Laxer to Leasts
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
laxer, adj. (1)
Wth 6.104 10 If you take out of State Street the ten
honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same
amount of capital...the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life.
Lay of the Humble [R. M. (1)
Ctr 6.151 23 An old poet says,--Go far and go
sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain/ the poorer and the baser you
appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise,
Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble...
Lay of the Last Minstrel [ (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...
lay, v. (84)
Con 1.320 23 ...if [the people] are not instructed to
sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing
class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of
wealth itself...
Tran 1.356 2 ...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will
lay themselves open to criticism and to lampoons...
Hist 2.17 26 In the man, could we lay him open, we
should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...
Hist 2.25 6 After the army had crossed the river
Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay miserably
on the ground covered with it.
Comp 2.93 8 The documents...from which the doctrine
[of Compensation] is to be drawn...lay always before me, even in
sleep;...
SL 2.134 15 [Men of extraordinary success's] success
lay in their parallelism to the course of thought...
Int 2.332 21 Each truth that a writer acquires is a
lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in
his mind...
Mrs1 3.154 22 ...[Osman's] great heart lay there so
sunny and hospitable in the centre of the country, that it seemed as if
the instinct of all sufferers drew them to his side.
Nat2 3.193 4 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and
loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are, or lay his
hand or plant his foot thereon?
SwM 4.113 2 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature]
proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations,
there was no state through which she did not pass, as if her path lay
through all things.
SwM 4.127 9 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to
be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the
love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and
effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis
of all institutions, customs and manners.
MoS 4.162 17 A single odd volume of Cotton's
translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my
father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected...
MoS 4.184 17 Each man woke in the morning with...a
spirit for action and passion without bounds; he could lay his hand on
the morning star;...
NMW 4.241 19 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the
people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and
aims...
ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book,
which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three
pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
ET2 5.33 15 There lay the green shore of Ireland,
like some coast of plenty.
ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions
[of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the
entire Danish fleet, as it lay in the basins...
ET5 5.87 7 ...[the English] fundamentally believe
that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close
alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
ET5 5.87 21 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the
Englishman's] day's wages... he will fight to the Judgment.
ET14 5.254 22 ...[the English] fear the hostility of
ideas, of poetry, or religion,--ghosts which they cannot lay;...
F 6.1 10 ...on [the poet's] mind, at dawn of day,/
Soft shadows of the evening lay./
F 6.36 26 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful
King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the
first stone, he would build such another.
Wth 6.99 10 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure
the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and
preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
Bhr 6.176 6 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts
statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and
method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting
under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning
and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away
attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Elo1 7.97 4 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on
character and insight.
Clbs 7.226 13 Some talkers excel in the precision
with which they formulate their thoughts...others lay criticism asleep
by a charm.
Cour 7.254 8 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in
his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...
Cour 7.260 5 One heard much cant of peace-parties
long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the
greatness of their wrongs...
Suc 7.302 27 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting
that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters
of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled
than any one man of the past or present time.
OA 7.327 3 Michel Angelo's head is full...of
architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in
courses of travertine.
PI 8.47 17 Another form of rhyme is iterations of
phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he
bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
PPo 8.252 15 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not
quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English
poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay.
Dem1 10.15 23 I have a lucky hand, sir, said
Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything.
Aris 10.44 21 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.
Chr2 10.96 13 ...there is...many a man who does not
hesitate to lay down his life for the sake of a truth...
Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should
lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am
persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
Chr2 10.113 20 ...whoever feels any love or skill for
ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in
working in that mine.
Chr2 10.115 13 Every exaggeration of [person and
text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...
Supl 10.169 11 It seems as if inflation were a
disease incident to too much use of words, and the remedy lay in
recourse to things.
LLNE 10.353 7 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's]
design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
LLNE 10.363 13 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in
Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
EzRy 10.384 20 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one
side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How
wonderful the preservation.
MMEm 10.430 14 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest
place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human
sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is
so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
SlHr 10.440 22 The strength and the beauty of the man
[Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind...
SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the
clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of
his case.
Thor 10.460 4 In every part of Great Britain,
[Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the
Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on
any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations of our houses on
the ashes of a former civilization.
HDC 11.65 20 It is an article in the selectmen's
warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in
for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
FSLC 11.202 23 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight
statement, simple force; the facts lay like the strata of a cloud...
AsSu 11.250 6 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are
the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.
AKan 11.262 7 Pans of gold lay drying outside of
every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
SHC 11.431 5 A simultaneous movement has, in a
hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient
piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay
the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
II 12.77 8 The only comfort I can lay to my own
sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the
ruin of the personal, is secured.
CL 12.155 19 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst
I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years...lay down as if to die in
those ends of the world, these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one
seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
Milt1 12.267 19 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of
Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou
travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart/
The lowliest duties on itself did lay./
ACri 12.293 3 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a
general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall
and will.
Trag 12.413 1 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic
air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone
wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?
Trag 12.414 19 As the west wind...combs out the
matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so
we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which
are dark and wet and low bent.
Layard, Austen Henry, n. (7)
ET5 5.91 26 In the same [English] spirit, were the
excavation and research...of Layard for his Nineveh sculptures.
ET16 5.278 26 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will
arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...utilizing Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...
Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows
the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated,
and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Layard...
CbW 6.266 12 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After
the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to
another, until thou art happy and content in none.
WD 7.174 24 What journeys and measurements,--Niebuhr
and Muller and Layard,--to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
PPo 8.239 14 Layard has given some details of the
effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
layer, n. (5)
ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the
antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer
of dust...
F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
F 6.34 10 The opinion of the million was the terror
of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of
society,-a layer of soldiers...
F 6.34 11 The opinion of the million was the terror
of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of
society,-a layer of soldiers, over that a layer of lords...
Insp 8.295 24 Only our newest knowledge works as a
source of inspiration and thought, as only the outmost layer of liber
on the tree.
layers, n. (1)
FSLC 11.202 24 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight
statement, simple force; the facts lay...like the layers of the crust
of the globe.
lay-figure, n. (1)
NR 3.227 6 [A person who makes a good public
appearance] is a graceful cloak or lay-figure for holidays.
laying, n. (1)
HDC 11.46 19 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's]
towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
laying, v. (13)
MN 1.202 8 When we...shorten the sight to look into
this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a
gambling table where each is laying traps for the other...one can
hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the
innocent space with so poor an article.
MR 1.247 24 ...we must not cease to tend to the
correction of flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.
Hsm1. 2.252 22 ...the little man...is born red, and
dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
Art1 2.355 19 Presently we pass to some other object,
which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a
well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying out of
gardens.
ET1 5.21 5 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his
conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him (laying
his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat).
Wth 6.123 18 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will
rebound to you.
Ctr 6.135 11 Though [men] talk of the object before
them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
CbW 6.263 2 If now in this connection of discourse we
should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will
not here repeat the first rule of economy...
SA 8.101 21 In America, the necessity of...laying out
town and street... exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
Schr 10.263 24 [Intellect] is the power that makes
the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and
earth...
Milt1 12.264 9 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that
every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to
be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur, the laying of a
sword upon his shoulder, to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to
secure and protect attempted innocence.
Milt1 12.266 11 Few men could be cited who have so
well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton],
and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic
affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and...laying its
chief stress on humility.
laymen, n. (2)
Elo1 7.88 12 The statement of the fact...sinks before
the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers
nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense, alike
interesting to laymen as to clerks.
Chr2 10.107 9 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact
observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of
clergymen.
lays, n. (1)
Nat 1.52 25 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes
of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
lays, v. (21)
Nat 1.68 14 ...[man] is lord [of the world]...because
he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric
influence which observation or analysis lays open.
Tran 1.331 23 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how
deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of
his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown
materials and solidity...
Nat2 3.193 24 Are we tickled trout, and fools of
nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at
rest...
NER 3.280 23 ...all frank and searching conversation,
in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their
radical unity.
UGM 4.24 1 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe,
but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays
her poppies plentifully on the bruise...
SwM 4.102 14 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor
magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...
F 6.15 15 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...
OA 7.329 5 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four
classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to
justify certain of his classes.
PPo 8.250 3 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.
Dem1 10.6 19 You may catch the glance of a dog
sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
LLNE 10.356 8 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and
rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
FSLC 11.206 20 ...he who writes a crime into the
statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a
powder-magazine, and lays a train.
FSLN 11.232 6 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole
ground; to hold fast and to advance. Only, one lays the emphasis on
keeping, and the other on advancing.
II 12.81 7 ...the real credentials by which
man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate
rank, are intellectual and moral.
lazar-houses, n. (1)
Suc 7.308 17 I do not find executions or tortures or
lazar-houses...fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
laziest, adj. (1)
Boks 7.205 16 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the
conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the
reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest
scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.
lazily, adv. (1)
DL 7.127 13 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a
pivot as deep as the axle of the world,--so slow, and lazily, and
great, they move.
laziness, n. (2)
Civ 7.27 19 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness
and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he
bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
DL 7.122 13 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a
university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men
of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser
propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar
conversation.
lazuli, lapis, 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./
lazy, adj. (2)
Imtl 8.341 24 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm
to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a
perception that comes...never to the lazy or rusty mind.
lazy, n. (1)
lazzaroni, n. (1)
CbW 6.249 17 I do not wish any mass at all...no
shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or
lazzaroni at all.
Le Bailleul, President, n. (1)
Bty 6.299 23 Abbe Menage said of the President Le
Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
Le Boo, Prince, n. (1)
CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not
had...Prince Le Boo...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts
and passages which you will hear of with envy.
Le Havre, France, n. (1)
EdAd 11.383 21 A scholar who has been reading of the
fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a
railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still
wet from Liverpool and Havre...
Le Sage, Alain Rene, n. (2)
ET8 5.127 12 This trait of gloom has been fixed on
[the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le
Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have
spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask
than for themselves; as...Le Sage in Spanish costume...
lead, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.186 1 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a
painted chip, to a lead dragoon or a gingerbread-dog...lies down at
night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty
madness has incurred.
lead, n. (12)
Mrs1 3.121 22 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's
description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit
of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in
the world at this hour...
Mrs1 3.126 12 ...the politics of this country, and
the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and
irresponsible doers, who have invention to take the lead...
UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire...lead...severally
make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
ET11 5.185 2 For the rest, the [English] nobility
have the lead in matters of state and expense;...
ET15 5.270 13 ...[the editors of the London Times]
give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
Wth 6.83 21 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/
.../ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
Wth 6.89 21 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead,
quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...
Elo1 7.76 5 ...this precious person makes a speech
which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead
in the public mind over all these executive men...
DL 7.115 25 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are
best...set in lead, set in poverty.
Cour 7.259 8 Those political parties which gather in
the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive,
as if the lead were intrusted to the journals...
Shak1 11.447 4 We seriously endeavored, besides our
brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and
social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer
lovers of the muse...
lead, v. (84)
Nat 1.49 10 It is the uniform effect of culture on
the human mind...to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon...
Nat 1.62 11 [Nature] is the organ through which the
universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the
individual to it.
DSA 1.151 2 What hinders that now...wherever the
invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, you speak the very
truth...
MN 1.206 6 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown
into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from
disorder into order.
MR 1.227 6 ...our life, as we lead it, is common and
mean;...
LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in
everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
LT 1.286 22 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that
their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love. But whose
fault is this? and what a fault, and to what inquiry does it lead!
Tran 1.353 22 ...the two lives, of the understanding
and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to
each other;...
Tran 1.356 10 [Transcendentalists] complain that
everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all
their strength to deny, before they can begin to lead their own life.
Tran 1.357 25 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the
Genius...then most when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of
thought and life;...
YA 1.387 25 In every age of the world there has been
a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for
the interests of general justice and humanity... Which should be that
nation but these States? Which should lead that movement, if not New
England?
YA 1.387 27 Who should lead the leaders, but the
Young American?
Prd1 2.231 5 ...the boldest lyric
inspiration...should announce and lead the civil code and the day's
work.
Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes
have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to
assist and lead the dormant taste.
Pt1 3.13 3 I...have lost my faith in the possibility
of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be.
Pt1 3.28 13 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont
to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole
liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on
studies which lead to nothing?
NER 3.268 10 A man of good sense but of little faith,
whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went
there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and
churches, and other public amusements go on.
NER 3.285 1 ...only by the freest activity in the way
constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man and
lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
SwM 4.93 19 ...there is a class who lead us into
another region,--the world of morals and of will.
SwM 4.95 26 If one should ask the reason of this
intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato
denoted as Reminiscence...
SwM 4.132 13 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young
men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
ShP 4.204 25 The Shakspeare Society have...offered
money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what
result?
ET14 5.252 26 ...a belief like that of Euler and
Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the
mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.
ET14 5.256 25 ...the grave old [English]
poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was
their office to lead to the divine sources...
Pow 6.53 6 There are men who by their sympathetic
attractions...lead the activity of the human race.
Ctr 6.156 1 He who should inspire and lead his race
must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men...
Bhr 6.171 5 The power of a woman of fashion to lead
and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that
she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
Bhr 6.191 26 The novels used to lead us on to a
foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can lead the opinions of
mankind...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
Elo1 7.85 14 In any knot of men conversing on any
subject, the person who knows most about it will...lead the
conversation...
Elo1 7.86 8 In every company the man with the fact is
like the guide you hire to lead your party up a mountain...
DL 7.133 18 He who shall bravely and
gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life
amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore
the life of man to splendor...
Cour 7.254 6 Men admire...the man...who can lead his
telegraph through the ocean from shore to shore;...
SA 8.83 14 One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer
of a regiment; another will have no following.
Elo2 8.128 16 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is
so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk
from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even
terms with boys...that i wish his guardians to consider that they are
thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
Elo2 8.128 18 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is
so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk
from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even
terms with boys, so that he can meet them as an equal, and lead in his
turn,--that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus
preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
Imtl 8.331 7 ...what is called great and powerful
life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral
laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
Imtl 8.345 11 ...whilst I find that all the ways of
virtuous living lead upward and not downward,-yet it is not my duty to
prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is
what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are
known...to lead to different goals.
Chr2 10.117 10 There will always be a class of
imaginative youths, whom poetry, whom the love of beauty, lead to the
adoration of the moral sentiment...
Edc1 10.145 17 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.
Supl 10.163 18 We talk, sometimes, with people whose
conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a
museum...
MoL 10.242 6 [The scholar]...is born one or two
centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he
is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough,
and sent him as a leader to lead.
Schr 10.266 27 ...[the cant of the time] believes
that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks;...
Schr 10.279 25 These gifts, these senses, these
facilities are...all wasted and mischievous when they assume to lead
and not obey.
Plu 10.311 3 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in
every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to
Morals...
LLNE 10.357 23 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious
prophets of a true state of society; one which the tendencies of nature
lead unto...
LS 11.12 10 These views of the original account of
the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and
prophetic interest...
LS 11.21 20 What I revere and obey in [Christianity]
is its reality...the persuasion and courage that come out thence to
lead me upward and onward.
HDC 11.36 3 ...the rough welcome which the new land
gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead
in it.
HDC 11.86 11 The merit of those who fill a space in
the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight
of thousands whom they lead, sheds a perfume less sweet than do the
sacrifices of private virtue.
War 11.154 10 Considerations of this [historical]
kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
FSLC 11.212 23 It was the praise of Athens, She could
not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a
little band to defeat those who could.
FSLN 11.230 24 [Reasonably men]
answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the
[Democratic] party...
ACiv 11.300 1 ...a literal, slavish following of
precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of
this people.
ALin 11.328 12 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to
lead;/...
Wom 11.412 21 ...the starry crown of woman is in the
power of her affection and sentiment, and the infinite enlargements to
which they lead.
Shak1 11.452 24 ...there are some men so born to live
well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well,
and lead it!...
PLT 12.27 12 These views of the source of thought and
the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
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 12.56 14 There are two theories of life;... One
is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in
the belief that what is so natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
II 12.80 9 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let
the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.
II 12.86 8 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously
whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to
an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.
CInt 12.126 14 ...that which [Harvard College] exists
for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift
and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
Bost 12.188 18 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of
principle, obeying a sentiment, and marching loyally whither that
should lead them;...
Bost 12.188 24 ...Boston commands attention as the
town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the
civilization of North America.
Milt1 12.257 2 Perfections of body and of mind are
attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had
not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would
lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
MLit 12.331 16 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to
get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's
relation to Nature.
Let 12.394 6 ...to fifteen letters on Communities,
and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated
class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the
writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
leaden, adj. (1)
Cour 7.252 2 Peril around, all else appalling,/
Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion
calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
Leader, Lost, The [Robert (1)
FSLN 11.216 10 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was
for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/
He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the
rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
leader, n. (29)
Mrs1 3.125 24 If the aristocrat is only valid in
fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in
fashion;...
Mrs1 3.129 16 ...if the people should destroy class
after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the
leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
Pol1 3.208 24 Our quarrel with [political parties]
begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some
leader...
SwM 4.98 4 Shall we say, that the economical mother
disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not
add a pennyweight, though a nation is perishing for a leader?
SwM 4.110 18 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a
leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has
given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and
a beating heart.
NMW 4.240 14 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king
only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious
masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
NMW 4.241 16 The best document of [Napoleon's]
relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the
battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he
will keep his person out of reach of fire. This
declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their
leader.
NMW 4.257 6 Never was such a leader so endowed and so
weaponed [as Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
ET4 5.61 25 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my
father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed
him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been
to find in the country, nor especially such a leader as King Harold was
for wisdom and bravery.
ET13 5.218 24 Here in England every day a chapter of
Genesis, and a leader in the Times.
ET15 5.269 25 Every slip of an Oxonian or
Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the
earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
ET15 5.272 18 [If the London Times would cleave to
the right] It would be the natural leader of British reform;...
Pow 6.59 11 When a new boy comes into school...that
happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture
where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the
best pair of horns and the new-comer, and it is settled thenceforth
which is the leader.
Ill 6.312 21 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow
and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
Elo1 7.71 24 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks
broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground, but
he, like a leader, walks about the bands of the men.
Cour 7.259 18 ...the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
PPo 8.253 9 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the
starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
Grts 8.320 15 With self-respect...there must be in
the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men
of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
Chr2 10.103 2 ...the memory and tradition of such a
[steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only
half understand him...
MoL 10.242 6 [The scholar]...is born one or two
centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he
is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough,
and sent him as a leader to lead.
MoL 10.251 25 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl
Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on
the measures of the Radicals.
Schr 10.262 18 Stung by this intellectual conscience,
we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly
overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...the leader of gods and
men...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
Plu 10.297 24 [Plutarch] is...not a leader of the
mind of a generation, like Plato or Goethe.
LLNE 10.352 13 [Fourier] treats man as...something
that may be...made into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the
leader;...
EWI 11.135 16 ...[emancipation in the West Indies]
was achieved by plain means of plain men, working not under a leader,
but under a sentiment.
CPL 11.498 3 The town [Concord] was settled by a
pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of
their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they
shared.
Leader of the Muses, n. (1)
Insp 8.284 19 Goethe acknowledges [the fine
influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the
nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...
leaders, n. (29)
LT 1.269 7 The leaders of the crusades against War,
Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
LT 1.289 19 ...in all the details of our domestic or
civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes
to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...of the
race.
YA 1.387 27 Who should lead the leaders, but the
Young American?
Art1 2.354 26 It is the habit of certain minds to
give an all-excluding fulness to the object, the thought, the word,
they alight upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the
world. These are the artists, the orators, the leaders of society.
Chr1 3.100 11 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...to
whom all parties feel related, both the leaders of opinion and the
obscure and eccentric,--he helps;...
Mrs1 3.138 13 To the leaders of men, the brain as
well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
Pol1 3.208 15 Parties...have better guides to their
own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
Pol1 3.209 3 A party is perpetually corrupted by
personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we
cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
Pol1 3.212 11 Lynch-law prevails only where there is
greater hardihood and self-subsistency in the leaders.
UGM 4.20 8 Mankind have in all ages attached
themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of
leaders and law-givers.
UGM 4.30 24 Why are the masses...food for knives and
powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death
sacred;...
GoW 4.268 9 This disparagement [of speculative
thought] will not come from the leaders, but from inferior persons.
CbW 6.258 23 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men
are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and
especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this
stuff...
Plu 10.322 14 ...as it was the desire of these old
patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome, and not
a few leaders only, we hasten to offer them to the American people.
LLNE 10.354 22 It is the worst of community that it
must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...
LLNE 10.363 26 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell,
was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm], and more or less directly
interested in the leaders and the success.
LLNE 10.365 14 It was a curious experience of the
patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm]...that in
every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the
advantages of the society...
GSt 10.506 3 ...this sudden association now with the
leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the
nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
EWI 11.128 24 There are causes in the composition of
the British legislature, and the relation of its leaders to the country
and to Europe, which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in
other legislative assemblies.
EWI 11.144 10 ...now, the arrival in the world of
such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in
Barbadoes and Jamaica, utweighs in good omen all the English and
American humanity.
War 11.152 26 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to
distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
EPro 11.315 5 These [poetic acts] are the jets of
thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the
else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
ALin 11.332 3 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each
fails on trial;...
EdAd 11.388 23 ...we have seen the best
understandings of New England, the trusted leaders of her
counsels...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New
England sentiment any longer.
leadership, n. (3)
ET5 5.82 25 Their self-respect...and their realistic
logic...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
Pow 6.60 14 Vivacity, leadership, must be had...
FSLC 11.203 12 [Webster] indulged occasionally in
excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on
slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those
critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
leading, adj. (40)
Mrs1 3.123 20 Power first, or no leading class.
Pol1 3.209 16 The vice of our leading parties in this
country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and
necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
NER 3.251 4 Whoever has had opportunity of
acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five
years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute
any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will
have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
SwM 4.104 14 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with
the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
SwM 4.105 13 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one
or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg
another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading
part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a
success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best
and inmost in his mind.
GoW 4.271 20 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when
Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell
the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
GoW 4.275 3 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of
modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of
botany...
ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
ET15 5.264 26 [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.
F 6.4 23 If one would study his own time, it must be
by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which
belong to our scheme of human life...
Wth 6.90 11 The Saxons are the merchants of the
world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race...
Ctr 6.144 16 I knew a leading man in a leading city,
who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed
it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who
had gone thither.
Ctr 6.149 27 The head of a commercial house or a
leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops
of men from all parts of the country...
Bhr 6.171 2 We send girls of a timid, retreating
disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into
acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
Wsp 6.209 20 When Paul Leroux offered his article
Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La
question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
Wsp 6.212 21 It has been charged that a want of
sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American
society.
Boks 7.202 2 An excellent popular book is J. A. St.
John's Ancient Greece; the Life and Letters of Niebuhr, even more than
his Lectures, furnish leading views;...
Aris 10.65 18 I do not know whether that word
Gentleman, although it signifies a leading idea in recent civilization,
is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave
fact of self-reliance.
Chr2 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is]
of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may
chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
Edc1 10.139 27 Everybody delights in the energy with
which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet
defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
Edc1 10.149 27 Happy the natural college thus
self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens
around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind.
SovE 10.204 23 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism, in which wit takes the place of faith in the
leading spirits...
GSt 10.505 26 These interests, which [George Stearns]
passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication
with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with two
Presidents...and with leading people everywhere.
LS 11.8 27 ...the leading circumstances in the
Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
EWI 11.99 10 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was
the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question
on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record
his vote;...
FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a
leading part in large private and in public affairs;...
ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the
details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great
ability by several of its leading advocates.
Wom 11.414 10 ...in every remarkable religious
development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
Wom 11.414 15 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan
faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess,
that she has among the ancient Greeks...
Wom 11.423 21 ...when I read the list of men...of
social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the
commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to
be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly
betrayed.
leading, n. (9)
Dem1 10.16 5 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous
external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to
his own care.
LLNE 10.337 17 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging
down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...was a leading
to a truth which had not yet been announced.
EPro 11.324 7 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to
follow Southern leading.
PLT 12.19 13 ...when we have come, by a divine
leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or
representative character of what we esteemed final.
II 12.86 6 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously
whither.
CL 12.144 24 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have
frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of
the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been
first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never
have been settled at all.
Milt1 12.268 19 [Milton's] views of choice of
profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
leading, v. (17)
Nat 1.42 12 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner,
the merchant...have each an experience...leading to the same
conclusion...
YA 1.395 10 If only the men are employed in
conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is
leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of
others' censures...
Exp 3.74 4 ...in accepting the leading of the
sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the
material circumstance...
PNR 4.87 18 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he
paints, in Timaeus, a god leading things from disorder into order.
Bhr 6.187 19 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy
of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy
ghost.
Wsp 6.242 4 ...the good Laws themselves are
alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty...
SA 8.106 25 ...those people, and no others, interest
us...who are absorbed, if you please to say so, in their own dream.
They only can give the key and leading to better society...
SA 8.107 10 These are the bases of civil and polite
society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public
action; whether political, or in the leading of social institutions.
Elo2 8.120 10 ...there are physical advantages,--some
eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
Grts 8.307 2 ...there is a teaching for [every man]
from within which is leading him in a new path...
EzRy 10.386 19 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr.
Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of
leading in prayer;...
MAng1 12.225 26 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of
Ara Celi leading to the church once the temple of Jupiter
Capitolinus;...
MLit 12.314 27 The great man, even whilst he relates
a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to
an universal experience.
leadings, n. (3)
Con 1.324 26 I am primarily engaged to myself...to
demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the
heart of things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings.
NER 3.285 20 May [the heart] not quit other leadings,
and listen to the Soul...
Civ 7.23 16 The skilful combinations of civil
government, though they usually follow natural leadings...require
wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
lead-pencils, n. (1)
leads, v. (48)
MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may
well listen, because they must listen.
MN 1.210 1 If [a man] listen with insatiable
ears...he is the fool of ideas, and leads a heavenly life.
Con 1.316 27 ...the gravity and sense of some slave
Moses who leads away his fellow slaves from their masters;...sufficed
to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the
sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Hist 2.23 19 ...every thing is in turn intelligible
to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to
which that fact or series belongs.
SR 2.64 4 The inquiry leads us to that source...of
life, which we call... Instinct.
Comp 2.112 10 The terror of cloudless noon...the
instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a
noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the
balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
OS 2.296 11 The soul gives itself, alone, original
and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition,
gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it.
Nat2 3.190 1 ...there is throughout
nature...something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere;...
UGM 4.26 26 ...we feed on genius...and exult in the
depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us.
UGM 4.33 3 The study of many individuals leads us to
an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
PPh 4.70 17 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the
greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to
that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the
organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
SwM 4.131 6 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely,
when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent
leads to satire...
SwM 4.140 8 The illuminated Quakers explained their
Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
SwM 4.145 17 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some
transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or
jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what
integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that
leads up to man and to God.
MoS 4.174 9 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable
friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly
insight...
Bty 6.288 25 ...the working of this deep instinct
makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of
vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
Bty 6.289 23 In the true mythology Love is an
immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide...
Ill 6.323 8 At the top or at the bottom of all
illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for
appearances;...
Art2 7.40 10 We find that the question, What is Art?
leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist?
Elo1 7.67 14 This range of many powers in the
consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of
oratory.
Cour 7.255 3 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of
men, knows how to come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise
to the very point where they would be...
Cour 7.274 5 ...[the religious sentiment] is always
new, leads and surprises...
PI 8.37 4 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or
in love, as his heart leads him.
Res 8.135 3 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit
leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and
foreshowed./
PPo 8.246 22 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the
earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./
PPo 8.246 24 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the
mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and
north./
PPo 8.260 26 I know this perilous love-lane/ No
whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy
tangled tresses feeds./
Grts 8.310 18 ...there is for each a Best Counsel
which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment. And the
path of each, pursued, leads to greatness.
Edc1 10.145 14 Happy this child...with a thought
which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an
idea.
Edc1 10.157 8 The will, the male power...makes that
military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous
when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it...
LS 11.19 13 Most men find the bread and wine [of the
Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful
impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I
think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
EdAd 11.387 21 Bad as it is, this freedom [in
America] leads onward and upward...
FRep 11.542 21 ...man seems to play...a certain part
that even tells on the general face of the planet...leads rivers into
dry countries for their irrigation...
PLT 12.54 22 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way,
but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in
Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the
river-bank...
Bost 12.200 24 The American idea, Emancipation...has,
of course, its sinister side...but if followed it leads to heavenly
places.
MLit 12.314 22 ...the criterion which discriminates
these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency
of his composition; namely, whether it leads us to Nature, or to the
person of the writer.
MLit 12.315 3 [The great man's] own affection is in
Nature...and, of course, all his communication leads outward to it...
MLit 12.317 13 Perhaps no considerable minority, no
one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
Trag 12.416 11 Analogous supplies are made to those
individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and
mind.
leaf, n. (54)
Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to
essences unchanged by man;...the leaf.
Nat 1.23 23 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the
ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.
Nat 1.40 25 ...every change of vegetation from the
first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf...shall hint or thunder
to man the laws of right and wrong...
Nat 1.43 11 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of
time, is related to the whole...
AmS 1.86 17 ...to this schoolboy under the bending
dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;
one is leaf and one is flower;...
AmS 1.96 3 A strange process too, this by which
experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted
into satin.
MN 1.201 11 There is...no detachment of an
individual. Hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an
exponent of the world.
MN 1.203 23 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the
whole tree,-root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed...
MN 1.204 5 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that
impression nature makes on us is this...that there is in it no private
will, no rebel leaf or limb...
Comp 2.107 5 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for
a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
SL 2.137 13 When the fruit is despatched, the leaf
falls.
Fdsp 2.197 25 Is it not that the soul puts forth
friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the
germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
Pt1 3.22 14 This expression or naming is not art, but
a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree.
Mrs1 3.138 11 The flower of courtesy does not very
well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore
what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual
quality.
NR 3.239 5 The rotation which whirls every leaf and
pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man...
SwM 4.107 12 In the plant, the eye or germinative
point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf...
SwM 4.107 13 In the plant, the eye or germinative
point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of
transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract,
sepal, or seed.
GoW 4.261 13 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on
the mountain;...the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
GoW 4.275 4 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of
modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of
botany...
GoW 4.275 5 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of
modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of
botany...
GoW 4.275 6 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of
modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf
to meet a new condition;...
GoW 4.275 8 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may
be converted into any other organ...
GoW 4.275 9 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may
be converted into any other organ, and any other organ into a leaf.
ET13 5.224 6 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the
religion of England. The first leaf of the New Testament it does not
open.
F 6.5 11 The Turk, who believes his doom is written
on the iron leaf... rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
F 6.15 14 [Nature] turns the gigantic pages,-leaf
after leaf...
F 6.15 15 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...
F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp,
root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
Pow 6.77 17 'T is the same ounce of gold here in a
ball, and there in a leaf.
PI 8.8 13 In botany we have...the poetic perception
of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the
unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part, as
bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or seed.
SA 8.98 5 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by
anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
QO 8.201 1 One leaf, one blade of grass, one
meridian, does not resemble another.
Chr2 10.105 24 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No
leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin)
to-day.
SovE 10.206 17 The Orientals believe in Fate. That
which shall befall them is written on the iron leaf;...
LLNE 10.338 13 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in
Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;-the eye of a leaf is
all;...
LLNE 10.338 15 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in
Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant
from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...
LLNE 10.338 15 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in
Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is
nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among
some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775, in a blank
leaf of which he has written a narrative of the fight [battle of
Concord];...
EWI 11.143 14 Eaters and food are in the harmony of
Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding gigantic
leaf after leaf...
EPro 11.323 6 [The Civil War] might have begun
otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf...
CL 12.151 8 In May, the bursting of the leaf...
CL 12.151 10 ...the oak and maple are red with the
same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is
ripe.
Bost 12.183 12 An aerial fluid streams all day, all
night, from every flower and leaf...
EurB 12.366 3 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the
Dante...have...the eye to see...the serratures of every leaf...
leaf-bud, n. (1)
SR 2.67 10 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's]
whole life acts;...
leaf-buds, n. (1)
leafless, adj. (3)
SR 2.67 12 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's]
whole life acts;...in the leafless root there is no less.
MMEm 10.415 13 'T was I [Nature] who soothed your
thorny childhood, though you knew me not, and you were placed in my
most leafless waste.
leaf-stem, n. (1)
QO 8.187 23 ...if we learn how old are...the
alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think
very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
leafy, adj. (2)
SMC 11.348 8 Think you these felt no charms/ In their
gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet
had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them
had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
SHC 11.431 5 A simultaneous movement has, in a
hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient
piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay
the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
League, English, n. (1)
YA 1.380 13 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people indicates that Government has other offices
than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the English League
against the Corn Laws;...
league, n. (5)
Con 1.296 27 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus], thou
art in league with Night...
Comp 2.115 24 The league between virtue and nature
engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
Comc 8.166 12 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to
our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held
forth by Brother Patch/...
PC 8.209 4 The war gave us the abolition of slavery,
the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of
social science;...the free-trade league;...
League, n. (2)
ET15 5.264 4 [The London Times] adopted the League
against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it
announced his triumph.
League, The, n. (1)
MoS 4.164 15 In the civil wars of the
League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
leagues, n. (5)
Fdsp 2.213 14 Only be admonished by what you already
see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
SA 8.94 14 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go
five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
PerF 10.69 4 The hero in the fairy-tales has a
servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred
leagues in half an hour;...
RBur 11.441 27 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,-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble...
leak, n. (2)
Wth 6.119 18 [A farm] requires as much watching as if
you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with
it, stops every leak...
Cour 7.263 24 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or
a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
leaks, v. (1)
Wth 6.119 21 [A farm] requires as much watching as if
you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with
it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it
all leaks away.
leaky, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.196 1 [Beautiful manners] must always show
self-control; you shall not be facile, apologetic, or leaky...
lean, adj. (5)
MoS 4.167 5 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy
opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble
and prose about what I certainly know...my old lean bald pate;...
Comc 8.171 19 A lady of high rank, but of lean
figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier
tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
Aris 10.56 19 Rather let us be alone whilst we live,
than encounter these lean kine.
Carl 10.495 11 In proportion to the peals of laughter
amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender, and shows the
lean hypocrisy to every vantage of ridicule, does he worship whatever
enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
HDC 11.34 20 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore
travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the
earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground, which, the
first year, yielded them a lean crop...
lean, v. (10)
Hist 2.20 8 What would...neat porches and wings have
been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi
could sit as watchmen or lean on the pillars of the interior?
SR 2.80 18 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do
well, presently their neat new pinfold...will lean...
SR 2.82 16 ...our opinions, our tastes, our
faculties, lean, and follow the Past...
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.
Leander, n. (1)
QO 8.186 9 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of
The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and
Leander, where the prayer of Leander is the same...
leaned, v. (3)
Tran 1.338 6 ...all who by strong bias of nature have
leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their
goal.
SlHr 10.445 17 Society had reason to cherish [Samuel
Hoar], for he was a main pillar on which it leaned.
leaning, adj. (4)
Art2 7.55 15 The leaning towers originated from the
civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
Art2 7.55 19 The leaning towers originated from the
civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it
became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a
leaning tower was built.
leaning, n. (1)
Thor 10.472 25 ...as [Thoreau] discovered everywhere
among doctors some leaning of courtesy, it discredited them.
leaning, v. (6)
ET1 5.10 15 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick
old man...leaning on his cane.
Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his
head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the
crowd.
Wsp 6.202 15 The solar system has no anxiety about
its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor
have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on
the sides of fate, of practical power...
ALin 11.332 13 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good
nature...fair-minded, leaning to the claim of the petitioner;...
leans, v. (4)
EWI 11.106 1 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West
Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the
laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on
earth could ever render such iniquities legal. But the decisions are
against you, and Lord Mansfield, now Chief Justice of England, leans to
the decisions.
leap, n. (3)
Pt1 3.23 27 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. At the end of a very short
leap they fall plump down and rot...
Nat2 3.179 19 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in
creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
leap, v. (8)
LE 1.156 25 Men looked...that nature...should
reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should laugh and leap in the
continent...
Hsm1 2.246 30 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or
Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
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, and leap to hear it.
Elo1 7.85 24 ...in the examination of witnesses there
usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are
the pith and fate of the business...
Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;
how to leap to the result by short or by false means?
leaped, v. (5)
MoS 4.153 4 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to
conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
WD 7.184 26 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and
that of Apollo leaped out first.
Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps
Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the
wind the shell of Clio rung./
HDC 11.74 20 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground,
and gave the command to fire...
leapers, n. (1)
leaping, adj. (2)
ET4 5.71 6 The people at home [in England] are
addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
leaping, n. (1)
Scot 11.464 17 Just so much thought, so much
picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad
required, so much suppression of details and leaping to the event,
[Scott] would keep and use...
leaping, v. (3)
Bhr 6.178 26 Eyes are bold as lions,--roving,
running, leaping...
Insp 8.274 24 Plato...notes that the perception is
only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect,
and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light, as if
leaping from a fire, will on a sudden be enkindled...
leaps, v. (5)
Pt1 3.12 18 Oftener it falls that this winged man,
who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as
it were from cloud to cloud...
ShP 4.206 21 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins;
one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and
sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
SMC 11.353 25 ...when you replace the love of family
or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the
state-line...leaps the mountains, bridges river and lake...
leapt, v. (1)
Trag 12.405 21 Projects that once we laughed and
leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the
snow.
leap-year, n. (1)
Lear, King [Shakespeare, K (1)
PI 8.28 13 Lear, mad with his affliction, thinks
every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
Lear, King [William Shakes (5)
OS 2.289 19 The inspiration which uttered itself in
Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day for ever.
OS 2.289 21 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and
Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from
the tongue"
NR 3.233 5 Shakspeare's passages of passion (for
example, in Lear and Hamlet) are in the very dialect of the present
year.
PI 8.30 24 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with
the main problem of the tragedy, as in Lear...
Lear River, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.179 11 Cambridge is the bridge of the
Cam;...Leicester the castra, or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now
Soar);....
learn, v. (198)
Nat 1.66 13 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world...
Nat 1.70 2 ...we learn to prefer imperfect
theories...to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
AmS 1.87 16 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of
this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
AmS 1.98 13 Life lies behind us as the quarry from
whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is
the way to learn grammar.
LE 1.177 3 ...literary men...dealing with the organ
of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid
engine...
LE 1.178 13 Believing, as in God, in the presence and
favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor,
and learn how to receive and use it...
LE 1.184 6 ...out of this superior frankness and
charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
MN 1.198 1 Every earnest glance we give to the
realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy
impulse...
MR 1.243 2 Let [the man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] learn to eat his meals standing...
LT 1.288 21 ...where but in the intuitions which are
vouchsafed us from within, shall we learn the Truth?
Con 1.301 26 ...we must...suffer men to learn as they
have done for six millenniums, a word at time;...
Con 1.302 1 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off
into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the
denial of an equal amount of truth.
Tran 1.358 22 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea
speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...
YA 1.375 10 We should be mortified to learn that the
little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost
[the things we do] would yield.
YA 1.379 11 That is the moral of all we learn, that
it warrants Hope...
Hist 2.5 9 We, as we read, must...fasten these images
to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing
rightly.
SR 2.45 18 A man should learn to detect and watch
that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
Comp 2.118 1 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented,
defeated, he has a chance to learn something;...
Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St.
Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
Prd1 2.235 15 Let [a man] learn that every thing in
nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
Hsm1 2.257 21 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a
little, we may come to learn that here is best.
Hsm1 2.259 19 Let the maiden, with erect
soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she
may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being...
Cir 2.307 27 How often must we learn this lesson? Men
cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
Int 2.331 9 At last comes the era of
reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we act, intent
to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent
objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...
Art1 2.356 11 ...I also learn that what astonished
and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the
second work also;...
Pt1 3.3 7 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of
taste] are beautiful souls... you learn that they are selfish and
sensual.
Chr1 3.91 17 ...the most confident and the most
violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance
on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
Chr1 3.93 22 [The natural merchant] too
believes...that a man must be born to trade or he cannot learn it.
Chr1 3.99 4 The same transport which the occurrence
of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to
taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour
meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Mrs1 3.132 4 The maiden at her first ball, the
countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according
to which every act and compliment must be performed, or the failing
party must be cast out of this presence. Later they learn that good
sense and character make their own forms every moment...
Mrs1 3.152 19 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our
society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...
NER 3.257 26 ...it seems as if a man should learn to
plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at
all events...
NER 3.259 23 If the physician, the lawyer, the
divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never
learn it to come at mine.
NER 3.278 11 We are haunted with a belief that you
[reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to
learn...
NER 3.284 8 ...[man] will learn one day the mild
lesson [gravity and the globe] teach, that our own orbit is all our
task...
UGM 4.17 5 ...we thus [through the acts of the
intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks...
UGM 4.29 13 ...if we indulge [children] to folly,
they learn the limitation elsewhere.
PPh 4.50 2 What is the great end of all [said
Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...
SwM 4.95 18 In common parlance, what one man is said
to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said,
without experience, to divine.
SwM 4.101 27 One is glad to learn that [Swedenborg's]
books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who
understand these matters.
MoS 4.186 5 ...let [a man] learn to bear the
disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his
reverence;...
MoS 4.186 7 ...let [a man] learn that he is here, not
to work but to be worked upon;...
GoW 4.290 6 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues
from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
ET1 5.15 19 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the
familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with
his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn what was
predestined to be a pretty mythology.
ET11 5.187 3 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
ET16 5.278 25 We are not yet too late to learn much
more than is known of this structure [Stonehenge].
ET18 5.304 17 ...[the English] read with good intent,
and what they learn they incarnate.
F 6.1 7 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of
scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
F 6.4 13 ...by harping...on each string, we learn at
last its power.
F 6.15 4 Now we learn that negative power, or
circumstance, is half.
F 6.32 5 ...learn to swim, trim your bark, and the
wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
F 6.32 10 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give
you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
Pow 6.59 17 The weaker party finds that none of his
information or wit quite fits the occasion. He thought he knew this or
that; he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it.
Pow 6.68 8 All the elements whose aid man calls in
will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle
force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity, or shall he
learn to deal with them?
Pow 6.78 10 The way to learn German is to read the
same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
Ctr 6.143 26 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the
art of power, which it is [the boy's] main business to learn;...
Ctr 6.158 25 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; as when we learn of Lord
Fairfax...his passion for antiquarian studies;...
Bhr 6.171 3 We send girls of a timid, retreating
disposition...to the ball-room... where they may learn address, and see
it near at hand.
Bhr 6.171 8 The power of a woman of fashion to lead
and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that
she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these
have mastered her secret they learn to confront her...
CbW 6.260 23 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider
truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
CbW 6.268 24 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the
lesson that there is but one depth...
Ill 6.316 19 Teague and his jade...learn something,
and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
SS 7.10 26 If you would learn to write, 't is in the
street you must learn it.
SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take
diseases, one of another.
Art2 7.42 5 Man seems to have no option about his
tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit
best...
Elo1 7.96 12 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing
to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.
DL 7.127 23 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw
from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of
this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best
relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to
form.
WD 7.173 21 Ah! poor dupe, will you...never learn
that as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory
between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as
the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I
study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
Boks 7.189 19 ...after reading to weariness the
lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a
surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of
this kind as rubbish.
Boks 7.196 7 Do not read what you shall learn,
without asking, in the street and the train.
Boks 7.201 20 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to
learn our way in the streets of Athens...
Clbs 7.229 12 ...the days come when we are alarmed,
and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the
student says; I will go and learn whether I have lost my reason.
Clbs 7.234 1 One lesson we learn early,--that...men
are all of one pattern.
Suc 7.290 11 I hate this shallow Americanism which
hopes...to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology...
PI 8.23 19 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing
we learn, we are doing and learning all things...
SA 8.85 5 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment
of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by
your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
SA 8.95 24 The great gain is...not to conquer your
companion,--then you learn nothing but conceit...
SA 8.106 15 Would we codify the laws that should
reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
Elo2 8.118 11 It does not surprise us...to learn from
Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of
rhetoric;...
Elo2 8.119 3 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that
eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn,
though so few do.
Elo2 8.128 23 In England they send the most delicate
and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with
boys in the public schools.
Res 8.152 12 If I go into the woods in winter, and am
shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in
Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
Comc 8.173 22 We must learn by laughter, as well as
by tears and terrors;...
QO 8.187 20 ...if we learn how old are the patterns
of our shawls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of
the latest.
PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to
stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
Insp 8.286 25 ...eminently thoughtful men...have
insisted on an hour of solitude every day, to meet their own mind and
learn what oracle it has to impart.
Grts 8.313 23 ...Every man I meet is my master in
some point, and in that I learn of him.
Dem1 10.6 25 We fear lest the poor brute [the
dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this
fettering organization.
Dem1 10.9 6 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose
turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same
affection.
Aris 10.66 3 ...the American who would serve his
country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
PerF 10.73 20 ...we see the causes of evils and learn
to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...
Edc1 10.128 12 The household is a school of power.
Here, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
Edc1 10.142 20 ...the most genial and amiable of men
must alternate society with solitude, and learn its severe lessons.
Edc1 10.147 15 [The boy] can learn anything which is
important to him now that the power to learn is secured...
Edc1 10.147 17 [The boy] can learn anything which is
important to him now that the power to learn is secured...
Edc1 10.148 25 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to
coast...
SovE 10.192 5 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by
unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
MoL 10.251 18 Learn of Samuel Johnson...that it is a
primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
MoL 10.257 23 I learn with joy and with deep respect
that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
Schr 10.269 1 Talk frankly with [the practical men]
and you learn that you have little to tell them;...
Schr 10.271 8 I incline to concede the isolation
which [wealth] asks, that it may learn that it is not independent but
parasitical.
Schr 10.283 11 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books,
but knew it all already;...
Plu 10.294 5 ...though [Plutarch] found or made
friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
MMEm 10.415 27 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] senses and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to
learn my own unpopular destiny...
Thor 10.473 27 [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: It was well worth a visit to California to learn it.
GSt 10.507 12 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen
will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most
efficient benefactors has departed...
HDC 11.45 17 The bands of love and reverence, held
fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the
settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their
soundness and learn on what wheels they ran.
HDC 11.51 16 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of
Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their
desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of
the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion
the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper
race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
AKan 11.257 6 I think we are to give largely,
lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must
learn to do with less...
SMC 11.348 23 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/
Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age
to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of
days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
SMC 11.372 5 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment
[the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed
the Rapidan, on the third.
Wom 11.406 14 [Women] learn so fast and convey the
result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
SHC 11.428 13 Learn from the loved one's rest
serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou
repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this
submissive ground;-/...
FRO1 11.477 6 I came [to the Free Religious
Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee
meeting...where I should happily and humbly learn my lesson;...
FRep 11.530 22 We have much to learn, much to
correct...
PLT 12.6 12 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of
the mind;...
PLT 12.6 13 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but
immense power...
PLT 12.6 14 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but
immense power, or shall begin to learn it;...
PLT 12.14 5 I observe with curiosity [the
Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to live with it
wisely...
PLT 12.58 5 [People] entertain us for a time, but at
the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.
II 12.74 4 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all
memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age.
What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his
opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it...
II 12.79 8 ...you shall not speak of any work of art
except in its presence; then you will continue to learn something...
CL 12.153 7 The freedom [of the sea] makes the
observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we
not learn here a generous eloquence?
CW 12.173 9 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy
Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful
than...vases of the Chinese. Here I learn what I teach.
CW 12.176 5 If you use a good and skilful companion
[on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes; if they be of great
discernment, you will learn wonderful secrets.
CW 12.176 15 ...it is much better to learn the
elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than
dully from a book.
MAng1 12.220 24 Cardinal Farnese one day found
[Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and
expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins; to
which he replied, I go yet to school, that I may continue to learn.
MAng1 12.221 2 ...one of the last drawings in
[Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it
is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an
hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
Milt1 12.273 24 Learn to estimate great characters
[wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the
habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
ACri 12.291 24 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of
Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our
universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of
books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our
words;...
Let 12.400 12 ...is [a man] driven into a
circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him
with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.
learned, adj. (53)
AmS 1.100 6 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the
spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands.
MR 1.239 13 ...instead of those strong and learned
hands...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
MR 1.239 14 ...instead of...those piercing and
learned eyes...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected
person...
MR 1.246 21 One must have been born and bred with
[infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned
stomach.
SR 2.87 23 Men...have come to esteem the religious,
learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
Fdsp 2.206 19 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its
perfection, say some who are learned in this warm lore of the heart,
betwixt more than two.
Chr1 3.91 11 [The people] cannot come at their ends
by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be
not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them,
was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
SwM 4.140 14 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a
confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
MoS 4.178 9 ...through all the offices, learned,
civil and social, can detect the child.
NMW 4.224 24 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That
tendency is material... widely and accurately learned and skilful...
GoW 4.270 26 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in
the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have
come in. There is...no learned man, but learned societies...
GoW 4.270 27 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in
the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have
come in. There is...no learned man, but learned societies...
GoW 4.273 12 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If
that was learned... this man's mind had ample chambers for the
distribution of all.
GoW 4.282 8 In the learned journal, in the
influential newspaper, I discern no form;...
ET12 5.202 6 I do not know whether this learned body
[at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American
Independence...
ET12 5.206 27 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic
[at Eton]...is critically learned in all the humanities.
ET13 5.220 1 These [English] minsters were neither
built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned,
industrious or devoted men;...
ET14 5.245 8 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant
scholar, has written the history of European literature for three
centuries...
ET14 5.251 7 ...there is no end to the graces and
amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in
England].
ET15 5.268 12 [The London Times] draws from any
number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and
skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
Civ 7.17 2 We flee away from cities, but we bring/
The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers/...
Elo1 7.88 26 ...I read without surprise that the
black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable
decisions, as if they were not also learned.
WD 7.179 17 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.
Boks 7.194 27 Dr. Johnson said...read anything five
hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
Boks 7.197 11 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all
the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
PI 8.50 5 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and
see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a
vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience
of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as
planets and moons obey...
PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice
is prurient, learned, Parisian.
Elo2 8.112 11 There are not only the wants of the
intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met...
Res 8.154 3 The healthy, the civil, the industrious,
the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to
these.
Insp 8.287 9 I confide that my reader...has perhaps
Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the
wind the shell of Clio rung./
Edc1 10.149 19 ...in literature,the young man who has
taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned
friend...
Schr 10.273 10 In our experiences, learning is not
learned, nor is genius wise.
Plu 10.295 2 ...the first printed edition of the
Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in
his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of
Germany, Spain and Italy.
Plu 10.316 27 I can almost regret that the learned
editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not
preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
Plu 10.320 26 In spite of its carelessness and
manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its
present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of
this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
EzRy 10.382 26 There were an unusually large number
of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...the late learned
Dr. Prince of Salem.
Thor 10.449 7 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures
more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned
men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
Thor 10.472 18 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its
discoverer, or even its member. Perhaps these learned bodies feared the
satire of his presence.
JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable.
CPL 11.504 14 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet
said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
PLT 12.7 5 ...these questions which really interest
men, how few can answer. Here are learned faculties of law and
divinity, but would questions like these come into mind when I see
them?
PLT 12.7 8 Here are learned academies and
universities, yet they have not propounded these [questions which
really interest men] for any prize.
Milt1 12.262 3 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I
am...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of
eloquence have written in any learned tongue...
Milt1 12.269 8 Milton, gentle, learned...was set down
in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
ACri 12.286 7 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that
giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we
learned ones come together...
PPr 12.389 5 That morbid temperament has given
[Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many
imaginative and learned persons...
Learned, Athenians...more... (1)
Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen
appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or
Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
learned, n. (16)
DSA 1.143 11 What was once a mere circumstance,
that...the learned and the ignorant...should meet one day as fellows in
one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
Int 2.344 18 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his
office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
PPh 4.39 16 The Bible of the learned for twenty-two
hundred years, every brisk young man who says in succession fine things
to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
SwM 4.101 8 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to
England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention
whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
GoW 4.267 24 The Hindoos write in their sacred books,
Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the
practical faculties as two.
ET5 5.100 4 In Germany there is one speech for the
learned, and another for the masses...
ET7 5.126 7 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says
of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally
whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels
undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned
say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/...
ET12 5.201 2 ...[Oxford] is, in British story...the
link of England to the learned of Europe.
Wsp 6.241 2 There are two things, said Mahomet, which
I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his
devotions.
Boks 7.197 26 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history
contains inestimable anecdotes, which brought it with the learned into
a sort of disesteem;...
Elo2 8.126 6 ...the learned forsake the vulgar, when
the vulgar is right;...
FRO1 11.476 9 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language
falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor
power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn
nor prayer nor church./
Milt1 12.259 16 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...where...he received social and
academical honors from the learned and the great.
ACri 12.283 24 ...the transformation of the laborer
into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to
address them.
ACri 12.284 14 ...the learned depart from established
forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
learned, v. (105)
Nat 1.66 14 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned
by any addition...of known quantities...
AmS 1.86 23 ...when he has learned to worship the
soul...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge
as to a becoming creator.
AmS 1.113 19 I learned, said the melancholy
Pestalozzi, that no man...is either willing or able to help any other
man.
DSA 1.138 7 The capital secret of his profession,
namely, to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
LE 1.181 16 Let [the scholar] know that...in a
contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is
to be learned...
LE 1.183 6 They whom [the student's] thoughts have
entertained or inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard
conditions of thought.
MR 1.245 11 How can the man who has learned but one
art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
MR 1.245 15 How can the man who has learned but one
art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we
think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them
ill;-yet he has learned their lesson.
SR 2.79 26 The pupil takes the same delight in
subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just
learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
Lov1 2.173 3 Among the throng of girls [the village
boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two
little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
Cir 2.314 9 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his
craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a
partial or approximate statement...
Art1 2.369 3 When science is learned in love, and its
powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and
continuations of the material creation.
Exp 3.75 23 We have learned that we do not see
directly, but mediately...
Mrs1 3.149 14 I have seen an individual whose
manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were
never learned there...
Nat2 3.173 16 Art and luxury have early learned that
they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of
nature].
NR 3.239 14 In every conversation, even the highest,
there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute
person...
UGM 4.8 9 The aid we have from others is mechanical
compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is
delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
PPh 4.65 15 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us
for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in
the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that
having thus learned...set right our own wanderings and blunders.
PNR 4.80 10 Modern science...has learned to indemnify
the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and
ascent in races;...
SwM 4.96 16 ...the soul having heretofore known all,
nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind, or according
to the common phrase has learned, one thing only, should of himself
recover all his ancient knowledge...
SwM 4.118 14 ...whether it be that these things will
not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate
and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet,
rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and
classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
NMW 4.239 19 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the
Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
GoW 4.263 22 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric...
ET2 5.32 1 Among the passengers [on the Washington
Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession; we exchanged
our experiences and all learned something.
ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language
and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...
ET5 5.83 4 This [English] common-sense is a
perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be
stated, or that are learned only by practice...
ET11 5.194 11 I suppose...that a feeling of
self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English
noblemen], as if the noble...had not learned to disguise his pride of
place.
ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned
accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
ET12 5.212 3 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it...
ET14 5.232 5 A strong common sense...marks the
English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to
thought, as of sailors and soldiers who had lately learned to read.
ET14 5.237 24 The manner in which [the English]
learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet
ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the
faculties;...
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 6.79 18 To have learned the use of the tools, by
thousands of manipulations;...is the power of the mechanic...
Pow 6.79 20 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning,
by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
Wth 6.111 7 ...we have to pay, not what would have
contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think
necessary here;...
Ctr 6.143 4 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing
and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned
algebra and geometry in the same time.
Bhr 6.170 11 Genius invents fine manners, which the
baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a
palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have
learned, into a mode.
Bhr 6.170 17 There are certain manners which are
learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he
or she must be considered...
Bhr 6.175 18 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he
has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners
are commanding.
Wsp 6.237 21 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will
presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of
person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive
him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in
their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
DL 7.121 21 In many parts of true economy a cheering
lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later
Romans...
SA 8.82 10 The attitudes of children are gentle,
persuasive, royal...before they have learned to cringe.
Elo2 8.113 24 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the
Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling
to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned
in driving cattle to the hills...
Elo2 8.128 8 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot
learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
Elo2 8.128 26 A few bruises and scratches will do [a
boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.
QO 8.184 2 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book
this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir
G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
Grts 8.304 23 When [young men] have learned that the
parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as
the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength
and education in their choice of place.
Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary
hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the
whole, instruments of great benefit.
Imtl 8.341 8 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is
also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has
learned is that there is much more to be learned.
Imtl 8.341 9 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is
also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has
learned is that there is much more to be learned.
PerF 10.72 22 The husbandry learned in the economy of
heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use
of wit.
PerF 10.79 14 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge
of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning, learned
chemistry...
PerF 10.81 3 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little
wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it;...
Edc1 10.146 4 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought
a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
Edc1 10.147 18 ...as mechanics say, when one has
learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
Schr 10.286 16 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink
insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this
bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
LLNE 10.346 3 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to
sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
MMEm 10.431 17 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am
sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose
nearer views. Well, I learned his existence a priori.
MMEm 10.431 21 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson]
trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events
from the pressure of wants.
MMEm 10.432 2 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who
have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and
enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's
Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in
accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the
early ages.
HDC 11.46 18 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's]
towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
HDC 11.56 21 The people on the [Massachusetts]
bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people
speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
EWI 11.130 16 I have learned that a citizen of
Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of
Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
FSLC 11.196 23 I wonder that our acute people who
have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find
out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a
Southern city.
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!/
JBS 11.279 23 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]
learned the manners of animals...
SMC 11.350 19 ...as we have learned that the upheaved
mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a
glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the
central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord
Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
RBur 11.443 12 The memory of Burns,-every man's,
every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they
say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them
from a book...
II 12.85 26 What you have learned and done, is safe
and fruitful.
Mem 12.99 10 ...there is a wild memory in children
and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
Mem 12.105 9 The Persians say, A real singer will
never forget the song he has once learned.
MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the
muscles...its action and counteraction learned;...
MAng1 12.227 22 ...not only was this discoverer of
Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of
practical skill, which...must be learned by practice alone, but he was
one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
Milt1 12.264 16 [Milton] states these things, he
says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and
moral discipline, learned out of the noblest philosophy, was enough to
keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been
charged on him.
Milt1 12.266 1 [Milton] said, he had learned the
prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the
breath was quite out of the body.
ACri 12.285 3 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry
there, I have learned to speak German.
learnedest, adj. (1)
learnedly, adv. (1)
Pt1 3.36 14 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg]
describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the
children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
learner, n. (5)
Comc 8.168 20 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, seizing a classification...stops in the
classification; or learning languages and reading books...stops in the
languages and books; in both the learner seems to be wise, and is not.
learners, n. (1)
Lov1 2.188 9 We are by nature observers, and thereby
learners.
learnest, v. (2)
CbW 6.273 7 ...few writers have said anything better
to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret
until thou knowest friendship...
PPo 8.258 16 Hafiz says,-Thou learnest no secret
until thou knowest friendship...
Learning, Advancement of [F (1)
Boks 7.207 12 [The scholar] will not repent the time
he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read the Advancement of Learning...
learning, n. (96)
AmS 1.81 21 ...our long apprenticeship to the
learning of other lands, draws to a close.
LE 1.166 4 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition
for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock
to their aid.
LE 1.185 23 When you shall say...I must eat the good
of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then dies
the man in you;...
MN 1.218 13 All your learning of all literatures
would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or
expressions...
SL 2.135 19 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or
our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
Cir 2.312 5 We fill ourselves with ancient
learning...only that we may wiselier see French, English and American
houses and modes of living.
SwM 4.102 21 A colossal soul,
[Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain vastness of learning...is
possible.
SwM 4.135 24 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows
itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign
rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl
and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more
learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
GoW 4.283 8 ...men distinguished for wit and
learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with
a certain levity...
ET12 5.206 2 If a young American, loving
learning...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in
one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
ET12 5.207 4 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and
Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning;...
ET14 5.240 18 If any man thinketh philosophy and
universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all
professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon]
take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning,
because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
ET14 5.240 24 [Bacon] complains that he finds this
part of learning [universality] very deficient...
ET14 5.252 22 [A good Englishman] has learning, good
sense, power of labor, and logic;...
Ctr 6.150 26 ...[the man of the world] allows himself
to be surprised into... the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.
Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face
like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of
topics...
Bhr 6.178 17 There is no nicety of learning sought by
the mind which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
Wsp 6.218 11 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined
advantages of other men can rival.
SS 7.3 10 Do you not see, [my new friend] said, the
penalty of learning...
Civ 7.24 5 ...a severe morality gives that essential
charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and
wit, in her rough mate;...
Civ 7.26 13 ...there have been learning, philosophy
and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.
Elo1 7.67 26 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and
mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning
would be harsh and unwelcome...
Elo1 7.91 5 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts,
learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable
illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and
mislead the audience and the orator.
Elo1 7.94 2 The orator is thereby an orator, that he
keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No
gifts...no power of wit or learning or illustration will make any
amends for want of this.
Boks 7.190 16 A company of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years
have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of
their learning and wisdom.
Boks 7.192 27 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear...whose eyes sweep the whole horizon of learning.
Boks 7.211 7 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an
inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in
observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed,
to infer our opulence.
Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of
[the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or
Seneca, or Boethius...
Clbs 7.231 10 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp
of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
Clbs 7.237 4 ...though they know that there is in the
speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory,
yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is
felt by the frivolous.
Clbs 7.243 8 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet
who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her
house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
Suc 7.302 27 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting
that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters
of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled
than any one man of the past or present time.
SA 8.96 1 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter
destruction of all your logic and learning.
Elo2 8.114 24 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding
life throws all other gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its
own breath, taste, learning and all...
Elo2 8.127 24 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr.
Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog
Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to
improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his
prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to
them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond. Now this
is not want of talent or learning, but of manliness.
Res 8.138 8 A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning
and wit, teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save
him from being odious.
QO 8.179 17 The highest statement of new philosophy
complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest
learning.
Grts 8.312 19 ...[the great man] conceals his
learning, conceals his charity.
Grts 8.315 9 ...the English judge in old times, when
learning was rare, forgave a culprit who could read and write.
Edc1 10.153 15 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to
be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine
of grammars and books of elements.
SovE 10.188 1 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage
kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst
not soar, of eye so keen that it can report of a realm in which all the
wit and learning of the Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
MoL 10.242 20 ...nothing has been able to resist the
tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has
beat down...the piety of learning.
MoL 10.256 7 Very little reliance must be put on the
common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great
barrister's learning...
Schr 10.261 20 ...in the worldly habits which harden
us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have
not let us go;...
Schr 10.262 27 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...heralds of civility, nobility, learning and
wisdom;...
Schr 10.266 13 ...for the moment it appears as if in
former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to
the possessor greater rank and authority.
Schr 10.273 10 In our experiences, learning is not
learned, nor is genius wise.
LLNE 10.330 22 The novelty of the learning lost
nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
LLNE 10.332 1 ...all [Everett's] learning was
available for purposes of the hour. It was all new learning...
LLNE 10.332 5 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...as if in the consciousness and consideration
of all history and all learning ...that...this learning instantly took
the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.332 16 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination...
HDC 11.31 20 Among the silenced [English] clergymen
was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...honored for...his
learning and gifts as a preacher...
HDC 11.56 25 The General Court, in 1647, to the end
that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers,
Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the
number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children
to write and read;...
EWI 11.102 22 The prizes of society...the privileges
of learning...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
War 11.156 25 Not only the moral sentiment, but
trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war]
down.
War 11.157 9 ...learning and art, and especially
religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
FSLC 11.185 17 The learning of the universities, the
culture of elegant society...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black
boy.]
FSLC 11.200 6 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy; what subtlety, what logic, what learning...
FSLN 11.243 27 ...I put it...to every poetic, every
heroic, every religious heart, that not so is our learning...to be
declared.
JBB 11.272 8 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration?
TPar 11.292 17 ...the polished and pleasant traitors
to human rights, with perverted learning and disgraced graces, rot and
are forgotten...
TPar 11.293 3 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in
early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever
learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
EdAd 11.390 11 As soon as men have tasted the
enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State
exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
FRep 11.522 10 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can
be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a
country of such native strength...
PLT 12.19 10 Our eating, trading, marrying, and
learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...
CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and
learning has the author's name on the title-page.
CInt 12.121 4 ...I wish this were a needless task, to
urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.
CInt 12.121 26 ...in the class called intellectual
the men are no better than the uninstructed. They use their wit and
learning in the service of the Devil.
CInt 12.123 11 Will you let me say to you what I
think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
CW 12.171 24 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now
known the country through for their learning...
Bost 12.195 13 The General Court of Massachusetts, in
1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the
forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased
them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach
all children to write and read;...
Milt1 12.249 15 These writings [Milton's tracts] are
wonderful for the truth, the learning...
Milt1 12.250 21 Though it evinces learning and
critical skill, yet, as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of
the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of
Robertson and Hallam...
Milt1 12.259 11 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...
Milt1 12.269 10 Milton...delicately bred in all the
elegancy of art and learning, was set down in England in the stern,
almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
Milt1 12.276 22 ...the genius and office of Milton
were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a
higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
ACri 12.284 21 Goethe valued himself not on his
learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
WSL 12.338 19 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...a
master of all elegant learning...
learning, v. (34)
Nat 1.39 27 ...[man] is learning the secret that he
can reduce under his will not only particular events but great
classes...
OS 2.297 1 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the
ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the
world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
Pol1 3.211 10 ...the older and more cautious among
ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our
turbulent freedom.
ET1 5.13 13 ...on learning that I had been in Malta
and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other...
ET10 5.168 16 The machinist has wrought and watched,
engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning
to tame and guide the monster [steam].
ET11 5.195 11 Already...the English noble and squire
were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his
peaceable expense. They went from city to city, learning receipts to
make perfumes, sweet powders, pomanders, antidotes...preparing for a
private life thereafter...
Bhr 6.181 12 ...each man carries in his eye the exact
indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always
learning to read it.
Wsp 6.233 7 It is related of William of Orange, that
whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning
that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.
Civ 7.20 12 In other races [than the Indian and the
negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his
eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret
of cumulative power...
Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is
awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning
how to meet and avoid his dangers...
PI 8.23 20 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing
we learn, we are doing and learning all things...
Comc 8.168 7 I think there is malice in a very
trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not
suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural
History Society. It is of a boy who was learning his alphabet.
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;...
PPo 8.252 20 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven
were lately learning his last pieces.
Edc1 10.126 21 Those [animals] called domestic are
capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
Edc1 10.130 11 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense
of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining
maze in order...
Edc1 10.149 3 Not less delightful is the mutual
pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
SovE 10.213 10 Now science and philosophy
recognize...how the laws of both [Spirit and Matter] are one, or how
one is the realization. We are learning not to fear truth.
LLNE 10.348 22 We had an opportunity of learning
something of these Socialists and their theory, from...Albert Brisbane.
MMEm 10.406 10 ...no intelligent youth or maiden
could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without...learning something
of value.
Scot 11.463 20 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, but we were then learning to spell.
CPL 11.504 14 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet
said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
Mem 12.100 19 A man would think twice about learning
a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost
a word or a thought for every word he gained.
CL 12.159 8 Those who persist [in walking] from year
to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen, and are
learning all the time;-these we call professors.
CW 12.173 12 Here [in the Academy Garden] I
[Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself
by proofs of every kind, and show them to others. Our people are
learning that lesson year by year.
Bost 12.193 25 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
learning's, n. (1)
Thor 10.477 7 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And
sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/
And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
learns, v. (35)
AmS 1.85 24 [The young mind] presently learns that
since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and
classifying of facts.
AmS 1.103 7 [The scholar]...learns that in going down
into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of
all minds.
AmS 1.103 9 [The scholar] learns that he who has
mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of
all men whose language he speaks...
MR 1.241 8 ...he only can become a master, who learns
the secrets of labor...
Hist 2.29 13 [Each considerate person] learns again
what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
Comp 2.118 3 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented,
defeated...he... learns his ignorance;...
Pt1 3.26 18 It is a secret which every intellectual
man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and
conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to
the nature of things;...
F 6.20 2 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity
which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
Pow 6.78 19 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, the host learns to carve
it...
Wth 6.123 12 Use has made the farmer wise, and the
foolish citizen learns to take his counsel.
Ctr 6.143 2 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing
and theatricals.
Bhr 6.171 12 The mediocre circle learns to demand
that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
Farm 7.139 3 The lesson one learns in fishing,
yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
Cour 7.262 24 The child is as much in danger from...a
cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast
as he precisely understands the peril and learns the means of
resistance.
OA 7.327 16 One by one, day after day, [man] learns
to coin his wishes into facts.
Elo2 8.120 24 I have heard an eminent preacher say
that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning
whether he is to have a successful day.
Grts 8.307 21 [A man] is never happy nor strong until
he...learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to
him...
Dem1 10.16 12 As [the young man] comes into manhood
he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been
supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him. His eyes were
holden that he could not see. But he learns that such risks he may no
longer run.
PerF 10.79 5 The power of a man increases steadily by
continuance in one direction. He...learns the favorable moments and
favorable accidents.
Edc1 10.141 16 The obscure youth learns [in solitude]
the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
Edc1 10.147 21 Letter by letter, syllable by
syllable, the child learns to read...
War 11.152 15 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed
in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and
preparatory state...
CPL 11.496 11 ...I am not sure that when Boston
learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it
will not be a little envious...
FRep 11.514 6 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is
by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real
power is gained...
CInt 12.117 18 Two men cannot converse together on
any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral
judgment; and each learns whether the other's view commands, or is
commanded by, his own.
Trag 12.411 15 The spirit...learns to live in what is
called calamity as easily as in what is called felicity;...
learnt, v. (1)
Milt1 12.277 19 What schools and epochs of common
rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of
[Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What
makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./
lease, n. (1)
Wsp 6.239 9 'T is a higher thing to confide that if
it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this
conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and
millenniums and aeons.
leases, n. (2)
Nat 1.53 11 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that
heretic,/ That works on leases of short numbered hours/...
least, adj. (75)
Nat 1.19 9 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and
felt as beauty, is the least part.
Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a
spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
Nat 1.38 6 The whole character and fortune of the
individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the
understanding;...
AmS 1.93 10 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short
and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perhance, the
least part of his volume.
AmS 1.93 12 The discerning will read, in
his...Shakspeare, only that least part...
AmS 1.94 2 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can
never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
MN 1.200 27 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends
without the least emphasis or preference to any...allows the
understanding no place to work.
LT 1.280 22 Give the slave the least elevation of
religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
Hist 2.37 3 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For
what you see is but the smallest part/ And least proportion of
humanity;/...
SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial
and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
SL 2.162 15 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to
the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest
still.
SL 2.164 3 ...the least [action] admits of being
inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Fdsp 2.211 18 ...the least defect of self-possession
vitiates...the entire relation [of friendship].
OS 2.273 3 The least activity of the intellectual
powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time.
Cir 2.318 11 Do not set the least value on what I do,
or the least discredit on what I do not...
Int 2.347 5 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers]
ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of
their amazed auditory.
Exp 3.43 14 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/
I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/
Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled
look:--/...
Exp 3.60 4 Life itself is a mixture of power and
form, and will not bear the least excess of either.
Mrs1 3.130 5 ...come from year to year and see how
permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or
New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from
the law of the land.
Mrs1 3.131 12 ...the habit even in little and the
least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety,
constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
NR 3.246 2 ...the least of [our earth's] rational
children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though
as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
SwM 4.114 10 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, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least
forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative
of their entire universe.
MoS 4.159 23 This then is the right ground of the
skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of
universal denying...least of all of scoffing and profligate jeering at
all that is stable and good.
GoW 4.283 25 ...your interest in the writer is not
confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has
performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;but
his work is the least part of him.
ET4 5.49 22 Any the least and solitariest fact in our
natural history...has the worth of a power in the opportunity of
geologic periods.
ET5 5.82 14 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my
opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which
the public good is best attended to, and the least violence exercised
on the people, is that of England.
ET15 5.272 25 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new
millennium of beneficent power.
F 6.49 2 If in the least particular one could derange
the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the
palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
Bty 6.294 11 The cell of the bee is built at that
angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird
gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
Bty 6.300 6 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see,
after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume,
how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your
clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in
irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Bty 6.300 21 It was said of Hooke, the friend of
Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.
Elo1 7.74 7 There are all degrees of power [in
eloquence], and the least are interesting...
WD 7.168 10 The days] are of the least pretension and
of the greatest capacity of anything that exists.
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.
WD 7.183 20 ...the least acceleration of thought and
the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of
vast duration.
WD 7.183 21 ...the least acceleration of thought and
the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of
vast duration.
Boks 7.200 22 An inestimable trilogy of ancient
social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon
and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical
accuracy;...
Boks 7.210 5 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer
Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet, but without
the least thought of yielding one to the other.
Clbs 7.225 18 ...of all the cordials known to us, the
best, safest and most exhilarating, with the least harm, is society;...
Cour 7.267 17 It was told of the Prince of Conde that
there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never
disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command...without
any the least disturbance to his judgment or spirit.
PI 8.4 1 ...the most imaginative and abstracted
person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this
particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
QO 8.196 24 ...it is not rare to find great powers of
recitation, without the least original eloquence...
Insp 8.274 16 What metaphysician has undertaken to
enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration? That is least
within control which is best in them.
Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with
fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition
renders what you have done already useless.
Prch 10.223 17 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;...
Schr 10.284 9 ...the sure months are bringing [the
scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no
lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
LLNE 10.346 22 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt
that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism...
CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this
[Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the
genius of Mr. Alcott...
MMEm 10.432 4 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who
have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and
enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
Thor 10.484 25 The country knows not yet, or in the
least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].
LS 11.18 8 I appeal, brethren, to your individual
experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do
you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from
your thought?
EWI 11.116 17 We were told that the dress of the
negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West
Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest. There was not the least
disposition to gayety.
War 11.166 1 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances; the least enlargement of his ideas...
War 11.166 2 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...the least mitigation of his feelings in
respect to other men;...
FSLC 11.211 3 Europe, the least of all the
continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and
power of them all.
FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe.
Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts.
Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
SMC 11.352 23 ...only that state can live, in which
injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
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, though without committing the least excess, my
languor or heaviness returned.
Milt1 12.259 24 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.
MLit 12.330 9 The least inequality of mixture [of
Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other,
in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...
EurB 12.368 17 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and
Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was
not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and
selfishness...
least, adv. (25)
LE 1.178 21 Not the least instructive passage in
modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English
when he became their prisoner.
Fdsp 2.205 1 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to
those whose I effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I
am the most devoted.
Mrs1 3.129 9 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke
anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge
themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them,
at once a new class finds itself at the top...
SwM 4.111 16 This startling reappearance of
Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history.
ShP 4.209 23 So far from Shakspeare's being the least
known, he is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
ET8 5.140 2 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony,
that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
Bhr 6.171 17 Your manners are always under
examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or
denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
CbW 6.257 19 ...one would say that a good
understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one
erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be
damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social
rank.
Elo1 7.81 3 Does [any one] think that not possibly a
man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled
determination?--for example...if he is penurious, to squander money for
some purpose he now least thinks of...
Elo1 7.98 7 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to
these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address
nations.
Imtl 8.340 16 Lord Bacon said: Some of the
philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of
the soul...
Edc1 10.140 5 How we envy in later life the happy
youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the
precise element which frames and sets off their school and college
tasks, and teaches them, when least they think of it, the use and
meaning of these.
SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of
which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least
religious minds.
Schr 10.261 13 Literary men gladly acknowledge these
ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least
looked for.
LLNE 10.348 21 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into
stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every
character. It...could not but suggest vast possibilities of reform to
the coldest and least sanguine.
CSC 10.376 21 ...not [the Chardon Street
Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure
ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
EWI 11.140 11 Not the least affecting part of this
history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the
old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
Let 12.402 9 ...least of all should we think a
preternatural enlargement of the intellect a calamity.
Trag 12.416 5 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell,
to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient
admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with
the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Yet these wards are
not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their
inmates.
least, n. (90)
Nat 1.50 27 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are
unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly
detached from all relation to the observer...
Nat 1.61 22 Of that ineffable essence which we call
Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
MR 1.255 5 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of
ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
LT 1.268 27 The actors constitute that great army of
martyrs who, at least in America...compose the visible church of the
existing generation.
Con 1.323 8 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne
alone, among all the French gentry...made his personal integrity as
good at least as a regiment.
Con 1.324 7 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in
the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he
will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
Tran 1.332 10 One thing at least, [the materialist]
says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
Tran 1.340 18 ...the tendency to respect the
intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over
our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the
present day;...
Tran 1.341 27 ...it would not misbecome us to
inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and
do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not
accidental and personal...
Tran 1.351 18 If I cannot work, at least I need not
lie.
Fdsp 2.197 14 ...I see well that, for all his purple
cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least
a poor Greek like me.
Fdsp 2.208 22 I hate, where I looked for...at least a
manly resistance, to find a mush of concession.
Fdsp 2.211 13 There is at least this satisfaction in
crime...you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
Prd1 2.239 17 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out
your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt. So
at least shall you get an adequate deliverance.
Pt1 3.4 21 ...we are...children of the fire, made of
it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes,
when we know least about it.
Exp 3.48 11 There are moods in which we court
suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality...
Exp 3.49 18 We look to [death] with a grim
satisfaction, saying, There at least is reality that will not dodge us.
Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I
might...at least guide his horses in the chariot-race;...
Chr1 3.114 21 If we cannot attain at a bound to these
grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
Mrs1 3.124 2 In a good lord there must first be a
good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable
advantage of animal spirits.
Nat2 3.186 25 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air
and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that at least one may replace
the parent.
PPh 4.74 14 This hard-headed humorist
[Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover
of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
MoS 4.156 8 [The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun
the weakness of philosophizing beyond my depth.
MoS 4.167 22 [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 live within
compass...
NMW 4.256 3 It does not appear that [Napoleon]
listened at key-holes, or at least that he was caught at it.
ET2 5.26 6 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England
was proposed to me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction
and salutary influences of the sea.
ET4 5.65 13 [The English] are round, ruddy and
handsome; at least the whole bust is well formed...
ET12 5.208 24 A gentleman [in England] must
possess...an independent and public position, or at least the right of
assuming it.
ET13 5.219 24 Good churches are not built by bad men;
at least there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society.
ET14 5.244 17 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful
at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not
go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his
countrymen in that faculty; at least among the prose-writers.
ET16 5.289 19 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was
gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of
several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled
up in each man's skin,-seven or eight ancestors at least;...
F 6.24 23 If you believe in Fate to your harm,
believe it at least for your good.
Pow 6.65 13 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really
better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a
bold and manly cast.
Ctr 6.148 1 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If
I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be
consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human
race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Wsp 6.221 15 Law it is...which is smallest of the
least, and largest of the large;...
Wsp 6.238 19 The race of mankind have always offered
at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the
terror of its being taken away;...
Bty 6.297 1 ...the citizens of her native city of
Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline
de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
DL 7.114 5 ...we desire at least to put no stint or
limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
Boks 7.192 14 ...it happens in our experience that in
this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to
a prize.
Clbs 7.236 6 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with
humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous
enough to accept his thoughts.
PI 8.55 24 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it.
Comc 8.165 11 The Society in London which had
contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see
the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees of that day converted into
church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt.
John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of
the Indians...
QO 8.198 10 We once knew a man overjoyed at the
notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his
imagination! Who could have written it? Was it not...at the least,
Professor Maximilian?
Insp 8.292 15 A wise man goes to this game [of
conversation]...at least as curious to know what can be drawn from
himself as what can be drawn from [others].
Grts 8.320 7 ...people are as those with whom they
converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why
complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal
to his debt to his superiors?
Imtl 8.340 27 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont]
said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least
but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
SovE 10.186 8 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech
of scholars (at least it is attributed to many) that...of Nathaniel
Carpenter... 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).
Schr 10.274 21 [The thoughtful man] is not there to
defend himself, but to deliver his message;...if [his voice] is broken,
he can at least scream;...
LLNE 10.335 14 By a series of lectures largely and
fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a
beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in
that region at least had important results.
MMEm 10.431 26 What a timid, ungrateful creature!
Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on, in imagination at
least, to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...
Thor 10.460 3 In every part of Great Britain,
[Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the
Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on
any Roman ruins.
Thor 10.485 4 It seems...a kind of indignity to so
noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before
yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is. But he, at
least, is content.
LS 11.3 22 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was
decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...
LS 11.11 8 ...it is not a little singular that we
should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon
perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally
neglected all others,-particularly one other which had at least an
equal claim to our observance.
HDC 11.46 23 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's]
towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes...and,
what seemed of at least equal importance, to exercise the right of
expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
HDC 11.57 21 This war [with the Niantic Indians]
seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly,
Major [Simon] Willard did the least he could...
HDC 11.77 19 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly
the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
LVB 11.95 20 I will at least state to you [Van Buren]
this fact, and show you how plain and humane people...regard the policy
of the government...
EWI 11.116 8 At Grace Hill, [the day after
emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons
around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.
EWI 11.138 12 It is notorious that the political,
religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most
occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and
daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
War 11.173 4 We are affected...by the appearance of a
few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and
virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore
their name is a flourish of trumpets. They, at least, affect us as a
reality.
FSLC 11.180 24 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the
country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be
arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow...
FSLC 11.192 5 Those governors of places who bravely
refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised; and the
court did not dare to punish them, at least openly.
FSLN 11.222 11 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how
to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give
perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his
march or confounding his transitions.
JBS 11.278 25 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into
Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the
keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before.
Forty-seven years at least...
TPar 11.284 7 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands,
looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward,
not graceful at least;/...
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.
EdAd 11.385 4 At least as far as the purpose and
genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no
genius.
Wom 11.419 14 ...perhaps it is because these people
[advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities,
such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late
for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall
not suffer as we have suffered.
FRO2 11.486 1 ...as my friend, your presiding officer
[of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some
small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first
simple foundation of my belief...
CInt 12.131 20 ...it were a good rule to read some
lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or
task...
CL 12.135 9 The land, the care of land, seems to be
the calling of the people of this new country, of those, at least, who
have not some decided bias...
CW 12.175 12 How many poems have been written, or, at
least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
Bost 12.186 11 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to
be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and
customs...
Bost 12.202 1 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
Bost 12.210 25 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good
sons to good sires, or at least continued merit in the same blood.
Milt1 12.262 25 Among so many contrivances as the
world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure
a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of
elegance.
PPr 12.381 16 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the proposition...that the state shall provide at least
schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...
PPr 12.384 8 To atone for this departure from the
vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we
have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a
message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere
there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What
can have become of it? The least said is best.
leasts, n. (3)
SwM 4.114 4 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that
the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by
the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature
exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
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