abominable than the last, round every new crew of offenders.

SwM 4.133 20 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last.

SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...is it the last profanation.

SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment (or the last of the judgments) took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.

SwM 4.145 15 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.

MoS 4.154 8 Our meat will taste to-morrow as it did yesterday, and we may at last have had enough of it.

MoS 4.155 15 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river...

MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency.

MoS 4.181 7 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...

MoS 4.181 14 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...

MoS 4.186 10

Landscape to Lasts A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Compiled by Eugene F. Irey landscape, n. (94) Nat 1.8 14 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Nat 1.8 18 Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. Nat 1.10 18 In the tranquil landscape...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. Nat 1.11 15 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical. Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. Nat 1.23 23 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. Nat 1.51 11 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture... Nat 1.65 15 Is not the landscape...a face of [God]? Nat 1.65 18 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by. Nat 1.67 11 When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity. DSA 1.133 26 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part... of the landscape... MN 1.201 13 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals. MN 1.214 9 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. MR 1.245 6 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them... LT 1.262 10 ...trees...constitute the hospitality of the landscape... YA 1.368 3 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it... YA 1.369 14 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape. YA 1.384 19 ...the landscape seems to crave Government. OS 2.274 6 The landscape, the figures...are facts as fugitive as any institution past... OS 2.290 16 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape...they enjoyed yesterday... Art1 2.351 12 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;... Art1 2.352 8 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures... Art1 2.355 14 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...a landscape... Art1 2.356 20 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell. Pt1 3.19 3 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;... Exp 3.62 24 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin... Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house to adorn the landscape and strengthen the laws. Chr1 3.109 4 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place. Nat2 3.170 22 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind... Nat2 3.176 2 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off. Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth... Nat2 3.176 15 The difference between landscape and landscape is small... Nat2 3.176 16 The difference between landscape and landscape is small... Nat2 3.176 18 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Nat2 3.176 19 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. Nat2 3.178 7 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself. Nat2 3.192 11 This disappointment is felt in every landscape. Nat2 3.193 10 Is it that beauty...in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible? NR 3.229 20 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape. NR 3.237 6 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape... SwM 4.128 18 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate... 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. ShP 4.211 19 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape. ET3 5.42 14 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay... ET6 5.114 23 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken country makes picturesque landscape;... ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses... F 6.48 10 I do not wonder at...a summer landscape... Ctr 6.129 6 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky/... Bhr 6.196 26 Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape... Bty 6.304 26 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape... Bty 6.306 14 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through fair outlines and details of the landscape... Art2 7.44 9 In painting, bright colors stimulate the eye before yet they are harmonized into a landscape. Art2 7.45 3 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. Art2 7.46 5 [The temple] is exalted by...the landscape around it... Farm 7.135 2 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is an armory of powers/... Farm 7.153 7 ...[the farmer] changes the face of the landscape. WD 7.180 10 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape... Boks 7.199 14 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape. Suc 7.298 4 What is it we look for in the landscape... PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten. PI 8.26 5 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in the landscape... PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted. PI 8.45 13 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony... Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind. Insp 8.291 1 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds...used to say the human face was his landscape. Insp 8.296 9 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound... Dem1 10.5 9 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem not to fit us... Chr2 10.101 4 ...[the man of profound moral sentiment] lights up the house or the landscape in which he stands. Edc1 10.129 20 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me? MMEm 10.414 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...speaking sadly the thoughts suggested by the rich autumn landscape around her... HDC 11.38 23 The landscape before [the settlers of Concord] was fair, if it was strange and rude. FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which robs the landscape of beauty... FSLN 11.221 16 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men...was a fit figure in the landscape. SMC 11.350 26 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age. SHC 11.431 7 ...[trees] make the landscape;... RBur 11.441 25 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them... II 12.65 23 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed and revealed the dusky landscape of his life. CL 12.140 24 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape... CL 12.151 24 In August...we observe already...that a change has passed on the landscape. CL 12.156 24 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape? CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. CL 12.158 4 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. CL 12.158 6 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture! It changes the landscape from November into June. CL 12.164 23 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape. CL 12.166 20 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;... CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying,-what reaches of landscape... CW 12.177 10 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the landscape is his. ACri 12.305 6 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton. WSL 12.345 19 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape? WSL 12.347 3 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded... PPr 12.389 8 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape... landscape-garden, n. (1) Pt1 3.9 16 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house... landscape-painting, n. (1) ACri 12.302 19 [Channing] thinks...that the only art is landscape-painting. landscapes, n. (3) Art1 2.351 8 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. SwM 4.143 9 It is the best sign of a great nature that it...like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward. CL 12.159 7 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen...these we call professors. Landseer, Edwin, n. (1) SL 2.143 4 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and Landseer out of swine... land-slide, n. (1) ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide... landsman, n. (1) ET2 5.30 6 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage; and of this no landsman seems so fearful as the seaman. landsmen, n. (2) Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. QO 8.203 11 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries...healthily receive and report what they saw... land-surveyor, n. (1) Thor 10.453 21 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor. land-title, n. (1) YA 1.383 19 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;... land-war, n. (1) Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign, sea-war and land-war... Lane, Drury, Theatre, Lond (1) ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted. Lane, Lundy's, Canada, n. (1) Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane... lane, n. (2) ET14 5.232 22 The English muse loves the farmyard, the lane and market. Wom 11.410 3 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;... lanes, n. (3) Thor 10.468 17 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens... CL 12.156 9 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea. CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...what fields and lanes for a tramp. lang, adj. (1) MoS 4.153 18 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/... lang synes, Auld, n. (1) RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to! Langdon ("), n. (1) HDC 11.86 5 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. language, n. (204) Nat 1.4 22 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language... Nat 1.25 1 Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nat 1.25 12 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation. Nat 1.26 3 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed;... Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, - so conspicuous a fact in the history of language, - is our least debt to nature. Nat 1.27 17 ...man in all ages and countries embodies [Spirit] in his language as the FATHER. Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque... Nat 1.29 14 ...as [idiomatic language] is the first language, so is it the last. Nat 1.29 15 This immediate dependence of language upon nature...never loses its power to affect us. Nat 1.29 27 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. Nat 1.30 18 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country... Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God. Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! Nat 1.58 12 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;... Nat 1.62 3 ...when we try to define and describe [God], both language and thought desert us... AmS 1.98 6 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions. AmS 1.98 14 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made. AmS 1.103 12 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks... AmS 1.103 13 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent...of all into whose language his own can be translated. DSA 1.129 13 The idioms of [Jesus's] language...have usurped the place of his truth;... DSA 1.131 1 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship... LE 1.176 27 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine... MN 1.195 4 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought. MN 1.198 22 Language overstates. MN 1.206 9 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;... LT 1.279 4 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. Tran 1.330 15 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts, degrading these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;... Fdsp 2.191 10 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. Fdsp 2.201 7 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common... OS 2.271 19 Language cannot paint [this pure nature] with [man's] colors. OS 2.282 14 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul. Int 2.335 19 We must learn the language of facts. Int 2.347 7 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men... Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. Pt1 3.9 7 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise. Pt1 3.17 3 Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;... Pt1 3.21 24 ...language is the archives of history... Pt1 3.22 5 Language is fossil poetry. Pt1 3.22 8 ...language is made up of images or tropes... Pt1 3.34 16 ...all language is vehicular and transitive... Pt1 3.35 15 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. Exp 3.79 7 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect. Exp 3.79 26 ...use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are;... Mrs1 3.119 23 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds. Nat2 3.190 13 Our music, our poetry, our language itself are not satisfactions... NR 3.230 20 We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language... NR 3.230 25 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched. NR 3.231 1 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses. UGM 4.3 17 [Great men's] names are wrought into the verbs of language... UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language... PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom. PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal. PPh 4.56 10 Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive. SwM 4.94 23 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us? SwM 4.116 26 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. SwM 4.132 10 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted. SwM 4.142 1 When [Swedenborg] mounts into the heaven, I do not hear its language. MoS 4.149 21 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;... MoS 4.150 14 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions... MoS 4.168 10 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. ShP 4.199 27 Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language. ShP 4.200 15 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern. ShP 4.212 14 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit. ET1 5.3 16 The shop-signs spoke our language;... ET1 5.17 9 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted. ET4 5.45 8 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000... ET4 5.50 22 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;... ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language... ET4 5.60 20 [The Normans] had...learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls, and had acquired, with the language, all the vices it had names for. ET5 5.75 10 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;... ET5 5.78 12 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie. ET5 5.100 8 ...in England, the language of the noble is the language of the poor. ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;... ET5 5.100 13 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott. ET7 5.118 26 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying. ET8 5.137 3 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own. ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language. ET10 5.154 21 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it. ET11 5.173 24 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry. ET11 5.173 26 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician. ET14 5.234 26 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words... ET14 5.246 15 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts. ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's]. ET18 5.303 10 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men. Bhr 6.169 5 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. This silent and subtile language is Manners;... Bhr 6.180 4 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first. Wsp 6.222 5 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. Wsp 6.226 25 Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. CbW 6.254 3 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird... Bty 6.304 14 All the facts in nature...make the grammar of the eternal language. Civ 7.20 27 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must...have the sympathy, language and gods of those he would inform. Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers... Art2 7.37 5 ...[all the departments of life] translate each into a new language the sense of the other. Art2 7.40 2 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;... Art2 7.43 17 The basis of poetry is language... Art2 7.50 16 The whole language of men...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate... Elo1 7.67 5 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time... DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle... WD 7.163 10 ...we have language,--the finest tool of all... WD 7.171 26 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world. PI 8.15 22 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language... PI 8.34 10 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought. PI 8.38 7 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws... PI 8.39 2 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation... when the poet invents the fable, and invents the language which his heroes speak. PI 8.44 10 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations,--new language with emphasis and reality. Elo2 8.114 13 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;... Elo2 8.124 20 The orator must command the whole scale of the language... Elo2 8.124 22 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy. Elo2 8.125 16 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language... Elo2 8.125 18 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. Elo2 8.126 1 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. Elo2 8.130 4 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer. Elo2 8.130 12 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer. Elo2 8.131 11 Your argument is ingenious, your language copious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie? Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;... Res 8.145 25 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians to understand their language... QO 8.186 18 There are many fables which, as they are found in every language...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. QO 8.193 18 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...or sciences, on us. Such a poem also is language. QO 8.193 19 Every word in the language has once been used happily. QO 8.199 23 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;... QO 8.200 12 ...our language, our science, our religion, our opinions, our fancies we inherited. PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom. PPo 8.240 24 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds... PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the natural topics and language of his wit and perception. Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose... Imtl 8.349 9 The human mind takes no account of geography, language or legends... Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind. Chr2 10.91 18 ...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number... Edc1 10.125 6 Language is always wise. Edc1 10.131 13 In our condition are the roots of language and communication... Edc1 10.137 11 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions. Edc1 10.145 7 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will. Edc1 10.146 5 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;... Supl 10.164 20 Language should aim to describe the fact. Supl 10.172 12 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech. SovE 10.186 14 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity). This, in the language of our time, would be ethics. SovE 10.194 12 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars...become the language of mighty principles. Prch 10.223 18 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke... Prch 10.227 24 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language. MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia! Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties. Plu 10.294 5 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;... Plu 10.321 5 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language... LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language. MMEm 10.403 27 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy... MMEm 10.406 14 Scorn trifles, lift your aims...these were the lessons which were urged [by Mary Moody Emerson] with vivacity, in ever new language. LS 11.7 16 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use of such language from Jesus, a friend to his friends;... LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression. HDC 11.51 20 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;... HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language? EWI 11.102 8 Language must be raked...to tell what negro slavery has been. War 11.153 21 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India. War 11.164 8 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with...language, ceremonies, newspapers. FSLC 11.182 12 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people? FSLC 11.195 3 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment. FSLC 11.203 18 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country. FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas. FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/ FSLN 11.223 12 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear! AsSu 11.251 11 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew. AKan 11.259 18 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant. AKan 11.261 21 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;... SMC 11.351 5 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have, if I may borrow the old language of the church, converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;... SMC 11.363 4 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language... Wom 11.409 16 [Women] finish society, manners, language. RBur 11.442 11 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life. RBur 11.442 15 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man. FRO1 11.476 8 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./ CPL 11.501 11 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken. CPL 11.502 17 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words... FRep 11.530 6 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;... PLT 12.17 18 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair, until he comes to light where language fails him. PLT 12.26 13 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less. II 12.65 12 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is commonly called Instinct. II 12.77 3 We call genius, in all our popular and proverbial language, divine;... Mem 12.100 24 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words... Mem 12.101 3 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence. CL 12.156 15 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company... CL 12.164 4 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language... Bost 12.188 21 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America. MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so. Milt1 12.249 15 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language;... Milt1 12.259 27 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language. Milt1 12.260 8 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Milt1 12.261 9 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music... Milt1 12.261 21 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power... Milt1 12.265 12 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language. Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language. Milt1 12.270 5 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption. ACri 12.284 8 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. ACri 12.284 26 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor... ACri 12.285 17 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people. ACri 12.288 4 The language of the street is always strong. ACri 12.289 11 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious... MLit 12.317 25 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market... WSL 12.338 22 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language. WSL 12.347 19 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion. Pray 12.351 4 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion... EurB 12.367 12 ...Wordsworth...is really a master of the English language... EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his power of language...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories... EurB 12.373 25 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country... Language, n. (1) Nat 1.12 5 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline. Language-maker, n. (1) Pt1 3.21 19 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker... languages, n. (25) Nat 1.1 4 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/... Nat 1.29 11 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages. Nat 1.29 12 ...the idioms of all languages approach each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power. MN 1.209 18 That well-known voice speaks in all languages...and none ever caught a glimpse of its form. Hist 2.38 22 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. NER 3.258 12 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages. NER 3.258 12 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius... NER 3.269 1 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill, his tongue with languages... ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages... ET4 5.50 24 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations,--three languages, three or four nations;... ET5 5.96 24 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris. ET5 5.98 6 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life. Ctr 6.147 4 As many languages as [a man] has...so many times is he a man. Bhr 6.178 27 [Eyes] speak all languages. WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths? Suc 7.286 8 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold, in all languages... Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;... Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;... QO 8.177 22 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which they have sought through all libraries, through all languages... QO 8.181 1 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest, derived from him into all modern languages;... PC 8.217 10 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic... Edc1 10.125 22 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in sciences... Schr 10.277 10 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man. Plu 10.303 15 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages... ACri 12.285 6 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one. languid, adj. (6) Fdsp 2.215 18 ...next week I shall have languid moods... MoS 4.154 9 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter. CbW 6.262 7 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity. Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid pleasure;... Clbs 7.229 9 Later, when books tire, thought has a more languid flow;... CPL 11.506 25 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. languidly, adv. (1) Exp 3.55 22 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius. languish, v. (1) Art2 7.56 13 Now [the arts] languish, because their purpose is merely exhibition. languishing, adj. (1) Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners... languor, n. (3) OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;... CL 12.155 4 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health, except a slight languor... CL 12.155 9 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. Lannes, Jean, n. (2) NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc... Ctr 6.139 23 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid. Lansdowne House, London, E (1) ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square... lantern, n. (2) Int 2.330 21 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. Int 2.332 20 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind... lanterns, n. (1) PLT 12.21 7 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design. Laocoon, n. (1) Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? Laodamia [William Wordswort (3) Hsm1 2.247 25 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;... PI 8.33 21 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth,--Laodamia, and the Ode to Dion... EurB 12.372 22 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia... Laomedon, n. (1) Wsp 6.205 17 Laomedon...does not hesitate to menace [Neptune and Apollo]... Lap, adj. (1) CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter. lap, n. (4) SR 2.64 23 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence... SL 2.147 14 Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own. SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;... Pow 6.57 6 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for. lap, v. (1) LT 1.262 25 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and castles in the air! lapdog, n. (1) ET4 5.44 12 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog. lapis Heracleus, n. (1) ET16 5.282 8 The name of the magnet is lapis Heracleus... lapis lazuli, n. (1) Wom 11.412 2 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./ Laplace, Pierre Simon, n. (9) MN 1.212 24 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls... Hist 2.37 8 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas. PNR 4.82 4 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace. F 6.18 7 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus...Laplace, are not new men... Boks 7.191 12 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;... Grts 8.311 10 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley...Laplace. Grts 8.311 23 [The scholar's] courage is to...judge Laplace... MoL 10.246 10 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities. LLNE 10.347 26 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery... Laps, n. (1) CL 12.155 12 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe. lapse, n. (1) SA 8.84 4 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. lapse, v. (3) ET16 5.275 18 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;... PI 8.59 2 [Taliessin says] To another,--When I lapse to a sinful word,/ May neither you, nor others hear./ SovE 10.207 9 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented, and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism. lapsed, adj. (1) Comp 2.125 14 ...to us, in our lapsed estate...this growth comes by shocks. lapses, v. (1) Wom 11.425 3 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which lapses continually into expediency... lapsing, v. (3) Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy... Pol1 3.219 24 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;... Boks 7.212 11 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit... lapstone, n. (1) CInt 12.129 12 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch...on a cobbler's lapstone...as on the moon's orbit? lares [Lars], n. (1) ET1 5.15 18 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familier objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs... large, adj. (207) Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds... DSA 1.139 27 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions. LE 1.169 2 That is morning...to become as large as nature. MN 1.194 9 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell,-so large is thy love and ambition... MN 1.198 8 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope. MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim, so sacred or so large, that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion... MR 1.243 5 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others...large hospitality... LT 1.268 14 ...this [conservative] class, however large...blends itself with the brute forces of nature... LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously concealed...under...large towns and cities... Hist 2.36 22 Transport [Napoleon] to large countries...and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon. SR 2.51 5 ...how easily we capitulate...to large societies and dead institutions. SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...looks large... SL 2.162 21 Heaven is large... Lov1 2.178 20 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane... Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures... Hsm1 2.253 19 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. Cir 2.303 14 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop. Cir 2.311 13 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions. Cir 2.318 25 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself... Cir 2.321 20 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. Pt1 3.33 4 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;... Exp 3.83 26 My reception has been so large, that I am not annoyed by receiving this or that superabundantly. Chr1 3.104 16 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know. Chr1 3.109 3 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place. Mrs1 3.150 3 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall. Nat2 3.180 2 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. NR 3.242 10 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature...large as morning or night... NR 3.242 14 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal;... NER 3.265 2 ...no society can ever be so large as one man. UGM 4.6 13 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things...in large relations... PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. SwM 4.98 27 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water... SwM 4.99 1 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds. SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;... SwM 4.112 24 [Swedenborg] thought as large a demand is made on our faith by nature, as by miracles. SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms... SwM 4.114 20 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units. MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it. ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced. ShP 4.209 19 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight...in large hospitality... NMW 4.235 23 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough. NMW 4.239 2 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself... GoW 4.284 11 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature... ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory large enough for independence... ET3 5.43 13 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets... ET6 5.109 19 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other... ET10 5.153 4 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property... ET10 5.162 13 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;... ET10 5.171 5 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. 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 5.177 4 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands. ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger. ET11 5.184 21 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions... ET11 5.198 8 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging. ET14 5.257 22 ...he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London... ET17 5.296 10 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face, his face corrugated, especially the large nose. ET18 5.306 23 ...the feudal system can be seen with less pain on large historical grounds. ET18 5.307 2 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament, when their return by large constituencies would have been doubtful. F 6.13 13 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress... F 6.18 22 In a large city, the most casual things...are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast. F 6.21 21 ...we must not run into generalizations too large... Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries... Pow 6.57 10 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish... Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy. Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind... Wth 6.107 5 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price, as they...in large manufactures, are seen to do. Wth 6.113 7 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses. Wth 6.117 10 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;... Wth 6.117 21 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. Wth 6.124 11 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away. Ctr 6.148 9 A man should live in or near a large town... Bhr 6.173 12 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;... Bhr 6.187 22 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures... Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house... Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting... Bhr 6.197 5 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you. Wsp 6.208 6 In our large cities the population is godless... Wsp 6.222 13 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities... Wsp 6.222 14 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities,--none large enough to hide in;... Bty 6.282 12 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations... Ill 6.311 8 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too large. SS 7.8 7 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person. Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;... Art2 7.38 17 A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done... Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man... Elo1 7.67 21 When each auditor feels himself to make too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Elo1 7.69 14 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence]. Elo1 7.74 9 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop... Elo1 7.75 16 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service. Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes. Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for... Farm 7.142 1 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure... Farm 7.142 2 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure... Farm 7.150 1 ...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. Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;... Clbs 7.225 13 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours. Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him. Clbs 7.233 14 There must be large reception as well as giving. Clbs 7.236 14 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm. Cour 7.257 22 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless. Cour 7.276 15 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men... Suc 7.298 9 In Nature all is large massive repose. OA 7.332 11 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... PI 8.18 7 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity. PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. PI 8.41 24 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows... SA 8.99 9 The way to have large occasional views...is to have large habitual views. SA 8.99 11 The way to have large occasional views...to have large habitual views. Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;... Res 8.151 2 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars...cannot satisfy. QO 8.177 18 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?... QO 8.178 19 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. PC 8.210 1 Mark...the large resources of a statesman...in this age. PC 8.230 24 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;... PPo 8.238 21 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other. PPo 8.247 18 ...a large utterance, a river that makes its own shores...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies... Insp 8.294 6 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind... Insp 8.297 2 Large estates...would have been impediments to [scholars]. Grts 8.309 22 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation... Grts 8.316 13 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting... Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;... Imtl 8.338 5 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous... Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man...a man of large affairs, an inventor... considers his work...as far short of what it should be. Dem1 10.3 17 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./ Dem1 10.24 4 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share. Aris 10.34 20 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation...would be a price too large. Aris 10.43 9 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;... Aris 10.55 15 ...the thought has...large leisures and an inviting future. Aris 10.64 16 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly the habit of considering large interests... Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability. Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of trade... Chr2 10.101 18 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope. Edc1 10.148 6 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind...is not to be trusted to any skill less large than Nature itself. Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;... Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind... Prch 10.230 18 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties. MoL 10.255 7 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind... Plu 10.305 1 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. Plu 10.306 13 ...we know that metaphysical studies in any but minds of large horizon and incessant inspiration have their dangers. Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy. LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids... LLNE 10.339 12 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. LLNE 10.340 20 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity. LLNE 10.357 27 The large cities are phalansteries;... LLNE 10.362 7 Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]... EzRy 10.382 20 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776... EzRy 10.388 4 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you... MMEm 10.408 14 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation. MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism... SlHr 10.440 2 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability. SlHr 10.440 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other. SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons. SlHr 10.444 6 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection! Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession... Thor 10.459 6 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books... Thor 10.472 21 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed; none in a more large and religious synthesis. Thor 10.473 14 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented. Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond. Thor 10.484 22 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity... GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men... HDC 11.31 21 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate. HDC 11.32 12 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston. HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public... HDC 11.48 15 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; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;... HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations... HDC 11.72 21 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]... HDC 11.79 8 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large... HDC 11.81 6 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]... HDC 11.85 18 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been, in having received so large an infusion of the spirit of both of those periods [the Planting and the Revolution of the colony]. EWI 11.113 22 After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] passed by large majorities. War 11.154 24 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large. War 11.174 25 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day... FSLC 11.202 22 We delighted...in [Webster's] large understanding... FSLC 11.204 5 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm... FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;... FSLN 11.223 19 ...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect... AsSu 11.249 25 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone. JBB 11.270 9 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. EPro 11.318 1 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army... EPro 11.323 21 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-field would have been at least as large in that event as it is now. SHC 11.432 1 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...when they are disposed in masses and in large spaces. SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground... Scot 11.465 7 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete. FRO1 11.478 9 The church is not large enough for the man;... CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable... FRep 11.528 23 We have eight or ten religions in every large town... FRep 11.531 19 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same as he can carve for himself... FRep 11.543 6 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction. Nothing less large than justice can keep them in good temper. II 12.67 15 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Mem 12.101 9 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know. Mem 12.110 4 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large. CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens... CL 12.160 11 Our microscopes are not necessary. [Nature] shows every fact in large bodies somewhere. Bost 12.189 26 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields... Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West. Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;... MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine... Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./ ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part. ACri 12.294 25 Shakspeare is nothing but a large utterance. ACri 12.298 26 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours... AgMs 12.359 10 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family... Let 12.394 17 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association... large, adv. (1) FRO2 11.491 4 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large. large, n. (17) LE 1.172 11 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences. Chr1 3.96 4 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer. Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;... NR 3.241 13 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room; they spread themselves at large. NER 3.264 4 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large. PNR 4.82 24 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;... PNR 4.82 25 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;... SwM 4.106 18 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;... Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large;... Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/... Farm 7.141 14 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities. Chr2 10.109 9 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;... MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849... EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region... Koss 11.398 18 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party. Let 12.398 20 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only...widens the feeling of hostility between them and the citizens at large. largely, adv. (12) YA 1.378 5 Feudalism is not ended yet. Our governments still partake largely of that element. NR 3.231 27 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed... SwM 4.144 17 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot. NMW 4.227 6 [A man of Napoleon's stamp] is so largely receptive, and is so placed, that he comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country. ET5 5.89 2 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. F 6.35 11 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to lame him;... Ctr 6.158 23 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;... PI 8.39 24 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men. LLNE 10.335 11 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing... LS 11.10 1 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols. It was the national way of teaching, and was largely used by him. AKan 11.257 4 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father, largely interested as a raiser of stock, became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812... large-natured, adj. (1) ET8 5.128 11 [The English] are large-natured... largeness, n. (10) Tran 1.337 20 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness. Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art. UGM 4.20 7 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...by the largeness of their reception were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers. ET14 5.258 20 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. Bty 6.304 3 [Chosen men and women] have a largeness of suggestion... 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... PI 8.57 1 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy... PPo 8.237 15 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the largeness of the field... Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him? TPar 11.286 13 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;... larger, adj. (84) LE 1.164 27 [The growth of the intellect] is larger reception. MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example. Tran 1.357 21 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge, and deserve a larger power. Tran 1.359 5 ...when every voice is raised...for a new house or a larger business;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable? Fdsp 2.196 2 Our own thought sounds new and larger from [our friend's] mouth. OS 2.277 5 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all. OS 2.288 17 [Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart. Cir 2.304 3 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles... Art1 2.352 5 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols. Nat2 3.175 14 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance... PPh 4.42 18 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he traveled into Italy... SwM 4.98 24 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size. SwM 4.114 9 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones... MoS 4.176 22 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods. MoS 4.185 5 Man helps himself by larger generalizations. ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre... ShP 4.218 19 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement. NMW 4.230 8 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men. NMW 4.243 19 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased. ET1 5.5 7 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one...a larger horizon. ET3 5.37 15 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. ET4 5.65 12 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans. Yet, I am told, the skeleton is not larger. ET5 5.88 5 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;... ET8 5.136 25 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power. ET10 5.168 4 In true England all is false and forged. This too is the reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce. ET11 5.183 1 These large [private English] domains are growing larger. ET11 5.187 10 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon;... ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges. ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale... ET14 5.239 9 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class... ET14 5.250 23 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet... Wth 6.85 14 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence. Wth 6.117 14 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops? Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body... Ctr 6.145 22 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd. Bhr 6.189 15 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression. CbW 6.251 9 The good men are employed...for larger influence. CbW 6.256 22 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Florence Nightingale, or any lover, less or larger, compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;... Bty 6.282 26 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer. Bty 6.306 21 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind. Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind. Ill 6.320 16 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization? Art2 7.44 22 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified. Farm 7.149 5 The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it, and the larger the crop. Clbs 7.235 14 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science,--which are only less or larger theatres for this competition. Clbs 7.236 5 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers, showing that he saw at a larger angle of vision... Cour 7.258 20 Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin;... OA 7.319 9 ...especially, [the cup of time] creates a craving for larger draughts of itself. OA 7.319 10 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time] are drunk with it... PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. PI 8.68 7 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands. PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn around it. SA 8.102 9 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals. Elo2 8.116 24 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people]...with...his larger view... Res 8.149 26 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind. PC 8.228 18 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights. PC 8.229 8 Every generalization shows the way to a larger. PC 8.230 10 ...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope... Imtl 8.337 8 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us... Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him. SovE 10.183 5 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization... Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica. The territory of scholars is yet larger. LLNE 10.359 1 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships. Why not have a larger one... HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town... Wom 11.408 2 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true. Shak1 11.446 4 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/... Scot 11.465 1 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger. FRO1 11.478 17 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;... FRO2 11.488 21 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger cause than is necessary to the effect. FRep 11.512 22 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds. FRep 11.514 12 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;... PLT 12.19 7 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope... PLT 12.41 21 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand, which is to lead to a larger perception... PLT 12.53 13 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep... CInt 12.117 23 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe and his generosity larger than mine;... CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts... CL 12.166 12 ...of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half. Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes... MAng1 12.231 19 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built. ACri 12.295 16 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;... PPr 12.380 8 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into...a larger and juster totality than any other. Let 12.396 15 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits... largest, adj. (33) Nat 1.24 18 Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. Pt1 3.6 17 The poet is...the man...who...is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart. Exp 3.57 26 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things... Chr1 3.89 21 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance. The largest part of their power was latent. NER 3.279 2 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right. SwM 4.105 2 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;... SwM 4.105 6 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? SwM 4.135 4 The genius of Swedenborg, largest of all modern souls in this [Hebraic] department of thought, wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term... SwM 4.139 3 The largest is always the truest sentiment... MoS 4.185 1 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience. ET1 5.14 13 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse... ET3 5.38 21 Here [in England] is...a temperature which...allows the attainment of the largest stature. ET16 5.283 14 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns... Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were by no means men of the largest literary talent... Wth 6.110 17 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners. Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large;... Bty 6.290 9 It is a rule of largest application...that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty. Elo1 7.62 25 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety... Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator, in the largest style... WD 7.176 14 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size. PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the largest interpretation. PI 8.72 12 After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn around it. Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents. Chr2 10.115 24 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds... GSt 10.502 20 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57, [George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first. EWI 11.103 19 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest. SMC 11.351 14 ...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. CPL 11.502 2 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters? FRep 11.530 8 ...the largest thought and the widest love are born to victory... FRep 11.530 17 ...the great interests of mankind, being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day. FRep 11.541 3 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man. CL 12.135 18 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. MAng1 12.216 14 Beauty in the largest sense...this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius. lark, n. (1) CPL 11.499 24 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark... larks, n. (2) ET16 5.277 18 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;... ET16 5.277 19 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago. larning, n. (1) HDC 11.65 11 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;... Lars [lares], n. (2) ET1 5.15 18 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs... Dem1 10.2 4 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./ larvae, n. (1) PPr 12.382 6 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped... Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1) CPL 11.504 24 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable, as reported by Las Casas;... Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1) SR 2.87 5 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms... Las Cases [Casas], Emmanue (1) NMW 4.237 15 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind... lascivious, n. (1) SwM 4.131 24 [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;...he saw...the hell of the lascivious;... lash, n. (1) Comp 2.120 3 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;... lash, v. (5) LT 1.262 23 How [persons] lash us with those tongues! Pol1 3.209 21 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure... WD 7.172 23 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship... OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward... Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. lashed, v. (1) ET5 5.88 1 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt. lashes, v. (1) Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the wave which lashes incessantly the rock... lassitude, n. (1) NMW 4.249 9 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful. lasso, n. (1) ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by lasso...all the game that is in nature. last, adj. (390) Nat 1.17 21 Not less excellent...was the charm, last evening, of a January sunset. Nat 1.24 25 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature. Nat 1.29 15 ...as [idiomatic language] is the first language, so is it the last. Nat 1.33 21 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;... Nat 1.34 26 A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. Nat 1.40 14 ...the world becomes at last only a realized will... Nat 1.42 8 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields. Nat 1.58 7 The first and last lesson of religion is, The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. AmS 1.86 13 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization... AmS 1.87 10 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim. AmS 1.100 2 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare. AmS 1.105 20 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe... AmS 1.109 22 Sight is the last thing to be pitied. DSA 1.123 3 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life...is at last as sure as in the soul. LE 1.159 18 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand. LE 1.169 6 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where the living columns of the oak and fir tower up from the ruins of the trees of the last millenium;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art... LE 1.171 7 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last. LE 1.171 13 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain, and the gold and diamonds would remain in the last colander. MN 1.198 6 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely. Through them we express, at last, the fact that God has done thus or thus. MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured. MN 1.204 12 ...at last, what has [man] to recite but the fact that there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession? MN 1.205 2 The termination of the world in a man appears to be the last victory of intelligence. MN 1.210 5 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice...at last is but a humming in his ears. MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion... LT 1.264 8 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age. LT 1.268 9 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation... LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age... LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;... LT 1.282 7 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity (which we all at last believe in) is fair and beneficent. LT 1.288 25 ...we...do not know that the law and the perception of the law are at last one;... Con 1.297 20 Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement. Con 1.315 7 When he came at last to Rome, [Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich... Con 1.315 20 ...we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening. Con 1.315 23 ...last evening our family was collected... Con 1.323 19 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power. Tran 1.331 24 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity... Tran 1.343 9 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;... Tran 1.345 14 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours? Tran 1.346 16 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe. Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue... YA 1.368 15 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work. In the last case the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice his equal... YA 1.376 22 ...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of their own;... Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion? Hist 2.17 27 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;... Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran? SR 2.50 11 Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. SR 2.51 12 If an angry bigot...comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;... SR 2.52 1 I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last... SR 2.64 9 In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. SR 2.68 16 And now at last the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;... SR 2.73 26 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last. SR 2.81 27 I...at last wake up in Naples... SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;... Comp 2.94 22 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne? Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal and was crushed to death beneath its fall. Comp 2.113 13 You must pay at last your own debt. SL 2.137 26 The simplicity of nature...is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made. SL 2.148 27 [A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances. Lov1 2.170 25 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits. Lov1 2.186 2 [The soul] arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys... Lov1 2.187 14 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous... Fdsp 2.193 6 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us. Fdsp 2.202 16 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought... Fdsp 2.212 23 In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Prd1 2.229 8 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth. Prd1 2.230 19 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform. Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless... Prd1 2.241 2 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...at last... Hsm1 2.246 22 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./ Hsm1 2.246 27 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./ Hsm1 2.247 22 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune. Hsm1 2.251 24 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last... Hsm1. 2.252 1 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. Hsm1 2.255 10 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade. OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Cir 2.306 12 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and... if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. Cir 2.306 13 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;... Cir 2.306 14 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened;... Cir 2.307 5 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations. Cir 2.310 24 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men. Cir 2.315 21 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. Int 2.331 4 At last comes the era of reflection... Int 2.338 17 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Int 2.340 6 ...at last we discover that our curve is a parabola... Int 2.343 14 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new. Int 2.345 10 Anyhow, when at last it is done, you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you. Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world... Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret. Art1 2.358 7 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art... Art1 2.359 2 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes. Art1 2.361 5 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious... Pt1 3.23 26 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. Pt1 3.34 13 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. Pt1 3.35 14 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. Pt1 3.39 26 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken. Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own;... Exp 3.48 3 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction... Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets... Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God. Exp 3.69 16 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal. Exp 3.78 27 No man at last believes that he can be lost... Exp 3.85 15 Patience and patience, we shall win at the last. Chr1 3.96 10 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last. Chr1 3.108 6 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person. Chr1 3.114 27 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven. Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause. Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first. Mrs1 3.145 17 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's. Nat2 3.180 26 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;... Nat2 3.187 5 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last. Pol1 3.203 19 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors... NER 3.251 3 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting. NER 3.255 2 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations. NER 3.257 14 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind... NER 3.259 9 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time. NER 3.278 17 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. NER 3.282 10 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house! but at last it appears that he is the true man, and I am the traitor. NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality... NER 3.283 15 ...[men] believe...that right is done at last;... UGM 4.13 23 If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as it found me... UGM 4.20 25 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born. UGM 4.27 10 Every hero becomes a bore at last. UGM 4.31 23 All men are at last of a size;... UGM 4.32 3 Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation. UGM 4.34 17 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness... PPh 4.47 17 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;... PPh 4.51 25 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality... SwM 4.108 13 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. SwM 4.109 4 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last. SwM 4.111 6 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... SwM 4.115 18 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial: last, the perpetual-celestial, or spiritual. SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences... SwM 4.122 3 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church... SwM 4.123 8 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. SwM 4.131 15 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit, each more abominable than the last, round every new crew of offenders. SwM 4.133 20 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...is it the last profanation. SwM 4.139 20 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment (or the last of the judgments) took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws. SwM 4.145 15 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. MoS 4.154 8 Our meat will taste to-morrow as it did yesterday, and we may at last have had enough of it. MoS 4.155 15 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge, you are spinning like bubbles in a river... MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. MoS 4.181 7 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;... MoS 4.181 14 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position... MoS 4.186 10 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause... ShP 4.189 14 A poet is no rattle-brain, saying what comes uppermost, because he says every thing, saying at last something good;... ShP 4.194 18 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue. ShP 4.199 13 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?... ShP 4.214 8 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last;... NMW 4.251 3 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said to the last [Antonomarchi], we had better leave off all these remedies... NMW 4.256 1 [Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of men, and of striking and horse-play with them, to his last days. NMW 4.256 6 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;... GoW 4.264 5 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect will and is articulated. GoW 4.265 11 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;... GoW 4.266 10 Ideas...at last make a fool of the possessor. GoW 4.275 14 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the flower and the seed [wrote Goethe]. GoW 4.279 5 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name;... GoW 4.287 4 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler, Roger Bacon... GoW 4.290 1 It is the last lesson of modern science that the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity. GoW 4.290 22 The secret of genius is...first, last, midst and without end, to honor every truth by use. ET1 5.16 3 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence. ET2 5.26 19 At last, on Sunday night...the storm came... ET2 5.27 11 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment... ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea]... ET3 5.35 14 ...if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium, that country is England. ET3 5.35 25 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent... ET4 5.52 26 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London... ET4 5.64 14 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails. ET4 5.66 27 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity... ET5 5.74 23 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed. ET5 5.75 5 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England]... ET5 5.91 12 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits... ET5 5.94 9 ...from first to last [England] is a museum of anomalies. ET5 5.97 9 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall... ET5 5.99 1 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months. ET6 5.103 20 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;... ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo... ET8 5.131 21 [The English] are good...at dying in the last ditch... ET8 5.138 11 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted... ET8 5.140 18 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with fire, which at last sets all its borders in flame. ET8 5.141 15 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Schleswig Holstein, though overborne by the statecraft of the rulers at last. ET9 5.149 23 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone... ET10 5.153 22 The last term of insult [in England] is, a beggar. ET10 5.158 13 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years. ET10 5.160 9 [Steam] makes the motor of the last ninety years. ET10 5.160 20 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. ET10 5.162 24 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history. ET11 5.173 8 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...at last, with the Hebrew religion and the oldest traditions of the world, was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities... ET11 5.180 26 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents. The English tenant would defend his lord to the last extremity. ET11 5.181 5 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they... wring from them the last sous. ET11 5.193 1 Dismal anecdotes abound, verifying the gossip of the last generation, of [English] dukes served by bailiffs... ET11 5.196 17 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty. ET12 5.199 14 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March, 1848. ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds. ET13 5.228 26 The English...cling to the last rag of form, and are dreadfully given to cant. ET15 5.265 18 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris... ET15 5.270 23 ...at last, when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch... ET16 5.277 20 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago. ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;... ET16 5.280 8 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone. ET16 5.280 26 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line. ET17 5.291 5 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except in the last chapter... F 6.4 13 ...by harping...on each string, we learn at last its power. F 6.5 20 Our Calvinists in the last generation had something of the same dignity. F 6.12 5 At last these hints and tendencies are fixed in one or in a succession. F 6.14 16 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle]. F 6.20 14 ...[Maya] became at last woman and goddess, and [Vishnu] a man and a god. F 6.21 6 ...last of all, high over thought...Fate appears as vindicator... F 6.21 18 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members. F 6.36 12 The whole circle of animal life...until at last the whole menagerie...is mellowed...for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective. F 6.42 7 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position, as the proof of the last or total excellence, than on his merits. Pow 6.54 8 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. Pow 6.60 25 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws. Pow 6.63 11 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter... Pow 6.65 11 Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the most forcible, I lean to the last. Pow 6.69 23 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces... Pow 6.72 23 ...[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. Pow 6.73 2 [Michel Angelo] was not crushed by his one picture left unfinished at last. Pow 6.78 18 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety... Pow 6.78 24 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often. Pow 6.81 4 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach... Wth 6.85 19 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art. Wth 6.103 5 A dollar is not value, but representative of value, and, at last, of moral values. Wth 6.114 12 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last;... Wth 6.115 9 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a third;... Wth 6.123 13 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel. From step to step he comes at last to surrender at discretion. Ctr 6.154 20 All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. Ctr 6.157 16 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;... Ctr 6.157 26 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. Ctr 6.164 7 The high virtues...have their redress in being illustrious at last. Ctr 6.166 17 ...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna. Bhr 6.169 4 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech. Bhr 6.169 22 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned. Bhr 6.192 6 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last the point is gained... Bhr 6.194 8 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;... Wsp 6.204 20 In the last chapters we treated some particulars of the question of culture. Wsp 6.226 2 In every variety of human employment...there are...those... who finish their task for its own sake; and the state and the world is happy that has the most of such finishers. The world will always do justice at last to such finishers; it cannot otherwise. Wsp 6.229 18 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face... Wsp 6.234 1 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust. Wsp 6.240 14 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom. Wsp 6.241 4 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Our times are impatient of both, and specially of the last. CbW 6.252 5 No sane man at last distrusts himself. CbW 6.267 1 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for? until at last the party are shamefaced... CbW 6.277 26 ...all rests at last on that integrity which dwarfs talent... Bty 6.293 3 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode... Bty 6.297 4 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings... Ill 6.312 23 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy. Ill 6.320 13 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities... Ill 6.322 24 ...we must...deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. SS 7.3 12 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? SS 7.3 14 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? SS 7.8 16 Like President Tyler...we must ride in a sulky at last. SS 7.9 8 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity... Art2 7.39 3 ...from its first to its last works, Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end. Art2 7.41 12 The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works. Elo1 7.78 22 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who...can never play his last card... Elo1 7.87 19 The judge was forced at last to rule something... Elo1 7.87 26 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession, and stood on that to the last. Elo1 7.93 25 ...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact. DL 7.114 21 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed, and often is sacrificed without acquiring wealth at last. DL 7.120 9 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last oration... Farm 7.137 3 All trade rests at last on [the farmer's] primitive activity. Farm 7.144 5 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now--when in our immense day the hour is at last struck--take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man. Farm 7.152 13 The last lands are the best lands. Farm 7.152 23 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect. WD 7.158 23 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them. WD 7.169 27 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives... WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos. Clbs 7.226 1 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of daily necessity, to the last results of science... Clbs 7.238 1 At last [Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer... Clbs 7.241 9 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them at last fatalists...whom we now consider. Cour 7.265 21 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering... Cour 7.277 12 ...if your skepticism reaches to the last verge...then be brave... Suc 7.299 9 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that every spring was more beautiful to him than the last. Suc 7.300 5 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes. Suc 7.300 12 [Color] is the last stroke of Nature;... Suc 7.301 22 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street. OA 7.330 8 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer...omniscient at last. PI 8.5 3 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. PI 8.56 1 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in... Collins's Ode to Evening, all but the last verse... PI 8.57 1 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own;... SA 8.101 11 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial... SA 8.102 21 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;... Elo2 8.109 5 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./ Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends... Res 8.139 26 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet. Res 8.148 1 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob...by a wit which disconcerted and at last delighted the ring-leaders. Res 8.149 27 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind. Comc 8.166 28 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison... Comc 8.172 18 At last said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. QO 8.181 25 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology... QO 8.182 9 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...until it is at last the work of the whole communion of worshippers. QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;... QO 8.198 13 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame... PC 8.223 22 ...the universe at last is only prophetic... PC 8.228 10 The foundation of culture...is at last the moral sentiment. PPo 8.252 5 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. PPo 8.252 21 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces. PPo 8.253 24 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./ PPo 8.261 22 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./ Grts 8.302 20 ...the scholars represent...the intellect and the moral sentiment,-which in the last analysis can never be separated. Imtl 8.332 12 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held, and thus parted for the last time. Imtl 8.333 2 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box. Imtl 8.348 27 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God... Aris 10.34 11 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken... Aris 10.44 23 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. PerF 10.76 27 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory! PerF 10.83 13 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it severs the man from all other men;... Chr2 10.106 7 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country! Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order. Chr2 10.108 8 ...the new age cannot see with the eyes of the last. Chr2 10.122 6 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it. Edc1 10.151 11 Is it not manifest...that [our academic institutions] should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation... SovE 10.202 15 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century. SovE 10.203 26 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age. SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world... MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve, insoluble by the last age. Schr 10.286 13 [The scholar] is to know that in the last resort he is not here to work, but to be worked upon. LLNE 10.327 25 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone. The very last ghost is laid. LLNE 10.327 26 Demonology is on its last legs. LLNE 10.335 1 ...these last [works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them... LLNE 10.335 9 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on the work a last fragrancy and glitter. LLNE 10.344 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength. LLNE 10.367 21 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work]. EzRy 10.383 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which, however in its last days declining into formalism, in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America. EzRy 10.388 10 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter. MMEm 10.417 14 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place... MMEm 10.419 11 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance... MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine;... MMEm 10.429 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. SlHr 10.438 18 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. Thor 10.451 2 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey. Thor 10.473 23 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that... Thor 10.474 6 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown... GSt 10.501 10 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns. GSt 10.501 16 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests. HDC 11.47 17 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath. HDC 11.66 23 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself, in a church-meeting, in December last, he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people. HDC 11.67 18 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two. It was also his last. HDC 11.82 15 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;... HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars. LVB 11.95 10 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world. EWI 11.101 2 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them. EWI 11.117 8 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year. EWI 11.123 2 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette. EWI 11.129 10 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons. War 11.161 17 ...war is on its last legs;... FSLC 11.179 5 The last year has forced us all into politics... FSLC 11.181 2 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal. FSLC 11.192 15 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be, and we will exert ourselves to the last drop of our blood. AsSu 11.247 3 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries. AKan 11.257 15 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state. I know that the last legislature refused that aid. AKan 11.258 25 First, the private citizen, then the primary assembly, and the government last. AKan 11.258 26 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal. AKan 11.259 6 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years... ACiv 11.299 25 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;... ACiv 11.303 12 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged. They can be read by... eyes in the last peril. ACiv 11.304 20 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last twelvemonth. EPro 11.316 2 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Homestead Bill in the last Congress... EPro 11.324 19 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years... HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country... SMC 11.357 16 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said, he had been thinking a good deal about it, last night, and he thought one was never too young to die for a principle. SMC 11.359 1 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you would have picked out for the rough dealing of war... SMC 11.360 12 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;... SMC 11.371 25 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. EdAd 11.387 23 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art, which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure. Wom 11.408 23 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization... ChiE 11.474 17 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York, in his last visit to America, that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce. FRep 11.540 4 Let us realize that this country, the last found, is the great charity of God to the human race. PLT 12.23 15 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something. PLT 12.48 8 ...in the last results, the man with the talent is the need of mankind;... Mem 12.98 21 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you... Mem 12.98 22 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. CInt 12.121 2 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability. CL 12.141 15 [The air] is the last finish of the work of the Creator. CL 12.152 9 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived... Bost 12.192 12 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays... Bost 12.201 1 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's adventure. Bost 12.210 3 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it. Bost 12.211 7 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./ MAng1 12.220 25 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling;... MAng1 12.239 16 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot. MLit 12.312 5 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance. MLit 12.321 9 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself. MLit 12.330 8 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect... Pray 12.354 20 The last of the four orisons is written in a singularly calm and healthful spirit... AgMs 12.360 11 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last... EurB 12.377 23 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm... PPr 12.379 13 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years... Trag 12.408 3 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism... last, adv. (19) Comp 2.113 10 ...first or last you must pay your entire debt. GoW 4.263 1 [The writer] believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last;... ET6 5.102 9 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies; and what I heard first I heard last... ET15 5.264 25 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal. ET16 5.288 8 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last. Ctr 6.145 12 All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe;... Ctr 6.148 13 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion... Ill 6.316 8 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. WD 7.181 14 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them last. Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts. Res 8.138 6 A philosophy...which says...life is eating us up, 't is only question who shall be last devoured,--dispirits us;... PerF 10.76 12 ...first or last [man] exhausts by his use all the harvests... Chr2 10.117 2 ...[Calvinism] is doomed also, and will only die last;... GSt 10.504 3 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed, first or last, all gainsayers. FSLC 11.194 9 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. FSLN 11.231 7 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair; the Whig wisdom was only...a waiting to be last devoured. FRO1 11.477 10 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many, to those last spoken, I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say. PLT 12.29 27 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form. Mem 12.105 6 The memory of all men is robust on the subject...of an insult inflicted on them. They can remember, as Johnson said, who kicked them last. Last Judgment [Michelangelo (3) exp 3.62 26 ...the Transfiguration, the Last Judgment...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;... MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment. MAng1 12.234 10 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves. Last Judgment, n. (3) SR 2.45 13 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Comp 2.94 6 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment. SwM 4.139 19 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws. Last Minstrel, Lay of the [ (1) Scot 11.463 19 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my own and my school-fellows' joy in the book. Marmion and The Lay had gone before. last, n. (97) AmS 1.97 21 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees. SR 2.60 9 I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. CbW 6.264 15 ...goodness smiles to the last;... PPo 8.263 5 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/... PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Insp 8.285 22 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Insp 8.294 4 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is not at last a few individuals, or any scared heroes... Grts 8.317 16 ...[morals and intellect]...always beckon to each other, until at last they meet in the man, if he is to be truly great. Imtl 8.331 24 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted... Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met... Imtl 8.332 8 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Imtl 8.348 23 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. Aris 10.33 27 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them... PerF 10.70 24 The ripe fruit is dropped at last without violence... PerF 10.88 12 ...the massive might of ideas is irresistible at last. Chr2 10.91 18 ...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number... Chr2 10.112 13 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church. Chr2 10.112 19 The walls of the temple are wasted and thin, and, at last, only a film of whitewash... Edc1 10.126 1 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost...at last, the ripest results of art and science. Edc1 10.131 20 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import... Edc1 10.145 18 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report...it will lead him at last into the illustrious society of the lovers of truth. Edc1 10.146 11 ...[Fellowes]...at last in his third visit [to Xanthus] brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument... Edc1 10.147 26 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly... Edc1 10.150 5 ...every young man...is a potential genius; is at last to be one;... Supl 10.174 15 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature... SovE 10.184 25 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part and is rewarded at last... SovE 10.187 14 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when, as the historians rightly tell, the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal. SovE 10.188 26 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea...which in long periods vindicates itself at last. SovE 10.189 8 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful. SovE 10.190 10 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property...is best for all. SovE 10.191 13 Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every crime. Prch 10.226 6 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us. Prch 10.232 22 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves... MoL 10.255 6 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind... Schr 10.265 23 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last... Schr 10.272 11 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature. Plu 10.310 26 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State, which continue even in ants and bees to the very last. LLNE 10.344 17 [Theodore Parker] stood altogether for practical truth; and so to the last. EzRy 10.385 14 And at last we have this record [from Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr. White. EzRy 10.389 6 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last. MMEm 10.417 27 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed... MMEm 10.429 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] enter my dear sixty the last of this month. MMEm 10.432 11 ...when at last her release arrived, the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour. SlHr 10.443 22 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form... SlHr 10.448 24 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last. GSt 10.504 10 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries. HDC 11.60 25 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter... HDC 11.76 14 We hold by the hand the last of the invincible men of old... EWI 11.106 20 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded... EWI 11.111 16 ...when, at last, some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters... EWI 11.128 11 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed... EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;... War 11.162 26 ...what is true...must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition. FSLC 11.188 14 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]. FSLC 11.203 13 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction... FSLN 11.238 22 ...Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong. FSLN 11.244 8 Now at last we are disenchanted and shall have no more false hopes. FSLN 11.244 21 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it. I doubt not, at last, the slave states will join it. ACiv 11.310 2 ...it is the maxim of history that victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;... EPro 11.316 24 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward... ALin 11.334 12 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class president, at last. ALin 11.337 14 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...securing at last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven. HCom 11.340 3 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./ SMC 11.356 21 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who...found sphere at last for their superabundant energy;... SMC 11.367 10 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation... SMC 11.372 18 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space... EdAd 11.384 27 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys. Koss 11.397 21 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily glad to see you, at last, in these fields [of Concord]. Shak1 11.447 13 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;... Shak1 11.453 4 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. FRep 11.515 19 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last records the victory. FRep 11.524 19 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements... FRep 11.525 20 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more. FRep 11.530 18 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day. FRep 11.543 13 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice. PLT 12.4 11 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us... PLT 12.17 3 ...I believe...that at last Matter is dead Mind;... PLT 12.19 18 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. PLT 12.31 22 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this... PLT 12.38 12 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back. The observers may come at their leisure, and do at last satisfy themselves of the fact. PLT 12.38 17 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. PLT 12.47 18 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;... PLT 12.63 23 ...at last [the Intellect] will be justified, though for the moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres. PLT 12.64 2 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. II 12.68 22 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action. II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. II 12.84 27 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus. II 12.87 4 The virtue of the Intellect is its own...and at last, it will be justified... CInt 12.125 26 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary, and who only prospered at last because he forsook theirs and took his own. CL 12.159 2 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year, and obtain at last an intimacy with the country...these we call professors. MAng1 12.231 17 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. Milt1 12.253 7 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first...at last, ends;... MLit 12.312 10 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world... MLit 12.329 3 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader would come at last... WSL 12.348 21 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last...on the value of his sentences. Pray 12.354 5 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty, yet they all accord at last. EurB 12.369 22 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation. Last Supper, n. (5) LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists... LS 11.9 3 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. LS 11.9 4 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. LS 11.14 11 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came, and so relates the transactions of the Last Supper. LS 11.15 22 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;... last, v. (22) Nat 1.71 8 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years. MR 1.235 27 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? It is easy to see that the inconvenience would last but a short time. Con 1.320 11 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...to bring the week and year about, and make the world last our day;... SL 2.154 10 Only those books come down which deserve to last. Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer... UGM 4.14 23 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions, whose names may not last as long. NMW 4.254 15 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days. ET4 5.69 5 [The English] have a vigorous health and last well into middle and old age. ET5 5.75 19 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war. ET11 5.178 5 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;... F 6.21 11 What is useful will last... Suc 7.294 13 The good workman never says, There, that will do; but, There, that is it: try it, and come again, it will last always. PI 8.14 2 ...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years. Supl 10.168 4 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Plu 10.322 25 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last. War 11.165 3 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing. FSLN 11.237 1 What is useful will last... ACiv 11.296 8 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/ ACiv 11.307 6 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;... Koss 11.398 27 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;...it will last... CPL 11.508 19 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries. WSL 12.337 16 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;... lasted, v. (4) Boks 7.209 19 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days... PPo 8.242 3 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons, whose reign lasted seven hundred years;... HDC 11.79 23 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted;... ACiv 11.297 12 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted... lasting, adj. (26) MN 1.219 10 Has anything grand and lasting been done? Cir 2.303 10 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact;... Pt1 3.17 24 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is, and the more lasting in the memories of men;... Exp 3.56 10 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion...is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing. Pol1 3.208 17 [Parties]...rudely mark some real and lasting relation. GoW 4.261 18 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. ET5 5.99 20 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is more lasting than the cloth. ET18 5.304 15 [The English] do not occupy themselves on matters of general and lasting import... Wsp 6.214 26 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence... Wsp 6.225 5 ...the real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war. Elo1 7.69 25 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination, though it may have no lasting effect. Elo1 7.73 23 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle, and of no lasting power. Clbs 7.236 17 ...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm. Suc 7.306 23 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty]. PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time... PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, lasting as space and time... Insp 8.271 11 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except by inspiration... Insp 8.295 5 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book...from which I draw some lasting knowledge. Edc1 10.157 13 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power]. MMEm 10.423 27 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions? GSt 10.502 14 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him...by lasting ties. EPro 11.325 14 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace. HCom 11.343 9 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert...present defeat into lasting victory. CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library... lastly, adv. (6) Prd1 2.223 5 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon... SwM 4.105 1 ...lastly, the nobility of method...had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;... Pow 6.73 4 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton, then to clothe them with flesh, and lastly to drape them. Boks 7.201 6 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...lastly, containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn. Carl 10.491 2 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company. War 11.166 21 ...bayonet and sword...lastly, will be transferred to the museums of the curious... lasts, v. (12) DSA 1.145 14 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts... MN 1.196 19 ...a man lasts but a very little while... YA 1.376 27 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well. Pt1 3.33 5 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence. Exp 3.77 25 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire. Pow 6.64 11 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water. Clbs 7.246 20 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! PI 8.61 28 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is...made by enchantment so strong that it can never be demolished while the world lasts;... Imtl 8.335 4 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long... Imtl 8.335 11 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour. Imtl 8.335 12 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour. Bost 12.187 1 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the men that drink it get up earlier, and some of the morning light lasts through the day. Content (Text): Copyright © 2005 by Charlotte York Irey Coding (HTML): Copyright © 2005 by Bradley P. Dean All Rights Reserved Back to Emerson Concordance home Special Collections home Library home