Librarian to Life

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

librarian, n. (2)

    Thor 10.458 20 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books. The librarian refused to lend them.
    Thor 10.459 8 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these.

librarians, n. (4)

    SL 2.147 23 ...it is not observed...that librarians are wiser men than others.
    ShP 4.197 9 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Saadi] are librarians and historiographers, as well as poets.
    ET11 5.188 24 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind...
    ET12 5.212 21 Oxford is a library, and the professors must be librarians.

Libraries, Ambrosian, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Ambrosian... Libraries.

Libraries, Bodleian, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Bodleian... Libraries.

Libraries, Congressional, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Congressional Libraries.

libraries, n. (29)

    AmS 1.89 11 Meek young men grow up in libraries...
    AmS 1.89 15 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
    Con 1.311 4 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    Hist 2.23 24 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers in...libraries...
    SR 2.85 16 ...[man's] libraries overload his wit;...
    SL 2.154 12 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    Pol1 3.220 16 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of museums and libraries...can be answered.
    NR 3.235 18 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
    PPh 4.39 3 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    GoW 4.288 11 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who knew where libraries, galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be had...
    ET3 5.36 13 See what books fill our libraries.
    ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET11 5.188 14 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Howard and Spenserian libraries...
    ET12 5.211 27 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET13 5.226 5 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET14 5.256 1 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this Birmingham character.
    Wth 6.94 24 To be rich is...to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
    Ctr 6.148 21 In town [a man] can find...foreign travelers, the libraries and his club.
    Civ 7.17 22 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill/...
    Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Boks 7.193 5 We look over with a sigh the monumental libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
    Boks 7.210 23 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
    PI 8.15 5 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
    QO 8.177 21 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which they have sought through all libraries...
    Insp 8.287 5 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
    Plu 10.303 6 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    HDC 11.49 19 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
    CInt 12.122 6 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

Libraries, Royal, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Royal... Libraries.

Library, Bodleian, Oxford, (4)

    ET12 5.199 18 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...the Bodleian Library...
    ET12 5.203 8 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
    ET12 5.204 2 No candle or fire is ever lighted in the Bodleian.
    ET12 5.204 7 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being that the Bodleian has all books.

Library, Bohn's, n. (1)

    Boks 7.203 25 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.

Library, Cambridge, Massach (1)

    Boks 7.193 21 I visit occasionally the Cambridge Library...

Library, City, Boston, Mas (1)

    Bhr 6.174 16 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.

Library, Concord, n. (1)

    CPL 11.497 2 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...

Library, Harvard University (1)

    Thor 10.458 19 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.

Library, Imperial, Paris, (1)

    Boks 7.193 8 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...

Library, London, n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 25 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum; the fifty-three volumes of which are in the London Library.

Library, Merton Oxford, En (1)

    ET12 5.201 26 The books in Merton Library [Oxford] are still chained to the wall.

library, n. (57)

    Con 1.307 12 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    Con 1.312 7 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores...for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    Lov1 2.172 6 What books in the circulating library circulate?
    Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    Pol1 3.216 13 [The wise man] needs no library, for he has not done thinking;...
    SwM 4.105 24 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
    SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
    MoS 4.162 17 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    MoS 4.163 10 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and...had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.163 19 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
    ShP 4.192 3 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    ET1 5.9 12 I was more curious to see [Landor's] library...
    ET2 5.31 23 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library;...
    ET9 5.152 6 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money, embraced Arianism, collected a library...
    ET12 5.202 15 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    ET12 5.204 4 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.
    ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    ET12 5.204 8 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847)...1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.206 4 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET12 5.212 20 Oxford is a library, and the professors must be librarians.
    ET16 5.284 21 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET17 5.295 19 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every American library his translations are found.
    Wth 6.122 17 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows; his library must command a western view;...
    Ctr 6.148 27 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
    Ctr 6.149 1 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
    Ctr 6.155 7 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college and the right in the library, is educated to some purpose.
    Ill 6.316 23 'T is fine for us to point at one or another fine madman, as if there were any exempts. The scholar in his library is none.
    DL 7.131 15 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
    Boks 7.190 13 Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library.
    Boks 7.191 25 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Boks 7.199 20 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library;...
    Boks 7.209 7 ...a man's library is a sort of harem...
    Boks 7.209 18 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.
    Boks 7.213 17 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.
    Suc 7.305 17 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    QO 8.177 6 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
    Insp 8.288 23 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm...
    Grts 8.314 16 [Napoleon] has left a library of manuscripts...
    PerF 10.75 20 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the garden, the rain out of the library...
    Thor 10.459 1 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and College useless, on the terms of his rules...
    Thor 10.459 4 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College was its library...
    FSLC 11.190 10 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...
    EdAd 11.383 18 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...leaves his library and takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    Scot 11.464 5 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library, will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    CPL 11.494 2 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
    CPL 11.495 13 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.
    CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
    CPL 11.497 23 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...
    CPL 11.499 13 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...
    CPL 11.503 16 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
    CPL 11.508 15 ...there is no end...to the value of the library.
    Mem 12.92 10 [Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
    MAng1 12.243 22 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
    ACri 12.286 24 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced...with reference to all the books in your library.
    MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
    WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
    Let 12.393 18 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...

Library, n. (1)

    CPL 11.508 25 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...

Library, Serial, [H. G. B (1)

    PNR 4.80 1 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...

lice, n. (1)

    Pow 6.62 3 We prosper with such vigor that like thrifty trees, which grow in spite of ice, lice, mice and borers, so we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.

licence, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.230 23 [Reasonably men] answered...that they saw plainly that all was going to the utmost verge of licence;...

license, n. (6)

    Pol1 3.211 12 It is said that in our license of construing the Constitution... we have no anchor;...
    PC 8.211 8 Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the brink, of license.
    Insp 8.290 12 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
    SovE 10.205 16 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    Milt1 12.271 11 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...yet in his own mind discriminated from savage license...
    WSL 12.339 16 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...

licensed, adj. (1)

    YA 1.392 24 Would [our youths and maidens] like...licensed press...

licentious, adj. (4)

    EWI 11.110 26 In the [West Indian] islands was an ominous state of cruel and licentious society;...
    EWI 11.117 15 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before.
    War 11.153 26 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    WSL 12.339 13 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...

licentiousness, n. (3)

    Hist 2.29 15 A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
    EWI 11.119 6 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters;...
    Milt1 12.272 22 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.

lichen, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.180 6 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...

lichen, n. (3)

    Con 1.317 25 ...no moss, no lichen is so easily born [as man];...
    Hist 2.39 23 ...see...the lichen on the log.
    Wth 6.83 6 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/

lichens, n. (4)

    YA 1.395 2 Our houses and towns are like mosses and lichens, so slight and new;...
    UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Fries, of lichens;...
    Boks 7.219 17 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...
    CL 12.160 17 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

lick, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    EzRy 10.386 8 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning, that it may not lick up our spirits;...are well remembered...

lid, n. (1)

    CPL 11.502 14 [Thought] cannot be contained in any cup, though you shut the lid never so tight.

Lido, Venice, Italy, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 3 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

lids, n. (4)

    AmS 1.81 17 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...
    Art2 7.50 22 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    QO 8.193 3 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    LLNE 10.331 8 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids...

lie, n. (42)

    AmS 1.105 1 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
    DSA 1.123 9 The least admixture of a lie...will instantly vitiate the effect.
    MN 1.198 27 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear;...
    MN 1.202 9 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Con 1.309 16 To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats you.
    Comp 2.95 25 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie.
    Comp 2.121 22 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
    Prd1 2.237 1 On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax;...
    Chr1 3.95 24 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...
    Pol1 3.214 12 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie, and hurts like a lie both him and me.
    Pol1 3.214 15 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption; it must be executed by a practical lie, namely by force.
    NR 3.245 11 ...the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie;...
    NER 3.263 2 ...the street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    NER 3.276 6 [A man] is sure that the soul which gives the lie to all things will tell none.
    NER 3.278 16 There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.
    PNR 4.84 4 Plato affirms...that the lie was more hurtful than homicide;...
    PNR 4.84 5 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
    PNR 4.89 25 I am sorry to see [Plato], after such noble superiorities, permitting [in The Republic] the lie to governors.
    ET7 5.117 26 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    ET7 5.118 7 ...to give the lie is the extreme insult [in England].
    ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET7 5.125 2 ...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.
    ET8 5.132 14 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted;...
    ET13 5.228 6 If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
    Suc 7.282 10 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    SA 8.96 8 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    Elo2 8.131 13 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    Comc 8.161 20 We have no deeper interest than...that we should be made aware by joke and by stroke of any lie we entertain.
    Comc 8.162 10 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    Comc 8.164 21 ...as the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...vitiating this is the greatest lie.
    Comc 8.168 14 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie...
    Comc 8.169 8 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;...
    Insp 8.289 10 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Imtl 8.333 8 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
    Supl 10.171 2 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    Supl 10.172 1 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    Supl 10.172 15 The objection to unmeasured speech is its lie.
    Carl 10.496 13 Wellington [Carlyle] respects...as having made up his mind, once for all, that he will not have to do with any kind of lie.
    AKan 11.256 9 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that...'t is an Abolition lie.
    CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every hoary lie...
    CInt 12.121 14 Do you imagine that a lie will nourish and work like a truth?
    PPr 12.382 21 ...let [a man's speech] always side with the race and yield neither a lie nor a sneer.

lie, v. (99)

    Nat 1.16 16 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.45 22 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    Nat 1.54 21 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    Nat 1.64 19 This [spiritual] view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    AmS 1.96 7 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air.
    DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...
    MN 1.195 27 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    MR 1.245 3 We shall eat hard and lie hard...
    Con 1.304 2 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.
    Tran 1.332 12 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.337 1 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    Tran 1.337 2 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would lie and deceive, as Pylades when he personated Orestes;...
    Tran 1.351 18 If I cannot work, at least I need not lie.
    Tran 1.351 19 All that is clearly due to-day is not to lie.
    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    SR 2.64 23 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence...
    SL 2.156 20 Faces never lie, it is said.
    SL 2.160 15 Let us lie low in the Lord's power...
    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    OS 2.270 23 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie...
    OS 2.272 2 We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature...
    Int 2.334 4 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive organ, though you knew it not.
    Int 2.336 15 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but...they are not detached, but lie in a web.
    Pt1 3.41 22 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature...
    Chr1 3.109 19 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    PPh 4.47 26 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy];...
    SwM 4.133 5 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...
    MoS 4.157 2 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    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 4.180 5 ...shall we, because a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, say, There are no doubts,--and lie for the right?
    ShP 4.193 19 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers. They had best lie where they are.
    GoW 4.262 11 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert;...
    GoW 4.267 19 ...in...actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.270 14 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    ET3 5.41 22 As America, Europe and Asia lie, these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET4 5.68 24 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie.
    ET5 5.78 15 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    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...
    ET10 5.157 4 The headlong bias to utility [in England] will let no talent lie in a napkin...
    ET11 5.174 19 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
    F 6.16 27 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Pow 6.57 3 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers...
    Pow 6.57 7 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for.
    Wth 6.88 9 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Wth 6.116 19 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
    Ctr 6.154 15 Let us learn to...lie hard.
    Bhr 6.178 2 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal...to lie down and hide itself.
    Bhr 6.179 16 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie...
    CbW 6.261 2 He [who is to be wise for many] must know the huts where poor men lie...
    Ill 6.324 17 ...the beatitude of man [the Hindoos] hold to lie in being freed from fascination.
    Civ 7.30 17 Let us not lie and steal.
    Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    Elo1 7.71 23 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground...
    DL 7.119 10 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.
    Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age. There lie the inexhaustible magazines.
    Cour 7.275 4 [The man with sacred courage] is free to speak truth; he is not free to lie.
    SA 8.81 2 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens, in all which he hopes to lie perdu...
    PPo 8.265 14 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    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...
    Aris 10.29 12 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;/...
    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...
    Chr2 10.94 25 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Chr2 10.119 16 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    Supl 10.170 23 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...
    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...
    LS 11.16 23 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
    LVB 11.94 27 Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?-We ask triumphantly.
    EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with, in whose filthy hold he sat in irons, unable to lie down;...
    FSLC 11.207 9 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
    FSLC 11.207 10 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
    FSLC 11.207 15 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority. The experience of the past gives us no encouragement to lie by.
    FSLC 11.213 17 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal...
    TPar 11.288 27 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men. It does not lie at [Theodore Parker's] door.
    ACiv 11.308 7 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EdAd 11.387 13 ...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
    PLT 12.4 9 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    PLT 12.18 12 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time...
    PLT 12.56 15 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...in this direction lie usefulness, comfort, society...
    II 12.77 14 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition...
    II 12.85 22 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.
    Mem 12.92 11 [Memory] does not lie...
    Mem 12.94 9 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years that they should lie so still...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    CInt 12.118 16 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CL 12.153 14 [The sea] is great and formidable, when you lie down in it, among the rocks.
    CL 12.160 19 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived, and will not lie.
    MAng1 12.217 16 [Beauty] does not lie within the limits of the understanding.
    Milt1 12.260 15 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
    ACri 12.293 2 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall and will.
    MLit 12.316 23 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.
    AgMs 12.364 4 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.
    Let 12.400 2 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field, where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away into the sand?
    Trag 12.405 22 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.
    Trag 12.406 27 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...
    Trag 12.407 1 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...crushing [man] if his wishes lie contrary to it...
    Trag 12.408 24 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.

liebt, v. (1)

    MoS 4.153 17 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...

lied, v. (1)

    Tran 1.337 2 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...

lief, adv. (2)

    Tran 1.348 7 The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist;...
    Civ 7.28 6 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message? Just as lief as not;...

lieges, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 9 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

lies, n. (7)

    MR 1.248 11 What is a man born for but to be...a renouncer of lies;...
    SR 2.55 8 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.73 22 It is alike your interest...and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
    SL 2.155 21 ...all things are [Truth's] organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
    EWI 11.104 25 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true, or only missionary lies.
    War 11.165 2 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    CInt 12.112 16 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

lies, v. (111)

    Nat 1.41 27 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.
    Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that...it lies under the undermost garment of Nature...
    Nat 1.74 1 The reason why the world...lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself.
    AmS 1.92 7 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.95 7 The world, - this shadow of the soul, or other me, - lies wide around.
    AmS 1.98 10 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
    AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...which lies no great way back;...
    AmS 1.111 26 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room...
    DSA 1.120 26 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.
    DSA 1.126 1 This [religious] sentiment lies at the foundation of society...
    DSA 1.134 17 If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
    LE 1.164 5 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
    LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
    MR 1.240 8 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    LT 1.259 9 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable...behind it in silence.
    LT 1.289 1 Underneath all these appearances lies that which is...
    Con 1.301 13 ...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united in real nature...
    Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
    Tran 1.353 10 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by...until his hour comes again.
    YA 1.385 9 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them;...
    SR 2.56 19 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.78 6 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    SR 2.88 7 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it...merely lies there...
    Comp 2.118 15 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    Comp 2.121 1 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    SL 2.132 2 ...the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
    SL 2.163 26 The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
    Prd1 2.225 7 ...here lies stubborn matter...
    Hsm1 2.258 1 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is.
    OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere;...
    OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
    Int 2.325 8 Intellect lies behind genius...
    Int 2.327 4 ...man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Int 2.334 6 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Art1 2.354 10 The virtue of art lies in detachment...
    Art1 2.354 16 The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
    Pt1 3.3 15 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Exp 3.50 8 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses...and each shows only what lies in its focus.
    Chr1 3.92 11 ...the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man;...
    Mrs1 3.145 20 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and persuaded his enemy;...
    Gts 3.159 10 ...the impediment [in giving gifts] lies in the choosing.
    Nat2 3.176 20 There is nothing so wonderful in any particular landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies.
    Nat2 3.186 4 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Nat2 3.194 12 ...a beneficent purpose lies in wait for us.
    Pol1 3.199 10 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose...
    NR 3.247 27 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind...
    NER 3.282 20 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence? There lies the unspoken thing, present, omnipresent.
    UGM 4.11 6 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.
    SwM 4.102 17 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times...
    ShP 4.211 19 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.
    ShP 4.214 13 [Shakespeare's] lyric power lies in the genius of the piece.
    ShP 4.216 5 Homer lies in sunshine;...
    GoW 4.262 16 ...that which is for [a man] to say lies as a load on his heart until it is delivered.
    GoW 4.281 21 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind...
    ET4 5.59 22 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET4 5.68 27 ...the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society...[the English] know how to wake up.
    ET5 5.87 3 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
    ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven years in the vat.
    ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...
    ET13 5.214 3 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.
    ET14 5.245 20 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics...
    ET14 5.253 3 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science...
    ET14 5.259 17 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET15 5.270 14 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies...
    ET16 5.284 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
    ET16 5.288 14 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    ET19 5.311 6 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character...which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    F 6.18 23 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
    F 6.24 20 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.48 12 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies;...
    Wth 6.87 12 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.117 4 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...
    Bhr 6.176 12 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the Old World, has some reason in common experience.
    Bty 6.294 26 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...
    Boks 7.214 17 Life lies about us dumb;...
    Boks 7.221 3 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind...
    Clbs 7.237 24 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...
    Suc 7.285 17 ...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 7.312 1 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world.
    PI 8.28 25 Fancy relates to surface, in which a great part of life lies.
    SA 8.99 5 See how it lies there in you;...
    Res 8.145 7 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    Comc 8.166 26 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
    Comc 8.169 1 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.
    PC 8.209 26 ...[the fop] lies at [the patriot's] mercy in the ballot of the club.
    PPo 8.241 27 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    Dem1 10.3 13 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
    Aris 10.33 4 A many-chambered Aristocracy lies already organized in [a man's] moods and faculties.
    PerF 10.77 10 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength, of where it lies...
    Chr2 10.91 12 ...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.104 27 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them, though they do not see where the error lies.
    Edc1 10.137 22 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper promise...
    Edc1 10.143 14 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Prch 10.220 23 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
    MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies with the educated class...
    MMEm 10.404 22 I used to propose that [Mary Moody Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.
    War 11.163 26 ...always we are daunted by the appearances; not seeing that their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
    War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...how low his hope lies.
    FSLN 11.224 10 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict, and it lies with one man to give a casting vote,-Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    EPro 11.320 4 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race; that lies not with us...
    Wom 11.418 21 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    SHC 11.432 10 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
    PLT 12.3 11 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist; sure of admiration for his facts, sure of their sufficiency. They ought to interest you; if they do not, the fault lies with you.
    PLT 12.33 16 The healthy mind lies parallel to the currents of Nature...
    II 12.70 2 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow. How much material lies in every man!
    II 12.74 1 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    II 12.77 12 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
    Bost 12.196 13 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude...
    MAng1 12.237 7 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    Trag 12.407 3 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...

lieu, n. (6)

    LE 1.179 10 ...that man [Napoleon]...represented performance in lieu of pretension.
    LT 1.276 23 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but in lieu of them all, reliance on the sentiment of man...
    ET6 5.111 23 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
    DL 7.115 19 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    Edc1 10.152 26 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.
    SovE 10.207 12 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.

Lieutenant, Lord, of Irelan (1)

    ET6 5.102 6 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...

lieutenant, n. (3)

    SMC 11.362 21 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SMC 11.366 4 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.366 6 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...

lieutenant-colonel, n. (1)

    SMC 11.365 17 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...

lieutenants, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 4 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...

lif, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 15 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;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./

Life and Letters [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;...

Life Assurance Company, Ho (1)

    MoL 10.246 11 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

Life [Benvenuto Cellini], n (1)

    Boks 7.208 8 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Benvenuto Cellini's Life;...

Life, Genius of, n. (1)

    SS 7.8 26 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life...

Life in India... [W. S. H (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...

life, n. (1403)

    Nat 1.3 11 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Nat 1.4 4 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
    Nat 1.9 24 In the woods, too, a man...at what period soever of life is always a child.
    Nat 1.10 4 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
    Nat 1.17 24 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
    Nat 1.22 8 ...in common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.27 5 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life...
    Nat 1.27 16 Spirit hath life in itself.
    Nat 1.28 4 ...marry [natural history] to human history, and it is full of life.
    Nat 1.28 21 ...is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons?
    Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.31 14 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.
    Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.35 13 A life in harmony with Nature...will purge the eyes to understand her text.
    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    Nat 1.40 23 ...every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.46 6 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...
    Nat 1.50 7 The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers...
    Nat 1.55 20 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...
    Nat 1.57 11 ...life is no longer irksome...
    Nat 1.57 26 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called...the introduction of ideas into life, have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.59 14 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life...
    Nat 1.63 10 Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular.
    Nat 1.64 7 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    Nat 1.71 5 When men are innocent, life shall be longer...
    Nat 1.74 9 ...in actual life, the marriage [of thought and devotion] is not celebrated.
    Nat 1.75 12 Man and woman and their social life...are known to you.
    Nat 1.75 20 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...especially at remarkable crises in life, our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    AmS 1.82 2 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
    AmS 1.84 19 In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind...
    AmS 1.87 23 [Nature] came into [the scholar] life; it went out from him truth.
    AmS 1.88 6 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    AmS 1.95 4 Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
    AmS 1.95 15 ...I dispose of [the world] within the circuit of my expanding life.
    AmS 1.95 16 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    AmS 1.96 14 The new deed is yet a part of life...
    AmS 1.96 15 The new deed...remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life.
    AmS 1.96 16 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    AmS 1.98 1 Life is our dictionary.
    AmS 1.98 10 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
    AmS 1.107 24 The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy...than any kingdom in history.
    AmS 1.111 3 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
    AmS 1.111 7 It is a sign...of new vigor...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.
    AmS 1.112 20 There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life...I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    AmS 1.114 20 Young men...who begin life upon our shores...turn drudges...
    AmS 1.115 7 ...for solace the perspective of your own infinite life;...
    DSA 1.119 2 In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.
    DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.121 14 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    DSA 1.121 19 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
    DSA 1.123 2 [The moral sentiment's] operation in life...is at last as sure as in the soul.
    DSA 1.124 9 So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
    DSA 1.127 12 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful. Then falls...art, letters, life.
    DSA 1.127 23 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.127 27 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    DSA 1.129 19 [Jesus]...felt that man's life was a miracle...
    DSA 1.130 6 Boldly, with hand, with heart, and life, [Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    DSA 1.133 23 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...
    DSA 1.133 26 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part of human life...
    DSA 1.135 26 The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct.
    DSA 1.136 14 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    DSA 1.138 6 The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    DSA 1.138 16 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life, - life passed through the fire of thought.
    DSA 1.139 23 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are...wholly insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the people.
    DSA 1.140 6 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
    DSA 1.141 2 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    DSA 1.146 26 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    DSA 1.150 8 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    DSA 1.151 3 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it...
    DSA 1.151 13 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
    LE 1.162 8 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the present hour.
    LE 1.163 15 I am tasting the self-same life...which I so admire in other men.
    LE 1.168 26 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the...hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul, and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon.
    LE 1.170 9 ...every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.173 16 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    LE 1.174 6 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...
    LE 1.175 25 Digest and correct the past experience; and blend it with the new and divine life.
    LE 1.176 7 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
    LE 1.177 24 [The scholar's] needs...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    LE 1.178 9 Let [the scholar] endeavor...cheerfully, to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age...
    LE 1.181 12 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be learned.
    LE 1.181 13 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    LE 1.181 14 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    LE 1.182 24 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and indefinite for the uses of life.
    MN 1.194 4 The power of mind is not mortification, but life.
    MN 1.195 15 The flame of life flickers feebly in human breasts.
    MN 1.197 26 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
    MN 1.200 5 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed...
    MN 1.200 25 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.201 15 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life...
    MN 1.204 7 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    MN 1.209 3 The ends...are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
    MN 1.209 8 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man] to transfer his thought from the life to the ends...
    MN 1.210 1 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is the fool of ideas, and leads a heavenly life.
    MN 1.215 7 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...
    MN 1.216 18 Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in every part of my life and fortune...
    MN 1.216 25 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MN 1.218 4 [Genius] looks to the cause and life...
    MN 1.221 12 I will that we...live a life of discovery and performance.
    MN 1.222 6 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne.
    MN 1.222 9 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne. Tenderly, tenderly, they woo and court us...from every fact in life...
    MN 1.222 14 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MR 1.227 6 ...our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
    MR 1.229 10 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.230 18 The young man, on entering life, finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
    MR 1.235 19 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    MR 1.239 2 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias...to the contemplative life, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    MR 1.245 12 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
    MR 1.247 17 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    MR 1.248 16 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which...every hour repairs herself, yielding us...with every pulsation a new life?
    MR 1.248 25 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    MR 1.249 17 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
    MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    MR 1.256 14 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    LT 1.267 1 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us; so is man's life.
    LT 1.271 9 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    LT 1.272 5 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
    LT 1.273 2 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they do not trust it...
    LT 1.281 23 A new disease has fallen on the life of man.
    LT 1.283 3 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought, without causing a new method of life.
    LT 1.283 12 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    LT 1.284 10 I think men never loved life less.
    LT 1.284 15 [Ennui] shortens life...
    LT 1.284 23 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    LT 1.289 6 To a true scholar the attraction of...the departments of life...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    LT 1.289 17 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    LT 1.289 27 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs. So is it with the Life of our life;...
    Con 1.300 18 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...
    Con 1.303 17 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be: it had life in it, or it could not have existed;...
    Con 1.303 18 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be...it has life in it, or it could not continue.
    Con 1.305 9 ...you are under the necessity...to live by [the Actual order of things], whilst you wish to take away its life.
    Con 1.309 8 My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours.
    Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in the first animal life...has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.314 14 ...there is...no man who from the beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective institutions;...
    Con 1.316 4 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying, This way of life is wrong...
    Con 1.318 13 ...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.326 8 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    Tran 1.331 13 The materialist...believes that his life is solid...
    Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
    Tran 1.338 13 ...we have yet no man...who, trusting to his sentiments, found life made of miracles;...
    Tran 1.339 4 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him...
    Tran 1.345 9 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    Tran 1.348 26 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...a life without love...
    Tran 1.350 14 Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
    Tran 1.352 24 My life is superficial...
    Tran 1.353 5 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.
    Tran 1.353 16 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do...
    Tran 1.353 26 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    Tran 1.356 10 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all their strength to deny, before they can begin to lead their own life.
    Tran 1.357 26 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius...then most when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of thought and life;...
    YA 1.369 9 Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.369 12 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life...
    YA 1.372 21 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war, navigation, and other accidents.
    YA 1.374 8 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    YA 1.380 23 These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of many usages in common life...
    YA 1.381 6 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
    YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.387 12 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
    YA 1.387 16 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by making his life secretly beautiful.
    YA 1.390 14 We cannot give our life to the cause of the debtor...as another is doing;...
    YA 1.393 11 The aristocracy...degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
    YA 1.393 22 ...the baldest life is symbolic.
    Hist 2.4 12 There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
    Hist 2.4 24 ...the crises of [a man's] life refer to national crises.
    Hist 2.5 25 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    Hist 2.8 2 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history]...
    Hist 2.8 14 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    Hist 2.9 17 This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece...as with so many flowers...
    Hist 2.12 23 To the poet...all men [are] divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance.
    Hist 2.13 19 Genius detects...through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity.
    Hist 2.21 23 The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life.
    Hist 2.23 12 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans...
    Hist 2.28 19 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
    Hist 2.32 24 What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?
    Hist 2.36 2 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
    Hist 2.39 25 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. What do I know sympathetically, morally, of either of these worlds of life?
    SR 2.53 4 My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
    SR 2.53 22 This rule [of self-reliance], equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.54 15 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.
    SR 2.57 13 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life...
    SR 2.62 27 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both;...
    SR 2.64 6 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call...Instinct.
    SR 2.64 15 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.
    SR 2.64 16 We first share the life by which things exist...
    SR 2.67 10 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts;...
    SR 2.68 21 ...when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way;...
    SR 2.69 12 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...
    SR 2.69 14 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie...what is called life and what is called death.
    SR 2.69 15 Life only avails, not the having lived.
    SR 2.75 15 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state...
    SR 2.76 6 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right...in complaining the rest of his life.
    SR 2.76 15 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life...
    SR 2.76 27 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor...
    SR 2.77 18 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    SR 2.84 6 Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life...
    SR 2.88 14 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking after thee;...
    Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
    Comp 2.94 12 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life.
    Comp 2.94 18 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life?
    Comp 2.95 25 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie.
    Comp 2.98 12 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its moderation with its life.
    Comp 2.100 11 If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe.
    Comp 2.100 17 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame.
    Comp 2.100 18 The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
    Comp 2.101 15 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life;...
    Comp 2.101 25 So do we put our life into every act.
    Comp 2.102 11 Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.
    Comp 2.105 8 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...
    Comp 2.105 16 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life...
    Comp 2.110 1 The Devil is an ass. It is thus written, because it is thus in life.
    Comp 2.110 21 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
    Comp 2.113 7 [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...
    Comp 2.114 13 ...in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    Comp 2.118 26 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    Comp 2.120 25 The soul is not a compensation, but a life.
    Comp 2.122 14 [The soul's] life is a progress, and not a station.
    Comp 2.126 18 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life...
    SL 2.131 3 ...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.132 3 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    SL 2.132 4 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    SL 2.134 6 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    SL 2.135 6 ...our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    SL 2.149 25 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...
    SL 2.153 27 Life alone can impart life;...
    SL 2.154 1 Life alone can impart life;...
    SL 2.161 11 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling...
    SL 2.161 16 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which revises our entire manner of life...
    SL 2.162 6 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting...a life not yet at one.
    SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear... the top and radiance of human life...
    Lov1 2.169 9 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life;...
    Lov1 2.171 7 ...each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured...
    Lov1 2.171 8 ...each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured, as the life of man is not to his imagination.
    Lov1 2.171 13 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
    Lov1 2.171 17 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Lov1 2.172 10 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?
    Lov1 2.175 27 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Lov1 2.179 24 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Lov1 2.183 17 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
    Lov1 2.184 27 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
    Lov1 2.186 14 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Fdsp 2.189 19 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The fountains of my hidden life/ Are through thy friendship fair./
    Fdsp 2.191 21 ...[the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make the sweetness of life.
    Fdsp 2.195 7 ...the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women...
    Fdsp 2.198 9 ...every man passes his life in the search after friendship...
    Fdsp 2.198 24 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains [of friendship] are... not for life.
    Fdsp 2.200 21 The good spirit of our life has no heaven which is the price of rashness.
    Fdsp 2.206 1 [Friendship] is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
    Fdsp 2.206 7 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...
    Prd1 2.222 3 [Prudence] is the outmost action of the inward life.
    Prd1 2.223 23 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else, as health and bodily life, into means.
    Prd1 2.229 14 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.230 8 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life.
    Prd1 2.233 3 The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
    Prd1 2.235 23 How much of human life is lost in waiting!...
    Prd1 2.237 12 He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
    Prd1 2.237 19 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    Prd1 2.240 6 Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
    Prd1 2.240 18 Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be dearer with such companions.
    Hsm1 2.245 24 ...Sophocles will not ask his life...
    Hsm1 2.246 24 Val. But art not grieved nor vexed to leave thy life thus?/
    Hsm1 2.248 27 Life is a festival only to the wise.
    Hsm1 2.249 26 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    Hsm1 2.251 7 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent...of life...
    Hsm1. 2.252 8 [Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life.
    Hsm1 2.253 12 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
    Hsm1 2.255 10 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade.
    Hsm1 2.255 23 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    Hsm1 2.256 5 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    Hsm1 2.258 11 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Hsm1 2.258 18 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not extraordinary.
    OS 2.267 2 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
    OS 2.267 13 We grant that human life is mean...
    OS 2.269 23 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.273 3 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
    OS 2.279 5 As [the soul] is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life.
    OS 2.281 6 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    OS 2.282 10 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
    OS 2.289 24 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    OS 2.290 19 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...and so seek to throw a romantic color over their life.
    OS 2.295 25 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    OS 2.297 9 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    OS 2.297 11 [Man] will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life...
    Cir 2.301 13 Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn;...
    Cir 2.304 1 The life of man is a self-evolving circle...
    Cir 2.304 12 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge and to solidify and hem in the life.
    Cir 2.312 4 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
    Cir 2.315 25 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Cir 2.318 22 That central life is somewhat superior to creation...
    Cir 2.318 25 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...
    Cir 2.320 1 Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
    Cir 2.320 8 Life is a series of surprises.
    Cir 2.321 27 The way of life is wonderful;...
    Int 2.326 27 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought...constitute the circumstance of daily life;...
    Int 2.327 4 ...man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Int 2.327 8 ...any fact in our life...disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Int 2.328 3 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...
    Int 2.333 2 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this? and think there was something divine in his life.
    Int 2.333 24 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    Int 2.334 7 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Int 2.339 3 Truth is our element of life...
    Art1 2.349 27 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/ Whilst upper life the slender rill/ Of human sense doth overfill./
    Art1 2.359 26 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life, household life...
    Art1 2.365 10 The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
    Art1 2.365 17 Life may be lyric or epic...
    Art1 2.366 13 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art...an asylum from the evils of life.
    Art1 2.367 11 [Men] reject life as prosaic...
    Art1 2.367 23 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal...in the functions of life?
    Art1 2.367 26 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.9 21 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.
    Pt1 3.12 7 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    Pt1 3.12 9 Life will no more be a noise;...
    Pt1 3.13 1 I...lead the life of exaggerations as before...
    Pt1 3.13 24 All form is an effect of character; all condition, of the quality of the life;...
    Pt1 3.14 16 Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.
    Pt1 3.15 20 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.
    Pt1 3.16 7 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural, body overflowed by life which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    Pt1 3.20 3 ...life is great, and fascinates and absorbs;...
    Pt1 3.20 27 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.21 1 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.21 7 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form.
    Pt1 3.26 27 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...
    Pt1 3.27 8 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial life;...
    Pt1 3.28 14 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Pt1 3.33 13 On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.
    Pt1 3.37 6 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life...
    Pt1 3.41 18 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...
    Pt1 3.41 21 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet];...
    Exp 3.43 1 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise/...
    Exp 3.45 15 Our life is not so much threatened as our perception.
    Exp 3.46 25 Our life looks trivial...
    Exp 3.50 4 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads...
    Exp 3.51 3 Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
    Exp 3.51 8 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?
    Exp 3.52 21 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.53 21 I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities;...
    Exp 3.57 16 Life is not worth the taking, to do tricks in.
    Exp 3.58 9 Life is not dialectics.
    Exp 3.58 15 Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
    Exp 3.58 19 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Exp 3.59 5 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
    Exp 3.59 11 There are objections to every course of life and action...
    Exp 3.59 16 Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.
    Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
    Exp 3.60 3 Life itself is a mixture of power and form...
    Exp 3.60 10 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Exp 3.61 17 The fine young people despise life...
    Exp 3.62 21 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life...
    Exp 3.63 15 ...we are impatient of so public a life and planet...
    Exp 3.65 9 Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism...
    Exp 3.65 18 ...know that thy life is a flitting state...
    Exp 3.65 23 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.66 8 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find their life no more excellent than that of mechanics or farmers...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Exp 3.67 5 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    Exp 3.67 20 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.
    Exp 3.67 23 Life is a series of surprises...
    Exp 3.69 4 The art of life has a pudency...
    Exp 3.69 18 The results of life are uncalculated and incalculable.
    Exp 3.70 5 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    Exp 3.70 9 The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element.
    Exp 3.70 15 Life has no memory.
    Exp 3.71 1 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope. Life is hereby melted into an expectation or a religion.
    Exp 3.71 12 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Exp 3.72 1 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...young with the life of life...
    Exp 3.72 10 ...I have described life as a flux of moods...
    Exp 3.72 16 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
    Exp 3.73 21 Our life seems not present so much as prospective;...
    Exp 3.73 24 Most of life seems to be mere advertisement of faculty;...
    Exp 3.75 7 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Exp 3.75 9 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Exp 3.78 1 Life will be imaged, but cannot be divided nor doubled.
    Exp 3.81 12 The life of truth is cold and so far mournful;...
    Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life.
    Exp 3.84 12 Life wears to me a visionary face.
    Exp 3.84 16 People disparage knowing and the intellectual life...
    Exp 3.85 20 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
    Chr1 3.90 27 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    Chr1 3.96 26 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    Chr1 3.102 13 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.
    Chr1 3.104 10 ...the rule and hodiurnal life of a good man is benefaction.
    Chr1 3.105 1 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]!
    Chr1 3.105 19 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...
    Chr1 3.108 25 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
    Chr1 3.110 1 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    Chr1 3.111 2 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who...kindled another life in his bosom.
    Chr1 3.111 9 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Chr1 3.113 4 Life goes headlong.
    Mrs1 3.127 2 ...the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere, wherein life is a less troublesome game...
    Mrs1 3.127 5 Manners aim to facilitate life...
    Mrs1 3.129 19 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it is tenacious of life...
    Mrs1 3.130 5 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
    Mrs1 3.139 3 The same discrimination of fit and fair runs out, if with less rigor, into all parts of life.
    Mrs1 3.143 3 Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.
    Mrs1 3.143 14 ...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Mrs1 3.148 20 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on the second reading: it is not warm with life.
    Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force, and astonished me by her amount of life...
    Gts 3.161 23 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Nat2 3.169 10 There are days which occur in this climate...when everything that has life gives sign of satisfaction...
    Nat2 3.170 19 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to...quit our life of solemn trifles.
    Nat2 3.178 26 ...if our own life flowed with the right energy, we should shame the brook.
    Nat2 3.182 18 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
    Nat2 3.182 19 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
    Nat2 3.186 20 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    Nat2 3.188 10 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words. A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.
    Nat2 3.188 19 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe.
    Nat2 3.189 3 Days and nights of fervid life...have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    Nat2 3.191 2 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    Nat2 3.192 5 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    Nat2 3.194 11 We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents...
    Nat2 3.194 22 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.
    Nat2 3.195 21 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    Pol1 3.200 17 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.213 8 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property.
    Pol1 3.216 17 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him...
    Pol1 3.216 23 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    Pol1 3.218 1 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative. That we do, as an apology to others and to ourselves for not reaching the mark of a good and equal life.
    Pol1 3.218 25 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NR 3.223 9 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake,/ And each with novel life his sphere/ Fills for his proper sake./
    NR 3.229 2 Human life and its persons are poor empirical pretensions.
    NR 3.231 10 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life...
    NR 3.231 17 Money, which represents the prose of life...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
    NR 3.240 19 Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?
    NR 3.245 2 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    NR 3.246 13 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
    NR 3.246 20 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses;...
    NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl, a piece of life...
    NR 3.248 22 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet, out of my poverty of life and thought, had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.253 22 ...there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    NER 3.261 27 ...there is no part of society or of life better than any other part.
    NER 3.262 8 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these counters, as well as those?...
    NER 3.270 10 Life must be lived on a higher plane.
    NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    NER 3.276 11 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    NER 3.276 21 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery; they enlarge our life;...
    NER 3.276 23 Dear to us are those who love us;...but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life...
    NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    NER 3.283 5 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    NER 3.285 7 The life of man is the true romance...
    UGM 4.3 12 They who lived with [good men] found life glad and nutritious.
    UGM 4.3 13 Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society [of good men];...
    UGM 4.6 24 [The great man] must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation.
    UGM 4.10 13 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of life.
    UGM 4.10 26 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they ascend into life...
    UGM 4.11 5 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    UGM 4.12 22 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences...
    UGM 4.13 3 We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations.
    UGM 4.15 6 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? We will never more think cheaply of ourselves, or of life.
    UGM 4.20 2 Life is a scale of degrees.
    UGM 4.20 14 ...life is a sincerity.
    UGM 4.24 3 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life...
    UGM 4.32 24 ...life is mnemonical.
    PPh 4.43 14 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trivial and commonplace.
    PPh 4.44 20 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    PPh 4.45 25 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    PPh 4.54 13 In actual life, [admirable souls] are so rare as to be incredible;...
    PPh 4.64 23 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    PPh 4.79 8 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.
    PNR 4.82 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    SwM 4.94 15 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book.
    SwM 4.98 15 This man [Swedenborg]...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    SwM 4.100 13 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to him during his life.
    SwM 4.104 1 ...[Swedenborg's] life was dignified by noblest pictures of the universe.
    SwM 4.110 4 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value...
    SwM 4.119 26 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    SwM 4.122 13 [Swedenborg's religion]...fits every part of life...
    SwM 4.133 3 Swedenborg's system of the world...lacks power to generate life.
    SwM 4.141 22 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    MoS 4.149 8 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails.
    MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings. Hot life is streaming in a single direction.
    MoS 4.154 2 Life is eating us up.
    MoS 4.154 4 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it...
    MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    MoS 4.156 13 [The skeptic says] What is the use of pretending to assurances we have not, respecting the other life?
    MoS 4.157 6 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
    MoS 4.159 13 Let us have a robust, manly life;...
    MoS 4.161 16 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life;...
    MoS 4.161 21 ...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
    MoS 4.162 23 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays], in some former life...
    MoS 4.164 10 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    MoS 4.166 13 [Montaigne]...is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks the more barbarous man is, the better he is.
    MoS 4.166 17 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life...
    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 4.169 21 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so.
    MoS 4.170 7 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    MoS 4.170 12 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life, come to us only because of that thread...
    MoS 4.173 3 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    MoS 4.175 23 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he...will rapidly alternate all opinions in his own life.
    MoS 4.175 24 Our life is March weather...
    MoS 4.175 27 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life...
    MoS 4.177 26 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    MoS 4.178 11 ...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, can detect the child. We are not the less necessitated to dedicate life to them.
    MoS 4.178 19 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    MoS 4.178 20 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    MoS 4.180 6 Is life to be led in a brave or in a cowardly manner?...
    MoS 4.183 18 This faith avails to the whole emergency of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
    MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.
    MoS 4.185 6 The lesson of life is practically to generalize;...
    ShP 4.189 21 The Genius of our life is jealous of individuals...
    ShP 4.190 3 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.190 27 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an economy of power! and what a compensation for the shortness of life!
    ShP 4.206 9 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    ShP 4.209 1 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart,--on life and death...
    ShP 4.209 3 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the prizes of life and the ways whereby we come at them;...
    ShP 4.209 26 What point...of the conduct of life, has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    ShP 4.211 3 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare and his book of life.
    ShP 4.211 5 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life;...
    ShP 4.211 20 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    ShP 4.212 8 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    ShP 4.218 3 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me?
    ShP 4.218 24 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became ghastly, joyless...
    NMW 4.237 1 ...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    NMW 4.247 18 To what heaps of cowardly doubts is not that man's [Napoleon's] life an answer.
    NMW 4.251 4 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about.
    NMW 4.257 17 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    GoW 4.261 3 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    GoW 4.262 10 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life...
    GoW 4.266 20 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.266 25 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    GoW 4.269 13 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls. Every word was true, and woke the nations to new life.
    GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.271 4 We conceive Greek or Roman life, life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    GoW 4.271 6 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    GoW 4.271 14 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted...
    GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life...nestling close beside us...
    GoW 4.276 21 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well initiated in the life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...
    GoW 4.277 25 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    GoW 4.278 5 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with so many...just insights into life and manners and characters;...
    GoW 4.278 7 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many good hints for the conduct of life...
    GoW 4.280 17 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remained [Novalis's] favorite reading to the end of his life.
    GoW 4.286 19 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years, that should be the most active in his life, after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in the high refinement of modern life...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...

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