Lesson to Liberty's

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

lesson, n. (80)

    Nat 1.31 21 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.39 23 ...the lesson of power, is taught in every event.
    Nat 1.58 7 The first and last lesson of religion is, The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    Nat 1.60 25 [The soul] accepts whatsoever befalls, as part of its lesson.
    Nat 1.61 20 The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
    AmS 1.113 27 If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce [the scholar's] ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all;...
    LE 1.170 8 Is it not the lesson of our experience that every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.178 6 Let [the scholar] not slur his lesson;...
    LE 1.178 16 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age...
    LE 1.184 26 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour...
    MN 1.221 19 I draw from nature the lesson of an intimate divinity.
    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.
    MR 1.246 6 Can we not learn the lesson of self-help?
    Hist 2.10 4 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself...
    SR 2.46 2 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
    Comp 2.113 6 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it. A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life...
    SL 2.135 5 The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    SL 2.135 18 The face of external nature teaches the same lesson.
    SL 2.137 10 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    SL 2.143 11 In our estimates let us take a lesson from kings.
    SL 2.160 11 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem.
    Hsm1 2.259 5 The lesson [many extraordinary young men] gave in their first aspirations is yet true;...
    Cir 2.307 27 How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
    Art1 2.357 13 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
    Exp 3.81 16 It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own [facts] from another's.
    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...
    SwM 4.108 18 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    MoS 4.185 5 The lesson of life is practically to generalize;...
    ShP 4.215 19 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    NMW 4.247 15 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;...
    GoW 4.290 1 It is the last lesson of modern science that the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    F 6.47 25 To offset the drag of temperament and race...learn this lesson...
    Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Ctr 6.150 14 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
    Bhr 6.170 10 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 6.174 4 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson was not quite lost;...
    Bhr 6.195 5 Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School...
    Wsp 6.219 4 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.240 14 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    CbW 6.253 13 ...the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    CbW 6.268 24 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth...
    Bty 6.290 14 The lesson taught by the study of Greek...art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Art2 7.41 12 The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works.
    Elo1 7.74 26 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
    DL 7.104 12 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race.
    DL 7.120 2 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...hastening into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson...
    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...
    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.
    DL 7.129 16 ...he will have learned the lesson of life who is skilful in the ethics of friendship.
    Farm 7.139 3 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Clbs 7.234 1 One lesson we learn early,--that...men are all of one pattern.
    Cour 7.276 20 He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
    Comc 8.166 28 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    PC 8.226 22 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it, and the hand obeys the same lesson.
    Insp 8.280 10 Sleep benefits...incidentally...by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
    Aris 10.57 27 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    PerF 10.85 27 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Chr2 10.115 1 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    Edc1 10.147 13 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain that the lesson is mastered...
    SovE 10.212 11 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power; but the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson...
    Plu 10.306 1 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    LLNE 10.336 27 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    LLNE 10.340 1 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public, not so much as the reading a lesson in Scripture...
    CSC 10.376 21 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
    SlHr 10.440 6 ...no lesson of his experience was lost on [Samuel Hoar]...
    Carl 10.491 7 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    HDC 11.50 3 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    War 11.163 5 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    FSLC 11.198 21 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make it a lesson for all ages.
    FSLN 11.232 15 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    FSLN 11.232 19 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery. We never get beyond our first lesson...
    SHC 11.430 24 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    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;...
    FRO2 11.489 9 It is the praise of our New Testament...that no better lesson has been taught or incarnated.
    FRep 11.525 18 The gracious lesson taught by science to this country is that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    CL 12.153 8 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? This was the lesson our starving poverty wanted.
    CL 12.163 11 [Conversation with Nature] is the lesson we were put hither to learn.
    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.
    CW 12.178 4 No lesson of chemistry is more impressive to me than this chemical fact that Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.
    MLit 12.317 4 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression. It is true, this is not the only nor the obvious lesson it teaches.

lessons, n. (56)

    Nat 1.36 7 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.36 15 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought...
    Nat 1.36 21 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.37 22 Debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Prd1 2.224 23 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Exp 3.56 3 I have had good lessons from pictures which I have since seen without emotion or remark.
    Exp 3.58 11 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    NER 3.258 2 The lessons of science should be experimental...
    PPh 4.44 10 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy...
    PPh 4.66 20 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages, who wishes to receive lessons from Socrates.
    PPh 4.67 21 ...I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
    SwM 4.101 22 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    SwM 4.128 16 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt...to keep the picture-alphabet through which our first lessons are prettily conveyed.
    SwM 4.142 24 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
    ShP 4.216 20 Solitude has austere lessons;...
    GoW 4.282 27 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects: the student, out of the lecture-room, still broods on the lessons;...
    ET11 5.194 10 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen], as if the noble were slow to receive the lessons of the times...
    F 6.34 23 Very odious...are the lessons of Fate.
    Ctr 6.143 25 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power...
    Ctr 6.161 14 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Ctr 6.161 22 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave.
    Ctr 6.162 10 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    Bhr 6.170 4 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...
    Bhr 6.172 8 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Ill 6.313 19 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Elo1 7.83 24 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    Elo1 7.96 25 [The sturdy countryman] has learned his lessons in a bitter school.
    Suc 7.299 14 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.301 12 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    SA 8.105 27 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
    Elo2 8.114 4 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Elo2 8.118 13 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric; and if the pupils got what they paid for, the lessons were cheap.
    Elo2 8.132 26 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Comc 8.173 25 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    QO 8.191 3 If an author give us...inspiring lessons...it is not so important to us whose they are.
    PC 8.205 3 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    Aris 10.40 20 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
    Chr2 10.101 23 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart.
    Chr2 10.111 4 When the highest conceptions, the lessons of religion, are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    Edc1 10.141 16 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    Edc1 10.142 20 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude, and learn its severe lessons.
    Edc1 10.154 15 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God;...
    SovE 10.202 18 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
    Prch 10.225 6 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    MMEm 10.406 13 Scorn trifles, lift your aims...these were the lessons which were urged [by Mary Moody Emerson] with vivacity...
    MMEm 10.414 11 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.
    AsSu 11.247 4 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    TPar 11.288 13 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    Shak1 11.450 17 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours. Later they find riper and manlier lessons in the plays.
    Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
    FRO1 11.477 9 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard.
    PLT 12.30 19 ...I educate not by lessons but by going about my business.
    CL 12.154 14 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons.
    CL 12.158 26 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
    MAng1 12.243 1 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
    EurB 12.369 7 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...

L'Estrange, Roger, n. (1)

    Plu 10.312 11 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.

let, v. (675)

    Nat 1.3 18 Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
    Nat 1.4 7 Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us.
    Nat 1.4 8 Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
    Nat 1.7 5 ...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
    Nat 1.21 23 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
    Nat 1.21 27 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Nat 1.50 10 Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture.
    Nat 1.59 8 Let us speak [nature] fair.
    Nat 1.63 15 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    Nat 1.66 22 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.
    AmS 1.82 14 Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on [the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
    AmS 1.84 20 Let us see [the scholar] in his school...
    AmS 1.90 15 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they - let us hold by this.
    AmS 1.91 1 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...and a fatal disservice is done.
    AmS 1.99 14 Let the grandeur of justice shine in [the great soul's] affairs.
    AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
    AmS 1.102 23 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun...
    AmS 1.102 27 ...in severe abstraction, let [the scholar] hold by himself;...
    AmS 1.104 17 Manlike let [the scholar] turn and face [fear].
    AmS 1.104 18 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and search its nature...
    AmS 1.111 22 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    DSA 1.122 3 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    DSA 1.127 9 Let this faith depart, and the very words it spake...become false...
    DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...
    DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles. Let him hush.
    DSA 1.140 26 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.
    DSA 1.144 4 In the soul then let the redemption be sought.
    DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you...to go alone;...
    DSA 1.146 16 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their timid aspirations find in you a friend;...
    DSA 1.146 17 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
    DSA 1.146 18 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their doubts know that you have doubted...
    DSA 1.147 9 ...let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
    DSA 1.148 10 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    DSA 1.149 21 Let us thank God that such things [virtuous acts] exist.
    DSA 1.149 23 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
    DSA 1.150 8 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    DSA 1.150 21 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore...
    LE 1.171 5 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last.
    LE 1.173 16 Let [the scholar] know that the world is his...
    LE 1.175 9 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and of society.
    LE 1.175 10 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and of society. Let him use both...
    LE 1.176 8 Come now, let us go and be dumb.
    LE 1.176 8 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths...
    LE 1.176 10 Let us live in corners...
    LE 1.178 6 Let [the scholar] not slur his lesson;...
    LE 1.178 7 Let [the scholar] not slur his lesson; let him learn it by heart.
    LE 1.178 7 Let [the scholar] endeavor exactly...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    LE 1.178 13 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    LE 1.180 27 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts...
    LE 1.181 2 [The scholar] is a revealer of things. Let him first learn the things.
    LE 1.181 3 Let [the scholar] not...omit the work to be done.
    LE 1.181 5 Let [the scholar] know that though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    LE 1.182 1 Let [the scholar] pay his tithe and serve the world as a true and noble man;...
    LE 1.182 27 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit. Let this faith then dictate all his action.
    LE 1.183 2 Snares and bribes abound to mislead [the student]; let him be true nevertheless.
    LE 1.183 24 ...let [the scholar] be cold and true...
    LE 1.183 27 Let [the scholar] open his breast to all honest inquiry...
    LE 1.184 12 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
    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;...
    LE 1.186 13 ...let us seek the shade, and find wisdom in neglect.
    MN 1.191 1 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    MN 1.192 10 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein.
    MN 1.192 26 Let there be worse cotton and better men.
    MN 1.197 24 Let us see [the method of nature], as nearly as we can...
    MN 1.199 4 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.204 10 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    MN 1.212 2 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world? Let him beware of proposing to himself any end.
    MN 1.219 26 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    MN 1.221 2 ...Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
    MN 1.224 2 Let those fear and those fawn who will.
    MR 1.227 6 Let it be granted that our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
    MR 1.229 9 Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society...and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.229 10 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.243 1 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax. Let him be a caenobite...
    MR 1.243 2 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn to eat his meals standing...
    MR 1.243 6 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] feel that genius is a hospitality...
    MR 1.244 23 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    MR 1.245 19 Let us learn the meaning of economy.
    MR 1.248 16 Let [a man] renounce everything which is not true to him...
    MR 1.253 2 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    MR 1.253 21 Let our affection flow out to our fellows;...
    MR 1.253 27 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...
    MR 1.254 3 Let us begin by habitual imparting.
    MR 1.254 4 Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share...
    MR 1.254 6 ...no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.
    MR 1.254 6 Let me feel that I am to be a lover.
    LT 1.260 6 Let us examine the pretensions of the attacking and defending parties.
    LT 1.260 23 Let [Conservatism's] side be fairly stated.
    LT 1.263 18 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.264 25 Let us paint the painters.
    LT 1.265 1 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let the sun paint the people.
    LT 1.265 2 Let us paint the agitator...
    LT 1.265 8 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;-let us examine how well she knows.
    LT 1.267 24 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days. Let us not be so deceived.
    LT 1.267 25 Let us unmask the king as he passes.
    LT 1.267 26 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    LT 1.268 1 Let us not see the foundations of nations...with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.279 10 With so much awe, with so much fear let [the sanctuary of the heart] be respected.
    LT 1.280 3 ...if I am just, then is there no slavery, let the laws say what they will.
    LT 1.281 20 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    LT 1.290 12 For that reality let us stand; that let us serve, and for that speak.
    LT 1.290 22 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
    Tran 1.334 25 ...let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
    Tran 1.334 27 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    Tran 1.346 11 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should never let his brother go...
    Tran 1.346 22 ...when deed, word, or letter comes not, [our friends] let us go.
    Tran 1.349 7 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the article, let it have been at first never so subtle and ethereal, is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    Tran 1.352 22 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height;...
    Tran 1.357 19 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge...
    Tran 1.357 23 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius then most when his impulse is wildest;...
    YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high...you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    YA 1.380 27 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    YA 1.386 7 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    YA 1.386 21 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society,-only let us have the real instead of the titular.
    YA 1.386 21 Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best.
    YA 1.386 24 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed...and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    YA 1.394 27 ...we only say, Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Hist 2.7 27 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Hist 2.8 27 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case; if not, let them forever be silent.
    Hist 2.36 19 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find no men to act on...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    Hist 2.38 12 Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    SR 2.45 4 The soul always hears an admonition in such [original] lines, let the subject be what it may.
    SR 2.58 14 ...let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    SR 2.60 10 Let the words [conformity, consistency] be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
    SR 2.60 12 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    SR 2.60 13 Let us never bow and apologize more.
    SR 2.60 19 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    SR 2.61 23 Let a man then know his worth...
    SR 2.61 24 Let [a man] not peep or steal...
    SR 2.68 6 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go;...
    SR 2.71 5 ...let us not rove;...
    SR 2.71 5 ...let us sit at home with the cause.
    SR 2.71 6 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    SR 2.71 10 Let our simplicity judge [the invaders]...
    SR 2.71 23 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary! So let us always sit.
    SR 2.72 16 ...let us at least resist our temptations;...
    SR 2.72 17 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden...
    SR 2.74 24 If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
    SR 2.76 17 Let a Stoic open the resources of man...
    SR 2.79 5 [Men] say...Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    SR 2.80 15 Let [unbalanced minds] chirp awhile and call [the light] their own.
    Comp 2.125 18 We cannot let our angels go.
    SL 2.132 7 Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him...
    SL 2.136 12 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them.
    SL 2.137 10 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    SL 2.142 2 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out all the length of all the reins;...
    SL 2.142 14 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    SL 2.142 17 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate...
    SL 2.143 11 In our estimates let us take a lesson from kings.
    SL 2.143 19 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature...
    SL 2.143 23 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind...
    SL 2.144 27 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight...
    SL 2.151 11 Let [the scholar] be great, and love shall follow him.
    SL 2.160 12 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem. Let us acquiesce.
    SL 2.160 12 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
    SL 2.160 14 Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world.
    SL 2.160 15 Let us lie low in the Lord's power...
    SL 2.160 21 Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see him, in thee its lowest organ.
    SL 2.164 1 Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so.
    SL 2.164 5 Let us seek one peace by fidelity.
    SL 2.164 5 Let me heed my duties.
    SL 2.164 25 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    SL 2.165 25 Let a man believe in God...
    SL 2.165 27 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    Lov1 2.171 11 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
    Lov1 2.178 5 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Fdsp 2.193 24 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Fdsp 2.200 25 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards...
    Fdsp 2.200 26 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
    Fdsp 2.207 5 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men, but let all three of you come together and you shall not have one new and hearty word.
    Fdsp 2.208 15 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Fdsp 2.208 18 Let [my friend] not cease an instant to be himself.
    Fdsp 2.209 1 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...
    Fdsp 2.209 9 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes. Let him not intermeddle with this.
    Fdsp 2.209 19 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room; let them mount and expand.
    Fdsp 2.209 27 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.
    Fdsp 2.210 8 Let [my friend] be to me a spirit.
    Fdsp 2.210 17 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard.
    Fdsp 2.210 24 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy...
    Fdsp 2.211 23 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.
    Fdsp 2.211 24 Let us be silent,--so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
    Fdsp 2.211 26 Let us not interfere.
    Fdsp 2.214 4 Let us feel if we will the absolute insulation of man.
    Fdsp 2.214 12 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts. Let us drop this idolatry. Let us give over this mendicancy.
    Fdsp 2.214 13 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell...
    Fdsp 2.216 14 Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
    Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man] have accurate perceptions.
    Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man], if he have hands, handle;...
    Prd1 2.226 26 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...
    Prd1 2.227 27 Let a man keep the law,--any law,--and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
    Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Prd1 2.230 8 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life. Let them stand on their feet...
    Prd1 2.230 9 Let us know where to find [the figures in this picture of life].
    Prd1 2.230 10 Let [the figures in this picture of life] discriminate between what they remember and what they dreamed...
    Prd1 2.234 2 Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
    Prd1 2.234 5 Let [a man] make the night night, and the day day.
    Prd1 2.234 6 Let [a man] control the habit of expense.
    Prd1 2.234 7 Let [a man] see that as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Prd1 2.235 14 Let [a man] learn a prudence of a higher strain.
    Prd1 2.235 15 Let [a man] learn that every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    Prd1 2.235 18 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    Prd1 2.235 21 Let [a man] practise the minor virtues.
    Prd1 2.235 23 ...let [a man] not make his fellow-creatures wait.
    Prd1 2.235 25 Let [a man's words] be words of fate.
    Prd1 2.236 3 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Prd1 2.237 14 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension...
    Prd1 2.240 1 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    Prd1 2.240 11 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
    Hsm1 2.246 8 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.249 20 Let [a man] hear in season that he is born into the state of war...
    Hsm1 2.249 25 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    Hsm1 2.257 9 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    Hsm1 2.259 16 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way...
    Hsm1 2.261 7 Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money.
    Hsm1 2.262 20 Let [a man] quit too much association...
    Hsm1 2.262 20 ...let [a man] go home much...
    Hsm1 2.263 16 ...Let them rave:/ Thou art quiet in thy grave./
    OS 2.271 6 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
    OS 2.271 15 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us;...
    OS 2.279 17 We know truth when we see it, let sceptic and scoffer say what they choose.
    OS 2.286 26 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it, let him brave it out how he will.
    OS 2.287 26 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
    OS 2.293 16 You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
    OS 2.294 15 Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart;...
    Cir 2.302 7 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea; they will disappear.
    Cir 2.310 20 ...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of conversation] whilst it glows on our walls.
    Cir 2.313 20 Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Cir 2.316 17 Let me live onward;...
    Cir 2.318 9 ...let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    Cir 2.319 20 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Cir 2.319 21 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] be lovers;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Cir 2.319 21 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...
    Int 2.331 18 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite...in one direction.
    Int 2.337 17 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Int 2.343 9 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
    Int 2.343 15 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new. Frankly let him accept it all.
    Int 2.343 27 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won...
    Int 2.345 8 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try.
    Int 2.345 14 ...let us end these didactics.
    Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./
    Art1 2.349 9 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Pt1 3.13 5 ...let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Pt1 3.32 14 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
    Exp 3.60 13 Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
    Exp 3.60 15 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, to-day.
    Exp 3.60 16 Let us treat the men and women well;...
    Exp 3.80 3 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Exp 3.83 13 Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I find a private fruit sufficient.
    Chr1 3.94 27 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains.
    Chr1 3.99 24 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me apprehend, if it were only his resistance;...
    Chr1 3.100 9 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...whom [society] cannot let pass in silence...he helps;...
    Chr1 3.100 15 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
    Chr1 3.114 21 If we cannot attain at a bound to these grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
    Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion, let who will be unfashionable.
    Mrs1 3.136 26 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    Mrs1 3.137 1 Let us not be too much acquainted.
    Mrs1 3.137 10 Let us sit apart as the gods...
    Mrs1 3.138 6 Let us leave hurry to slaves.
    Mrs1 3.145 2 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    Mrs1 3.145 3 Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.
    Mrs1 3.149 26 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the sceptre at the door of the house.
    Mrs1 3.150 11 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    Gts 3.160 24 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Gts 3.165 2 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe. Let him give kingdoms of flower-leaves indifferently.
    Gts 3.165 4 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them.
    Nat2 3.179 9 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Nat2 3.182 6 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs.
    Nat2 3.183 8 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks...
    Nat2 3.186 16 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living...
    Nat2 3.195 25 Let the victory fall where it will, we are on that side.
    Pol1 3.220 5 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    NR 3.228 27 Let us go for universals;...
    NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns, which we can well afford to let pass,...
    NR 3.240 9 As long as any man exists, there is some need of him; let him fight for his own.
    NR 3.240 18 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name? Let it be a new way of living.
    NR 3.244 16 If we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals, let us see the parts wisely...
    NER 3.252 21 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine; let us scotch these ever-rolling wheels!
    NER 3.255 12 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.
    NER 3.262 10 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.
    NER 3.266 3 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.266 4 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.272 4 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat. Let those admire who will.
    NER 3.272 20 In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    NER 3.273 14 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    NER 3.281 1 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    NER 3.284 19 ...let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    UGM 4.5 10 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.5 25 Let us have the quality pure.
    UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
    UGM 4.20 15 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...
    UGM 4.20 19 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    UGM 4.27 12 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    UGM 4.31 12 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    PPh 4.56 21 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PPh 4.68 22 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    PPh 4.78 14 Let us not seem to treat with flippancy [Plato's] venerable name.
    PNR 4.89 17 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. Let such be free of the city and above the law.
    PNR 4.89 18 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. ... We confide them to themselves; let them do with us as they will.
    PNR 4.89 19 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    SwM 4.122 7 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again...
    SwM 4.131 16 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass...
    MoS 4.158 26 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    MoS 4.159 7 Let us go abroad;...
    MoS 4.159 8 ...let us mix in affairs;...
    MoS 4.159 8 ...let us learn and get and have and climb.
    MoS 4.159 12 Let us have a robust, manly life;...
    MoS 4.159 13 ...let us know what we know, for certain;...
    MoS 4.159 14 ...what we have, let it be solid and seasonable and our own.
    MoS 4.159 16 Let us have to do with real men and women...
    MoS 4.167 25 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.
    MoS 4.176 19 [The power of moods] is the second negation; and I shall let it pass for what it will.
    MoS 4.186 4 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting;...
    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;...
    ShP 4.209 20 Let Timon...answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ShP 4.209 20 ...let Warwick...answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ShP 4.209 21 ...let Antonio the merchant answer for [Shakespeare's] great heart.
    ShP 4.214 4 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    ShP 4.214 8 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last; and now let the world of figures sit for their portraits.
    NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let him carry the battery.
    GoW 4.265 19 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    GoW 4.279 21 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
    ET1 5.16 9 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET3 5.43 3 Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest!
    ET5 5.94 24 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    ET5 5.98 22 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
    ET6 5.102 23 ...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively and with spirit.
    ET6 5.105 23 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye.
    ET6 5.106 18 ...let who will fail, England will not.
    ET7 5.117 19 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth.
    ET7 5.124 25 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...
    ET7 5.125 1 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me never be bothered more with this proven lie.
    ET10 5.157 4 The headlong bias to utility [in England] will let no talent lie in a napkin...
    ET11 5.174 10 English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
    ET11 5.175 1 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
    ET11 5.187 24 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    ET11 5.192 17 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    ET11 5.193 21 [English noblemen] will not let [their houses], for pride's sake...
    ET13 5.223 24 If you let [the Anglican Church] alone, it will let you alone.
    ET14 5.244 18 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.258 9 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET14 5.258 10 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET17 5.298 3 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
    ET18 5.303 12 In the island [England], they never let out all the length of all the reins...
    ET19 5.314 1 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and generous who are born in the soil. So be it! so let it be!
    F 6.5 3 ...let us honestly state the facts.
    F 6.8 10 Let us not deny [the ferocity of nature] up and down.
    F 6.11 1 Let [a man] value his hands and feet...
    F 6.24 7 Rude and invincible except by themselves are the elements. So let man be.
    F 6.24 8 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    F 6.24 10 Let [man] hold his purpose as with the tug of gravitation.
    F 6.33 18 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy...
    F 6.33 24 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power...was God; that it must be availed of, and not by any means let off and wasted.
    F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...
    F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.
    F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...
    F 6.49 15 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity...
    Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.63 1 ...let these rough riders...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Pow 6.81 19 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it.
    Pow 6.81 21 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it. Let machine confront machine, and see how they come out.
    Wth 6.113 18 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Wth 6.113 22 Let the realist not mind appearances.
    Wth 6.113 22 Let [the realist] delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life.
    Wth 6.115 24 If a man own land, the land owns him. Now let him leave home, if he dare.
    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.133 23 Let us rather be insulted, whilst we are insultable.
    Ctr 6.140 20 Let us make our education brave and preventive.
    Ctr 6.146 2 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
    Ctr 6.146 15 ...let us not be pedantic, but allow to travel its full effect.
    Ctr 6.148 9 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    Ctr 6.154 11 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    Ctr 6.154 14 Let us learn to live coarsely...
    Ctr 6.162 16 ...let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempts.
    Ctr 6.164 13 Let me say here that culture cannot begin too early.
    Ctr 6.166 1 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Bhr 6.171 21 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way.
    Bhr 6.192 21 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    Wsp 6.202 7 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Wsp 6.205 15 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Wsp 6.206 13 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./
    Wsp 6.210 9 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.213 14 ...we are not to do, but to let do;...
    Wsp 6.215 16 Let us replace sentimentalism by realism...
    Wsp 6.221 20 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.221 22 Let me show [the reader] that the dice are loaded;...
    Wsp 6.224 25 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield. Let him accuse none, let injure him none.
    Wsp 6.229 1 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may...
    Wsp 6.241 4 Let us have nothing now which is not its own evidence.
    Wsp 6.241 7 Let us not be pestered with assertions and half-truths...
    CbW 6.248 1 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements. Let us infer his ends from this pomp of means.
    CbW 6.249 22 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    CbW 6.260 18 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like the rest...
    CbW 6.264 4 Let us engage our companions not to spare us.
    CbW 6.270 14 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    CbW 6.270 24 How to live with unfit companions?...experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence, namely...to...let their madness spend itself unopposed.
    CbW 6.275 11 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    Bty 6.293 7 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Bty 6.295 10 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    SS 7.14 3 Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news...
    SS 7.15 24 ...let us not be the victims of words.
    Civ 7.21 26 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
    Civ 7.21 27 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
    Civ 7.30 15 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
    Civ 7.30 16 Let us not lie and steal.
    Art2 7.40 20 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
    Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
    Art2 7.48 5 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    Elo1 7.83 25 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness,--Let us praise the Lord,--carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    Elo1 7.89 21 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places. What will he say next? Let this man speak, and this man only.
    Elo1 7.97 6 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action;...
    Elo1 7.97 10 Let [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity.
    DL 7.108 26 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.
    DL 7.108 27 Let us go to the sitting-room...
    DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
    DL 7.109 27 Let [a man] never buy anything else than what he wants...
    DL 7.117 12 Let us understand...that a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    DL 7.118 19 Let a man...say, My house is here in the county, for the culture of the county;...
    DL 7.119 1 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    DL 7.119 7 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    DL 7.119 9 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.
    DL 7.127 1 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    DL 7.129 25 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
    DL 7.130 2 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum. Rather let the noble practice of the Greeks find place in our society...
    DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
    DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation backward.
    DL 7.133 1 Let the man stand on his feet.
    DL 7.133 1 Let religion cease to be occasional;...
    DL 7.133 4 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.
    Farm 7.144 6 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    WD 7.166 4 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth. Let us try another gauge.
    WD 7.178 19 Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
    WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity. Now let poets sing! now let arts unfold!
    WD 7.180 26 Cannot we let the morning be?
    Boks 7.191 4 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled...with heroes and demigods standing around us, who will not let us sleep.
    Boks 7.191 20 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of. If not, he has no right to our time. Let him go and find himself answered there.
    Boks 7.194 9 Let [each student] read what is proper to him...
    Boks 7.194 21 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.194 22 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.210 18 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused;...
    Boks 7.220 20 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
    Clbs 7.232 9 Let [conversation] keep the ground...
    Clbs 7.232 9 ...let [conversation] feel the connection with the battery.
    Clbs 7.245 16 [A club] requires people...who do and let do and let be...
    Clbs 7.245 17 [A club] requires people...who do and let do and let be...
    Cour 7.257 2 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    Cour 7.261 23 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war. I have not, he said, any proper courage, but I shall never let any one find it out.
    Cour 7.270 26 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Cour 7.275 10 Let us say then frankly that the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    Suc 7.285 16 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua lies.
    Suc 7.289 2 I have heard that Nelson used to say, Never mind the justice or the impudence, only let me succeed.
    Suc 7.305 9 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.
    OA 7.332 15 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    PI 8.37 18 ...let others be distracted with cares, [the poet] is exempt.
    PI 8.52 22 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme.
    PI 8.66 6 The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head...
    PI 8.72 25 Let the poet, of all men, stop with his inspiration.
    SA 8.96 9 Let Nature bear the expense.
    SA 8.96 10 Let our eyes not look away, but meet.
    SA 8.96 11 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
    Elo2 8.111 18 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.116 2 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something...or let him be silent.
    Elo2 8.119 21 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the length and breadth of the power.
    PPo 8.248 18 Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine.
    Insp 8.272 15 Every youth should know the way to prophecy as surely as the miller understands how to let on the water...
    Insp 8.272 21 Thoughts let us into realities.
    Grts 8.308 27 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Grts 8.309 26 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. Very well,-I let it lie, thinking it may pass away...
    Grts 8.310 27 Let the student mind his own charge;...
    Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
    Grts 8.311 19 Let us make [our day-labor] an honest sweat.
    Grts 8.311 19 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    Grts 8.317 3 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Imtl 8.330 27 The healthy state of mind is the love of life. What is so good, let it endure.
    Imtl 8.339 21 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet, and let us digest for its inhabitants what we could of the wisdom of this.
    Imtl 8.347 5 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Imtl 8.349 15 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Dem1 10.9 4 We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region of Cause...
    Dem1 10.14 12 Let me add one more example of the same good sense...
    Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.42 24 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper...
    Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.45 10 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate.
    Aris 10.47 16 Let a man's social aims be proportioned to his means and power.
    Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.
    Aris 10.57 10 Let [a true aristocrat] not divide his homage...
    Aris 10.63 15 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...
    Chr2 10.97 9 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Chr2 10.97 10 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Chr2 10.97 11 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    Chr2 10.97 13 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me; deal THOU with me; let me know it is thy will, and I ask no more.
    Chr2 10.107 15 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only, let us hope, that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    Chr2 10.120 17 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Edc1 10.136 5 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
    Edc1 10.136 20 Let [the young man] be led up with a long-sighted forbearance...
    Edc1 10.136 21 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    Edc1 10.137 3 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see what is this new creation...
    Edc1 10.138 1 Cannot we let people be themselves...
    Edc1 10.138 8 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Edc1 10.139 3 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him...
    Edc1 10.142 9 Let [the solitary man] study the art of solitude...
    Edc1 10.143 5 Let [the youth] read Tom Brown at Rugby...
    Edc1 10.144 8 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...
    Edc1 10.145 15 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...
    Edc1 10.157 24 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it, and let all the children clap their hands.
    SovE 10.194 19 Let [a man] find his superiority in not wishing superiority;...
    SovE 10.195 1 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    SovE 10.201 12 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    SovE 10.202 25 What anthropomorphists we are in this, that we cannot let moral distinctions be, but must mould them into human shape!
    Prch 10.224 16 Let [the torpid heart] speak, and all these rebels will fly to their loyalty.
    Prch 10.230 12 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.
    Prch 10.230 22 Let [the young preacher] value his talent as a door into Nature.
    Prch 10.230 23 Let [the young preacher] see his performances only as limitations.
    Prch 10.230 24 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
    Prch 10.233 24 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
    Prch 10.236 4 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...
    Prch 10.236 16 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...
    MoL 10.241 12 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    MoL 10.249 13 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...
    MoL 10.250 22 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed...
    Schr 10.261 21 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    Schr 10.268 19 Let us hear no more of the practical men...
    Schr 10.271 4 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    Schr 10.274 11 Let [men of thought] decline henceforward foreign methods and foreign courages.
    Schr 10.274 13 Let [men of thought] do that which they can do.
    Schr 10.274 13 Let [men of thought] fight by their strength, not by their weakness.
    Schr 10.281 20 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    Schr 10.286 1 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom, and will not let an offender go;...
    Schr 10.286 25 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls. Let us keep only the heavy-armed.
    Schr 10.286 25 Let those come [to scholarship] who cannot but come...
    Schr 10.287 7 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares, untuning company. Well, let him meet them.
    Plu 10.306 24 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
    LLNE 10.331 19 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    LLNE 10.334 8 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    LLNE 10.353 11 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just...
    LLNE 10.355 27 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...
    LLNE 10.366 15 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    LLNE 10.367 16 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children will make if you will let them.
    EzRy 10.388 7 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors. If you fail,-Ichabod, the glory is departed. Let us pray.
    MMEm 10.415 3 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let my lights go out...
    MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.
    MMEm 10.420 3 'T is only now that I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not let--pay my hotel-bill.
    MMEm 10.428 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she thinking it a pity to let it lie idle, wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    SlHr 10.446 23 ...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in eternal sunshine.
    HDC 11.35 4 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...
    HDC 11.85 9 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    HDC 11.86 18 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God, and loved man, and never let go the hope of immortality.
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.100 20 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you! But I have thought better: let him not go.
    EWI 11.100 24 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded. ... Let us withhold every reproachful...remark.
    EWI 11.118 8 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.124 9 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder...
    EWI 11.131 16 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    EWI 11.132 6 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.132 23 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first; then, let order be taken to indemnify all such as have been incarcerated.
    EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
    EWI 11.134 24 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.145 15 ...now let [the black race] emerge, clothed and in their own form.
    War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;...
    War 11.171 10 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him and let him now be clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
    FSLC 11.186 15 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.207 25 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's. Let us hear any project with candor and respect.
    FSLC 11.210 5 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery]...
    FSLC 11.212 9 Let the attitude of the states be firm.
    FSLC 11.212 10 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends.
    FSLC 11.213 14 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
    FSLC 11.213 15 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error. In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.
    FSLC 11.213 16 Here let there be no confusion in our ideas.
    FSLC 11.213 17 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal...
    FSLC 11.213 18 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or Patriotism.
    FSLC 11.213 19 Let us know that not by the public, but by ourselves, our safety must be bought.
    FSLN 11.232 9 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science...
    FSLN 11.232 10 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
    FSLN 11.241 11 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong.
    FSLN 11.241 14 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong. They are organically ours. Let them be loyal to their own.
    AsSu 11.251 24 Let [Charles Sumner] hear that every man of worth in New England loves his virtues;...
    AKan 11.258 5 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...
    AKan 11.259 3 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so? Let Mr. Underwood of Virginia answer.
    AKan 11.261 5 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...
    AKan 11.261 23 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...
    JBB 11.272 17 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBS 11.276 15 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
    JBS 11.277 14 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let [John Brown] speak for himself.
    ACiv 11.307 16 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be to let it in...
    EPro 11.326 3 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world...
    HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SMC 11.356 9 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    SMC 11.370 11 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...
    SMC 11.375 13 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly, speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
    EdAd 11.390 18 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by dodging each difficult question...
    EdAd 11.393 18 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right, and let these principles entreat for us.
    Wom 11.424 2 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
    Wom 11.424 4 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...
    Wom 11.424 6 ...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
    Wom 11.424 7 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;...
    Wom 11.424 27 ...let us deal with [new opinions] greatly;...
    Wom 11.425 1 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road...
    Wom 11.425 11 Let us have the true woman, the adorner...
    Shak1 11.448 2 We are all content to let Shakspeare speak for himself.
    FRO2 11.488 27 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints; but let it be by pure sympathy...
    FRO2 11.489 9 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome...
    CPL 11.508 9 Let me add then, read proudly;...
    FRep 11.535 11 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.
    FRep 11.535 12 Here let there be what the earth waits for,-exalted manhood.
    FRep 11.539 9 Let the good citizen perform the duties put on him here and now.
    FRep 11.540 1 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    FRep 11.540 3 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    FRep 11.541 23 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.
    PLT 12.11 7 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect]...
    PLT 12.26 26 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you have let in on them a freezing wind.
    PLT 12.30 4 Let me whisper a secret; nobody ever forgives any admiration in you of them...
    II 12.74 16 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    II 12.79 4 The whole ethics of thought...is a sort of religious office. If there is inspiration let there be only that.
    II 12.80 8 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.
    Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go.
    CInt 12.123 10 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CL 12.135 11 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.
    CL 12.137 8 Let me remind you what this walker [Linnaeus] found in his walks.
    CL 12.159 13 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    CW 12.174 11 If you can add to the garden a noble luxury, let it be an arboretum.
    Bost 12.182 7 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Bost 12.182 9 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    Bost 12.189 23 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
    Bost 12.210 19 Let us shame the fathers, by superior virtue in the sons.
    Bost 12.211 11 ...here let [Boston] stand forever, on the man-bearing granite of the North!
    Bost 12.211 12 Let [Boston] stand fast by herself!
    Bost 12.211 15 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
    MAng1 12.226 15 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us; let us ride faster lest it fall whilst we are upon it.
    MAng1 12.233 11 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    MAng1 12.234 13 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    ACri 12.287 26 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!
    ACri 12.297 26 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    MLit 12.309 12 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
    MLit 12.327 20 Let [Goethe] have the praise of the love of truth.
    MLit 12.328 15 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    MLit 12.329 16 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of good fortune. [Men] do so daily.
    MLit 12.329 18 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    MLit 12.332 20 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins. Let him pass.
    WSL 12.339 5 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    WSL 12.342 14 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.
    WSL 12.342 20 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.
    Pray 12.350 22 Let us not have the prayers of one sect...
    Pray 12.353 17 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me;...
    Pray 12.353 18 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    Pray 12.355 24 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    AgMs 12.360 23 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it. Let us see.
    EurB 12.371 26 ...let us not quarrel with our benefactors.
    PPr 12.382 10 Let no man think himself absolved because he does a generous action...
    PPr 12.382 12 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds his property that a benefit goes from it to all.
    PPr 12.382 20 ...let [a man's speech] always side with the race...
    PPr 12.382 22 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing...
    PPr 12.388 17 Let who will be the dupe of trifles, [Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.
    Let 12.392 18 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
    Let 12.395 15 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life,-which is better accepted than calculated? Perhaps so; but let us not be too curiously good.
    Let 12.395 18 We do a great many selfish things every day; among them all let us do one thing of enlightened selfishness.
    Let 12.396 13 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.
    Let 12.400 3 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same.
    Let 12.400 4 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart...
    Let 12.400 8 ...in good earnest, and in all love, let [a man] be that which he is;...
    Let 12.400 11 ...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.
    Trag 12.406 1 We cannot afford to let go any advantages.
    Trag 12.413 21 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.
    Trag 12.414 20 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.

lethargy, n. (2)

    Exp 3.45 11 ...we cannot shake off the lethargy now at noonday.
    ALin 11.332 5 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by...lethargy...

lethe, n. (2)

    Exp 3.45 9 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.47 11 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find...deluges of lethe...

Lethe River, Mammoth Cave, (1)

    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;...

Lethe River, n. [Lethe,] (2)

    SR 2.49 14 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
    Mem 12.107 4 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man...

lets, v. (12)

    Comp 2.107 17 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who...lets no offence go unchastised.
    OS 2.286 6 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves...
    Cir 2.308 19 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Exp 3.49 20 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    NER 3.271 7 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.
    SwM 4.124 19 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it...lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind.
    ShP 4.202 12 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ET18 5.306 6 [The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
    OA 7.316 22 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect; and this lets us into the secret that the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.
    PI 8.38 9 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;--and lets [mortal men], by his songs, into some of the realities.
    PerF 10.71 12 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues; lets it lie in sun and rain...
    War 11.162 10 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...

letter, n. (43)

    LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    LT 1.288 8 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
    Tran 1.337 11 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    Tran 1.346 21 ...when deed, word, or letter comes not, [our friends] let us go.
    Fdsp 2.192 2 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Fdsp 2.198 11 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Fdsp 2.211 2 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
    Fdsp 2.211 3 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
    NER 3.278 24 ...each man's innocence and his real liking of his neighbor have kept [the proposition of depravity] a dead letter.
    ShP 4.207 21 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ET1 5.6 16 I have a private letter from [Greenough]...
    ET1 5.14 24 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock.
    ET5 5.94 23 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...
    ET11 5.195 6 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET16 5.284 15 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.
    ET17 5.295 4 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    ET19 5.309 16 Mr. Dickens's letter of apology for his absence [from the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] was read.
    Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    SS 7.4 7 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SS 7.5 18 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Civ 7.28 10 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.
    Civ 7.28 13 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    OA 7.333 1 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy] Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.
    Comc 8.168 8 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy.
    Insp 8.281 20 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Imtl 8.326 27 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Edc1 10.147 20 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read...
    Plu 10.298 18 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    LVB 11.95 14 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
    FSLC 11.192 6 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLC 11.204 7 [Webster] adheres to the letter.
    FSLN 11.228 24 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
    AsSu 11.250 19 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    SMC 11.376 14 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott], given in the following letter by one of his soldiers...
    CPL 11.500 20 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
    MAng1 12.242 11 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
    Milt1 12.257 14 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    Milt1 12.258 23 In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    PD 12.307 2 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    MLit 12.325 20 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...
    Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...

Letter to his Wife Timoxena (1)

    Plu 10.314 10 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

Letter to Ritter [Alexander (1)

    Humb 11.456 7 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity. Humboldt, Letter to Ritter.

Letter to Samuel Hartlib [ (1)

    Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.

lettered, adj. (4)

    Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    SA 8.103 20 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects, with...his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Aris 10.64 11 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    Schr 10.261 7 ...the society of lettered men is a university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...

letter-paper, n. (2)

    MR 1.237 8 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...letter-paper, by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    SMC 11.360 23 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps...

Letters [Cicero], n. (1)

    MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...

Letters, Life and [Barthold (1)

    Boks 7.202 1 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;...

Letters [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    Boks 7.206 3 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read...

letters, n. (107)

    AmS 1.81 11 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters...
    AmS 1.81 12 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more.
    AmS 1.115 21 The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity...
    DSA 1.127 12 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful. Then falls...art, letters, life.
    LE 1.164 6 Say to the man of letters that he cannot paint a Transfiguration... and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    LE 1.170 27 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...and letters...
    LE 1.176 23 Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is the lust of display...
    YA 1.394 8 ...in England...no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek... letters...
    Hist 2.41 1 ...the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.
    SL 2.136 25 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    SL 2.139 27 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences...the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now...
    SL 2.159 4 What [a man] is engraves itself...on his fortunes, in letters of light.
    SL 2.164 11 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the stars were letters...
    Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer...
    Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Chr1 3.92 9 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the State, or letters;...
    Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    NR 3.227 22 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...take liberties with private letters...
    NMW 4.238 27 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...
    NMW 4.247 22 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in letters...
    NMW 4.250 24 ...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted;...
    NMW 4.255 15 ...[Napoleon]...opened letters...
    GoW 4.269 16 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.
    GoW 4.287 27 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties...and the like.
    ET1 5.9 21 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier, by what chance converted to letters;...
    ET1 5.19 1 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals, especially one man of letters...whom London had well served.
    ET6 5.115 5 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing, and are quite superior to letters and science.
    ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET8 5.143 3 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.
    ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET11 5.189 26 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the letters and essays of Sir Philip Sidney;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET14 5.236 18 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...
    ET14 5.251 9 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...
    ET14 5.252 10 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...
    ET17 5.292 2 A man of sense and of letters...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    ET17 5.292 15 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met persons eminent in society and in letters.
    ET18 5.303 5 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science.
    ET18 5.306 2 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    F 6.31 5 [Men] are under one dominion...in letters...
    Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters.
    Bhr 6.194 19 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    CbW 6.268 22 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin; have letters from Bremen;...
    Civ 7.27 25 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...
    Civ 7.34 1 ...if there be...a country...where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Elo1 7.100 6 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or letters, or morals, as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    DL 7.109 24 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only letters at the postoffice...
    DL 7.121 23 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans, as described to us in the letters of the younger Pliny.
    WD 7.182 15 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    Boks 7.219 15 [The communications of the sacred books] are not to be held by letters printed on a page...
    Clbs 7.231 9 The lover of letters loves power too.
    Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.244 23 The man of thought, the man of letters...whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.246 3 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.
    Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to letters, to manners...
    OA 7.326 18 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who... introduce him where he has no letters...
    PI 8.65 17 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles!
    SA 8.94 2 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy...
    Elo2 8.123 25 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    Res 8.150 12 In England men of letters drink wine;...
    PC 8.207 3 We meet to-day under happy omens...to the commonwealth of letters...
    PC 8.234 12 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    PPo 8.263 3 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Insp 8.277 20 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down according to the right understanding of the letters, but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Insp 8.281 14 The experience of writing letters is one of the keys to the modus of inspiration.
    Grts 8.302 14 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art.
    SovE 10.204 1 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation...
    MoL 10.241 8 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers;...
    MoL 10.241 15 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...
    MoL 10.251 20 ...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    Schr 10.261 18 ...in coming among strange faces we find that the love of letters makes us friends...
    Plu 10.294 14 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    LLNE 10.341 20 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist, not at all a man of letters...
    LLNE 10.343 11 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.
    LLNE 10.364 23 Letters were always flying not only from house to house [at Brook Farm], but from room to room.
    EzRy 10.389 21 At the time when Jack Downing's letters were in every paper, [Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    MMEm 10.401 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it...give much piquancy to her letters in after years.
    MMEm 10.401 25 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
    HDC 11.68 6 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    FSLN 11.229 7 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of the men of letters...was the darkest passage in the history.
    AKan 11.255 19 The printed letters of border ruffians avow the facts.
    AKan 11.256 13 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters?
    JBS 11.277 9 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    ACiv 11.303 10 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged.
    ALin 11.333 22 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    SMC 11.360 17 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer. These necessities make the topics of the ten thousand letters with which the mail-bags came loaded day by day.
    SMC 11.360 19 These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil] war.
    SMC 11.360 20 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp...
    SMC 11.360 25 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills...
    SMC 11.361 9 The letters of the captain [George Prescott] are the dearest treasures of this town [Concord].
    EdAd 11.393 4 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    Wom 11.403 2 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Wom 11.418 19 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them, as...to letters or an art...
    FRep 11.539 27 ...if we have taught...the bolt of heaven to write our letters like a Gillot pen, let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    MAng1 12.240 8 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters...
    Milt1 12.270 8 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
    ACri 12.283 7 The secondary services of literature...are quite as important in letters as iron is in war.
    ACri 12.283 15 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
    MLit 12.327 15 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    WSL 12.346 7 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    PPr 12.383 1 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...
    PPr 12.388 7 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who knows what belongs to him...
    Let 12.393 27 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
    Let 12.397 24 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
    Trag 12.416 24 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science.

Letters, n. (2)

    LT 1.259 4 ...the present aspects of our social state...Art, Trade, Letters, have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    Art2 7.37 2 All departments of life at the present day--Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or Religion--seem to feel...the identity of their law.

Letters, Revival of, n. (2)

    Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Revival of Letters...
    Schr 10.282 26 We have had once what was called the Revival of Letters.

Letters, [Francis Bacon], n (1)

    Boks 7.207 14 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...all the Letters...

letter-writing, adj. (1)

    Let 12.392 2 ...we are very liable, in common with the letter-writing world, to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...

letter-writing, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.364 22 The art of letter-writing, it is said, was immensely cultivated [at Brook Farm].

letting, v. (11)

    MR 1.237 3 ...I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    UGM 4.23 14 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...
    MoS 4.159 3 since true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    ShP 4.191 12 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists...in letting the world do all...
    Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Art2 7.41 8 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    DL 7.117 9 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    Farm 7.149 16 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...
    Schr 10.266 1 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
    MMEm 10.423 4 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons.
    Carl 10.492 6 [Young men] go for free institutions, for letting things alone...[Carlyle] for stringent government...

lettres, l'homme de, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.249 11 We know that l'homme de lettres is a little wary...

Leucippus, n. (2)

    SwM 4.104 19 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.113 14 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...

Leuwenhock [Leeuwenhoek], A (1)

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

levee, n. (3)

    ET7 5.123 4 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET7 5.123 8 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going. I will go to this, or I will never go to a king's levee.
    Ctr 6.151 3 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...

level, adj. (6)

    ET14 5.240 12 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo2 8.125 18 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
    ACri 12.294 2 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
    MLit 12.326 23 ...[Goethe's] thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    PPr 12.389 18 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

level, adv. (1)

    Nat 1.37 25 ...Property, which has been well compared to snow, - if it fall level to-day, it will be blown into drifts to-morrow, - is the surface action of internal machinery...

level, n. (21)

    Comp 2.98 21 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    SL 2.137 3 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of its source.
    SL 2.146 13 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
    OS 2.277 15 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    Exp 3.54 13 On its own level, or in view of nature, temperament is final.
    Chr1 3.96 21 [A healthy soul] is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
    Gts 3.163 5 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. When the waters are at level, then my goods pass to him, and his to me.
    SwM 4.144 7 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no relief to the dead prosaic level.
    ET2 5.29 24 The sea keeps its old level;...
    F 6.34 19 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society,-grouping it on a level instead of piling it into a mountain...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Wth 6.106 7 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Bty 6.298 24 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts...force him to stoop to the general level of mankind.
    WD 7.160 20 The soil of Holland...is below the level of the sea.
    Insp 8.293 8 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he...will sink to their level or be silent.
    Grts 8.302 3 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of dulness or vice...
    Grts 8.320 9 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Chr2 10.104 3 The populace drag down the gods to their own level...
    Supl 10.166 26 Our measure of success is the moderation and low level of an individual's judgment.
    SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
    SovE 10.193 3 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.
    ACri 12.296 18 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...and took his level...

level, v. (1)

    Wth 6.122 25 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.

levelled, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.178 8 An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun...

levelled, v. (2)

    LT 1.283 1 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought...
    GoW 4.280 9 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it;...

leveller, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.

levelling, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.98 24 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing...substantially on the same ground with all others.

levelling, v. (1)

    F 6.21 8 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low...

levels, n. (4)

    Exp 3.46 3 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream...
    PPh 4.44 25 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
    ET14 5.243 14 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
    Elo1 7.66 27 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels.

levels, v. (4)

    NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] levels the Alps;...
    ET11 5.196 12 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    Comc 8.163 7 Wit...levels all distinctions.
    Prch 10.219 6 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.

Leveque, Charles, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 23 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...

lever, n. (4)

    MR 1.254 17 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods,- being its own lever, fulcrum, and power,-which force could never achieve.
    ET5 5.83 12 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever, the screw and pulley...
    Clbs 7.228 8 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw.
    SA 8.95 16 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king. There is nothing that does not pass into lever or weapon.

Leverrier, Urbain Jean, n. (1)

    Suc 7.286 5 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...

levers, n. (4)

    NMW 4.254 22 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering. There are two levers for moving men,--interest and fear.
    Farm 7.142 15 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    Res 8.139 7 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
    EdAd 11.384 10 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.

Leveson-Gower, G. [Duke of (2)

    ET11 5.182 12 The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland...
    ET11 5.189 5 The dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...

Leviathan [Thomas Hobbes], (1)

    ET12 5.202 4 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.

levied, v. (3)

    Comp 2.113 17 ...for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied.
    CbW 6.253 25 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...

levies, n. (1)

    NMW 4.242 26 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...

Levite, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.124 11 ...in your struggles with the world...when priest and Levite shall come and look on you and pass by on the other side, seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...

levity, n. (30)

    SL 2.151 14 Nothing is more deeply punished than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.
    Fdsp 2.200 24 Love...is not for levity...
    OS 2.272 17 ...to speak with levity of these limits [of time and space] is, in the world, the sign of insanity.
    OS 2.275 11 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.
    Pol1 3.199 23 ...politics rest on necessary foundations, and cannot be treated with levity.
    MoS 4.165 7 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    MoS 4.174 1 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect;...
    NMW 4.243 26 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    GoW 4.269 13 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... He wrote without levity and without choice.
    GoW 4.283 10 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    ET13 5.224 8 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    ET14 5.248 17 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
    ET14 5.255 2 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;...
    Ctr 6.163 21 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
    Wsp 6.208 24 In creeds never was such levity;...
    Elo1 7.91 22 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
    Aris 10.57 22 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
    MoL 10.255 12 Our people have this levity and complaisance...
    LLNE 10.361 16 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.
    MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity in her dress.
    EWI 11.111 14 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager...
    FSLC 11.184 15 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
    FSLN 11.233 3 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    FRep 11.522 21 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    FRep 11.532 20 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this levity makes them as easily despond.
    PLT 12.9 15 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus.
    PLT 12.57 1 It is the levity of this country to forgive everything to talent.
    CL 12.163 20 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man. This is that which is the saliency, or principle of levity...

levy, n. (1)

    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds. And so on, with every levy, to the end of the war.

levy, v. (1)

    Insp 8.290 14 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses, to levy on them blackmail.

lewdness, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.232 6 [The man of talent's] art never taught him lewdness...
    ET11 5.192 8 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

Lewes, Hebrides, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides...

lexicographer, n. (1)

    MR 1.240 21 I do not wish to...insist that every man should be a farmer, any more than that every man should be a lexicographer.

Lexicon, Conversations', n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 7 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...in the Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down;...

Lexington, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    MN 1.219 22 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was not begun in Concord, or Lexington, or Virginia...
    HDC 11.73 13 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia...

Leyden, Holland, n. (1)

    Bost 12.199 13 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...

liable, adj. (14)

    Tran 1.330 12 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which are of the same nature as the faculty which reports them, and not liable to doubt;...
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
    Hist 2.35 20 Lucy Ashton is another name for fidelity, which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in this world.
    Prd1 2.234 26 ...money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss;...
    Prd1 2.234 27 ...money...if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.
    Hsm1 2.249 18 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
    SwM 4.129 22 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    ET7 5.123 14 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions;...
    F 6.7 12 The planet is liable to shocks from comets...
    Ill 6.316 4 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection, and its atmosphere always liable to mirage.
    Cour 7.262 25 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic...
    MAng1 12.239 3 It has been supposed that artists more than others are liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the talents of others].
    Let 12.392 1 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...
    Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

liar, n. (3)

    DSA 1.135 3 ...not any liar, not any slave can teach...
    Prd1 2.236 27 Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar...
    NMW 4.254 2 [Napoleon] is a boundless liar.

liber, n. (1)

    Insp 8.295 25 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought, as only the outmost layer of liber on the tree.

liberal, adj. (39)

    Tran 1.349 22 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Tran 1.354 24 [The moral movements of the time] have a liberal, even an aesthetic spirit.
    YA 1.366 15 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in those connected with the liberal professions.
    YA 1.376 13 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.390 9 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side...
    SL 2.142 15 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    Exp 3.45 19 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    NR 3.226 2 We are greatly too liberal in our construction of each other's faculty and promise.
    NER 3.259 15 ...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 3.264 7 [The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an education to labor.
    NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    ET2 5.25 9 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET2 5.31 13 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET15 5.270 21 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
    ET18 5.304 2 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
    Farm 7.152 16 ...true political economy is...liberal...
    Clbs 7.242 19 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.243 15 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    SA 8.93 12 Steele said of his mistress, that to have loved her was a liberal education.
    SA 8.107 12 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
    PC 8.209 16 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
    Chr2 10.115 25 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms, when such [best and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received...
    Chr2 10.116 16 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    Edc1 10.138 16 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...
    MMEm 10.416 25 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    SlHr 10.440 9 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use...
    SlHr 10.448 29 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Carl 10.491 4 Young men, especially those holding liberal opinions, press to see [Carlyle]...
    EWI 11.137 8 ...every liberal mind...has had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    War 11.161 19 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence...of liberal governments over feudal forms.
    FSLC 11.181 13 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not a liberal recollection, not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.182 1 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.205 15 The destiny of this country is great and liberal...
    FSLN 11.225 25 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    ACiv 11.298 21 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.
    FRep 11.518 9 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
    PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you could not find a club of men acute and liberal enough in the world.
    CInt 12.113 23 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts, only to the liberal or the causal arts.
    MAng1 12.238 14 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...

liberal, n. (1)

    NMW 4.252 18 [Napoleon] was...the liberal, the radical...

liberalism, n. (1)

    Con 1.298 15 ...conservatism [stands] on circumstance, liberalism on power;...

liberalities, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.210 8 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.

liberality, n. (5)

    Cir 2.307 21 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech...
    SwM 4.134 23 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom...
    MoS 4.164 22 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    Wth 6.117 18 In England...I was assured...that liberality with money is as rare and as immediately famous a virtue as it is here.
    Aris 10.34 22 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.

liberalize, v. (1)

    Int 2.339 21 Is it any better if the student...to liberalize himself, aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.

liberalizers, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 25 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...

liberally, adv. (4)

    LT 1.274 3 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped...
    ET14 5.242 9 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    Wth 6.125 19 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.
    HDC 11.80 16 [The country towns] were jealous lest the General Court should pay itself too liberally...

liberals, n. (1)

    ET4 5.52 17 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America...

liberate, v. (2)

    UGM 4.18 22 True genius will not impoverish, but will liberate...
    Elo1 7.94 20 If you would liberate me you must be free.

liberated, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.75 6 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...

liberated, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.24 26 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic, or the new type which things themselves take when liberated.
    Boks 7.213 25 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    EzRy 10.383 17 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.
    EdAd 11.388 2 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.

liberates, v. (3)

    UGM 4.22 8 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
    NMW 4.246 2 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    II 12.78 27 ...vigor always liberates.

liberating, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.30 11 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.
    Pt1 3.32 1 The poets are thus liberating gods.
    NER 3.284 21 Obedience to [a man's] genius is the only liberating influence.

liberation, n. (7)

    MN 1.215 21 Tell me not how great your project is, the civil liberation of the world...
    Pt1 3.33 9 There is good reason why we should prize this liberation.
    PPh 4.51 5 That which the soul seeks is...liberation from nature.
    SwM 4.138 6 ...that is knowledge,[say the Hindoos,] which is for our liberation...
    F 6.36 4 Liberation of the will...is the end and aim of this world.
    SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
    EWI 11.107 25 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

liberator, n. (2)

    Cour 7.274 27 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator...
    II 12.86 3 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor...

Liberia, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.208 5 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design...the new importance of Liberia;...all join to demand it.
    FSLC 11.210 18 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton...none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?

liberties, n. (11)

    NR 3.227 21 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...take liberties with private letters...
    ShP 4.201 1 The world takes liberties with world-books.
    GoW 4.272 13 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    Farm 7.139 14 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.
    Insp 8.290 24 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...to these picturesque liberties [in nature].
    Prch 10.230 18 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    MoL 10.254 13 The scholar is bound to stand for all the virtues and all the liberties...
    Plu 10.320 21 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators...
    HDC 11.69 6 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    HDC 11.70 15 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...
    AKan 11.257 27 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is...a systematic war...in defiance of all laws and liberties,- I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

liberty, n. (145)

    Nat 1.21 18 ...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by [Lord Russell's] side.
    LE 1.159 22 If any person have less love of liberty...shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    MN 1.219 14 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;...
    LT 1.280 13 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power, as we are fond of liberty ourselves.
    Con 1.305 6 ...you cannot...attain liberty without rejecting obligation...
    YA 1.392 4 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.25 10 Throughout [Xenophon's] army exists a boundless liberty of speech.
    SR 2.50 3 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    SR 2.74 1 ...I cannot sell my liberty...to save [my friends'] sensibility.
    Pt1 3.32 24 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty...
    Pt1 3.32 26 How cheap even the liberty then seems;...when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Chr1 3.96 3 An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity...are left at large no longer.
    Mrs1 3.142 16 Lover of liberty...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Nat2 3.171 13 Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Pol1 3.212 7 Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
    Pol1 3.212 8 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
    NMW 4.228 8 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    NMW 4.241 24 [Napoleon] knew...how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    NMW 4.254 14 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days.
    ET1 5.4 23 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    ET3 5.43 25 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET4 5.46 6 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist, enlarging the dominion of their arts and liberty.
    ET4 5.48 25 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as personal liberty;...
    ET5 5.75 13 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    ET8 5.140 26 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty coming from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET8 5.141 7 ...the English stand for liberty.
    ET9 5.146 27 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    ET9 5.149 14 ...[the English] feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
    ET11 5.180 19 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country, combined with the degree of liberty possessed by the peasant, makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET13 5.215 23 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...founded liberty...
    ET14 5.255 4 The fact is, say [the English] over their wine, all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; it won't do any longer.
    ET18 5.303 24 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for liberty...
    ET18 5.308 11 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.
    F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty...
    F 6.4 18 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...
    F 6.12 24 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.23 11 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...
    F 6.27 5 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much...of the point we would make, as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.35 25 ...before [every individual] opens liberty...
    Pow 6.64 14 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Wsp 6.211 5 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    Bty 6.288 17 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought and acquaints the prisoner that liberty and power await him.
    Civ 7.19 12 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Civ 7.21 10 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
    Civ 7.25 24 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Reason, and thereby true liberty.
    Civ 7.34 3 ...if there be...a country...where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 17 Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential; as, justice to the citizen, and personal liberty.
    Art2 7.57 3 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Elo1 7.100 5 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or liberty of speech or of the press...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    PI 8.59 16 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
    SA 8.91 8 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    SA 8.105 18 ...[sentimentalists] love liberty, dear liberty!...
    Elo2 8.132 7 ...when a great sentiment, as religion or liberty, makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    PC 8.231 4 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains...
    PC 8.231 5 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains, and see whether liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...
    PPo 8.248 6 The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty...
    Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.
    Aris 10.53 2 ...Genius...gives [men] a sense of delicious liberty and power.
    Aris 10.63 21 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    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.
    Prch 10.236 5 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...
    Prch 10.236 11 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    MoL 10.254 13 The scholar is bound to stand for...liberty of trade, liberty of the press, liberty of religion...
    MoL 10.254 14 The scholar is bound to stand for...liberty of trade, liberty of the press, liberty of religion...
    MoL 10.257 6 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    MoL 10.258 15 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    LLNE 10.355 15 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...
    CSC 10.375 26 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    SlHr 10.439 2 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Thor 10.483 20 We are strictly confined to our men to whom we give liberty.
    HDC 11.48 6 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
    HDC 11.72 6 A deep religious sentiment sanctified the thirst for liberty.
    LVB 11.93 16 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
    EWI 11.100 6 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward. Therefore I will speak,-or, not I, but the might of liberty in my weakness.
    EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    EWI 11.121 9 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.127 2 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity...
    EWI 11.140 1 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain...lock up every house where liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.
    EWI 11.146 25 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    EWI 11.147 15 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    FSLC 11.184 1 It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine civility, as the jealousy of liberty.
    FSLC 11.184 13 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.187 14 A man's right to liberty is as inalienable as his right to life.
    FSLC 11.204 22 So with the eulogies of liberty in [Webster's] writings,- they are sentimentalism and youthful rhetoric.
    FSLC 11.213 26 It is very certain from...the high arguments of the defenders of liberty, which the occasion [the Fugitive Slave Law] called out, that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.220 1 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide, and that holds them to the part of liberty and justice.
    FSLN 11.228 3 Burke said he would pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
    FSLN 11.229 18 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    FSLN 11.229 20 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...
    FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
    FSLN 11.232 21 ...the world exists...to teach the science of liberty...
    FSLN 11.232 22 ...the world exists...to teach the science of liberty, which begins with liberty from fear.
    FSLN 11.236 23 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    FSLN 11.239 24 England maintains trade, not liberty;...
    FSLN 11.240 5 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    FSLN 11.240 8 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    FSLN 11.240 14 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    FSLN 11.240 15 Liberty is never cheap.
    FSLN 11.242 4 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
    FSLN 11.242 6 [Scholars and literary men] are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth...
    FSLN 11.242 8 ...[scholars and literary men] are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854.
    FSLN 11.243 15 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    FSLN 11.243 20 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
    FSLN 11.244 2 Liberty is aggressive...
    JBS 11.277 15 John Brown, the founder of liberty in Kansas, was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.
    TPar 11.285 23 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history of the civil and religious liberty of his times.
    TPar 11.292 26 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    EPro 11.315 10 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...
    EPro 11.315 13 Liberty is a slow fruit.
    SMC 11.353 1 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear...
    Koss 11.397 16 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    Koss 11.398 2 The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust the sound of liberty./
    Koss 11.399 23 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...
    Koss 11.400 12 You [Kossuth] may well sit a doctor in the college of liberty.
    SHC 11.433 12 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    FRep 11.521 21 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power, very heedless of his own liberty or of other peoples'...
    FRep 11.530 17 ...the great interests of mankind, being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    FRep 11.539 18 ...liberty, like religion, is a short and hasty fruit...
    FRep 11.541 4 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
    FRep 11.543 13 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice.
    FRep 11.543 18 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...
    CInt 12.114 26 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    CInt 12.127 3 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CL 12.152 25 The influence of the ocean on the love of liberty, I have mentioned elsewhere.
    Bost 12.188 20 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...part of the history of political liberty.
    Bost 12.203 24 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone...
    Bost 12.204 19 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people; liberty, clean and wise.
    Bost 12.209 21 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    MAng1 12.237 27 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle, that his work might be lighted and his hands at liberty.
    Milt1 12.250 12 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have written from the deep convictions of love and right, which are the foundations of civil liberty.
    Milt1 12.265 7 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country' s liberty...
    Milt1 12.268 2 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily... whilst he launched from time to time his formidable bolts against the enemies of liberty.
    Milt1 12.270 7 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
    Milt1 12.270 23 That which drew [Milton] to the party was his love of liberty, ideal liberty;...
    Milt1 12.271 6 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties in the defence of liberty...
    Milt1 12.271 12 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man...
    Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
    Milt1 12.271 22 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant. He pushed as far his views of ecclesiastical liberty.
    Milt1 12.271 26 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty...
    Milt1 12.272 4 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce...
    Milt1 12.272 15 [Milton's tracts] are all varied applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.
    Milt1 12.272 21 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition; knowing that he should not abuse that liberty...
    WSL 12.344 2 ...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
    EurB 12.377 19 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.

Liberty, n. (2)

    YA 1.378 20 ...the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty;...
    FSLN 11.244 2 ...Liberty is the Crusade of all brave and conscientious men...

liberty-cap, n. (2)

    FRep 11.531 6 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.
    FRep 11.531 7 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.

liberty-loving, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.141 8 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving;...

Liberty's, n. (1)

    HCom 11.344 27 Ah! young brothers, all honor and gratitude to you,-- you...Liberty's and Humanity's bodyguard!

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