Life (continued) to Lifetime

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

    ET1 5.4 27 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...with right mother-wit and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET1 5.16 1 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...
    ET2 5.27 15 Watchfulness is the law of the ship,--watch on watch, for advantage and for life.
    ET2 5.30 24 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.
    ET4 5.45 15 [The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life is safe...
    ET4 5.48 24 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
    ET4 5.49 1 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...the island life...
    ET4 5.49 14 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
    ET4 5.59 10 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life...as the Northman.
    ET4 5.63 23 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...and crippled him for life.
    ET4 5.70 11 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.
    ET5 5.79 14 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET5 5.82 15 Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights;...
    ET5 5.97 24 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.
    ET5 5.98 6 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life.
    ET5 5.99 21 [The English] embrace their cause with more tenacity than their life.
    ET6 5.103 21 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET8 5.127 8 [The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
    ET8 5.128 4 ...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable to their digust of life.
    ET8 5.129 23 The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer; so is the country squire, with his narrow and violent life.
    ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET8 5.141 24 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society, namely that private life is the place of honor.
    ET8 5.142 11 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...
    ET10 5.154 3 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET10 5.156 25 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET10 5.157 10 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European; or, his life as a workman is three lives.
    ET10 5.171 2 ...not the aims of a manly life, but the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET11 5.174 24 The things these English have done were not done without peril of life...
    ET11 5.177 17 The national tastes of the English do not lead them to the life of the courtier...
    ET11 5.184 27 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET11 5.187 10 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon;...
    ET11 5.187 22 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    ET11 5.190 7 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.194 6 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up. It requires a life of idleness, dressing and attendance on their parties.
    ET11 5.195 14 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    ET12 5.208 18 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET12 5.209 1 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
    ET13 5.214 6 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...
    ET13 5.214 11 A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET13 5.229 15 Thackeray exposes the heartless high life.
    ET14 5.246 16 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.
    ET14 5.249 2 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
    ET14 5.254 17 ...parochial and shop-till politics, and idolatry of usage, betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    ET14 5.258 18 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    ET18 5.299 14 England is not so public in its bias; private life is its place of honor.
    ET18 5.299 15 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    F 6.3 11 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life.
    F 6.4 24 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    F 6.5 7 Great men, great nations, have...been...perceivers of the terror of life...
    F 6.9 26 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
    F 6.10 14 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
    F 6.12 5 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill...serves to pass the time; the life of sensation going on as before.
    F 6.13 24 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs...
    F 6.15 3 We have two things,-the circumstance, and the life.
    F 6.19 6 These [laws of repression] are...hints of the terms by which our life is walled up...
    F 6.19 24 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.
    F 6.25 15 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    F 6.36 10 The whole circle of animal life...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.36 19 Our life is consentaneous and far-related.
    F 6.38 17 As soon as there is life, there is self-direction...
    F 6.38 19 Life is freedom,-life in the direct ratio of its amount.
    F 6.38 21 Life works both voluntarily and supernaturally in its neighborhood.
    F 6.39 6 ...the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd...
    F 6.41 6 The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it...
    F 6.41 7 Life is an ecstasy.
    F 6.41 14 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
    F 6.49 4 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
    Pow 6.53 12 Life is a search after power;...
    Pow 6.55 4 Courage, the old physicians taught...courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Pow 6.60 5 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Pow 6.60 23 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.69 22 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Pow 6.70 14 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life...
    Pow 6.73 26 The one prudence in life is concentration;...
    Pow 6.80 18 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.93 1 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Wth 6.95 8 The rich take up something more of the world into man's life.
    Wth 6.100 11 Men...believe in magic, in all parts of life.
    Wth 6.101 15 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to us.
    Wth 6.104 11 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the pulpit will betray it, in a laxer rule of life.
    Wth 6.105 25 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Wth 6.112 21 Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life;...
    Wth 6.113 24 Let [the realist] delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life.
    Wth 6.125 26 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of its life...
    Wth 6.126 9 [A man's] body is a jar in which the liquor of life is stored.
    Ctr 6.132 6 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    Ctr 6.135 18 In Boston the question of life is the names of some eight or ten men.
    Ctr 6.136 10 Life is very narrow.
    Ctr 6.141 6 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Ctr 6.143 21 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Ctr 6.148 7 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    Ctr 6.153 12 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    Ctr 6.153 15 You say the gods ought to respect a life whose objects are their own;...
    Ctr 6.156 19 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    Bhr 6.169 6 Life expresses.
    Bhr 6.169 23 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Bhr 6.170 6 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
    Bhr 6.175 22 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life in courts...without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Bhr 6.177 11 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
    Bhr 6.178 4 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Bhr 6.179 6 What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another, through [the eyes]!
    Bhr 6.180 19 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact, such a stream of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes.
    Bhr 6.186 19 ...[some men]...walk through life with a timid step.
    Bhr 6.191 24 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to... treat this part of life more worthily.
    Bhr 6.192 16 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
    Bhr 6.197 5 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Wsp 6.206 12 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...
    Wsp 6.210 22 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Wsp 6.211 7 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it, enough to make him comfortable for life.
    Wsp 6.216 2 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...the life to the year;...
    Wsp 6.219 27 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Wsp 6.224 6 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Wsp 6.226 17 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life... walk with him, step for step...
    Wsp 6.227 6 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    Wsp 6.230 4 How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor in all passages of life and death!
    Wsp 6.230 13 Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me?
    Wsp 6.230 20 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it? Consider only whether it remains in my life the same it was.
    Wsp 6.231 18 The genius of life is friendly to the noble...
    Wsp 6.232 14 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...
    Wsp 6.233 13 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Wsp 6.234 13 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    Wsp 6.235 25 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance, as they did who put their life into their fortune and their company.
    Wsp 6.237 23 Honor him whose life is perpetual victory;...
    Wsp 6.239 27 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    Wsp 6.240 14 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    CbW 6.244 6 A day for toil, an hour for sport,/ But for a friend is life too short./
    CbW 6.245 2 ...life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    CbW 6.246 4 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all. And so is all life a timid and unskilful spectator.
    CbW 6.246 19 What we have...to say of life, is rather description...than available rules.
    CbW 6.246 25 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...
    CbW 6.246 27 We have a debt...to those who have refined life by elegant pursuits.
    CbW 6.247 15 I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.
    CbW 6.247 22 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter together.
    CbW 6.258 17 ...the poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
    CbW 6.260 14 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    CbW 6.261 7 A rich man was never insulted in his life;...
    CbW 6.261 27 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    CbW 6.262 14 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use...
    CbW 6.262 22 Life is a boundless privilege...
    CbW 6.263 3 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    CbW 6.263 9 ...sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of...
    CbW 6.265 23 A man should make life and nature happier to us...
    CbW 6.267 6 ...the high prize of life...is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds [a man] in employment and happiness...
    CbW 6.269 6 ...[conversation] is a main function of life.
    CbW 6.270 20 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent;...
    CbW 6.272 3 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life comparable to it.
    CbW 6.272 20 Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
    CbW 6.273 10 Neither is life long enough for friendship.
    CbW 6.273 20 ...we do not provide for the greatest good of life.
    CbW 6.275 1 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    CbW 6.275 14 Do not make life hard to any.
    CbW 6.275 16 Do not make life hard to any. This point is acquiring new importance in American social life.
    CbW 6.276 16 Life brings to each his task...
    CbW 6.277 2 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted, which nature never pardons. The happy conditions of life may be had on the same terms.
    CbW 6.277 6 How respectable the life that clings to its objects!
    CbW 6.277 8 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick?
    CbW 6.278 19 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...
    Bty 6.282 17 Alchemy, which sought...to prolong life...that was in the right direction.
    Bty 6.287 6 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
    Bty 6.292 4 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only what streams with life...
    Bty 6.297 3 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week, and as often as she showed herself, the crowd was dangerous to life.
    Bty 6.304 23 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
    Ill 6.311 18 Life is an ecstasy.
    Ill 6.311 18 Life is sweet as nitrous oxide;...
    Ill 6.312 14 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details...
    Ill 6.312 25 ...the din of life is never hushed.
    Ill 6.313 11 I find men victims of illusion in all parts of life.
    Ill 6.313 18 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Ill 6.315 17 [The boys'] young life is thatched with [enchantments].
    Ill 6.316 24 I, who have all my life heard any number of orations and debates...am still the victim of any new page;...
    Ill 6.318 14 Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
    Ill 6.321 23 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes.
    Ill 6.322 6 If life seem a succession of dreams, yet poetic justice is done in dreams also.
    Ill 6.322 16 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted from bed to bed, from the nothing of life to the nothing of death.
    Ill 6.323 23 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume; and our life-- the life of all of us--identical.
    Ill 6.324 21 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions.
    Ill 6.324 24 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    SS 7.1 21 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...
    SS 7.9 23 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Civ 7.17 4 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life/...
    Civ 7.32 9 ...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
    Civ 7.33 8 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life.
    Civ 7.33 15 These arts [of invention] add a comfort and smoothness to house and street life;...
    Civ 7.34 4 ...if there be...a country...where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Civ 7.34 8 ...if there be...a country...where the arts, such as they have, are all imported, having no indigenous life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.37 1 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    Art2 7.42 8 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
    Elo1 7.59 14 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Elo1 7.61 3 ...probably every man is eloquent once in his life.
    Elo1 7.70 19 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life...
    Elo1 7.79 18 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go...
    Elo1 7.86 20 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... a piece of the well-known human life,--that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of the moment.
    DL 7.105 21 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.105 26 ...the rain, the ice, the frost, make epochs in [the child's] life.
    DL 7.106 11 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best.
    DL 7.107 15 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room. The subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer.
    DL 7.108 11 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their...their hope in their way of life.
    DL 7.108 25 The history of your fortunes is written first in your life.
    DL 7.118 3 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.121 17 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...
    DL 7.121 21 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    DL 7.122 27 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
    DL 7.123 24 [Every man] observes the swiftness with which life culminates...
    DL 7.124 1 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the crisis of life...
    DL 7.124 5 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    DL 7.125 11 It is a life of toys and trinkets.
    DL 7.125 25 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...
    DL 7.126 6 ...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and true teach us better,--nay, the men themselves suggest a better life.
    DL 7.127 21 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    DL 7.128 14 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth...
    DL 7.129 16 ...he will have learned the lesson of life who is skilful in the ethics of friendship.
    DL 7.129 23 Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life...may well find place [in the household].
    DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    DL 7.133 23 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
    Farm 7.141 2 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    WD 7.158 11 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
    WD 7.158 17 ...so many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over new;...
    WD 7.161 9 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    WD 7.163 19 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    WD 7.164 19 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life...
    WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life...
    WD 7.169 2 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life was then calendared by moments...
    WD 7.172 14 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
    WD 7.172 21 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    WD 7.172 22 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    WD 7.176 16 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all, in the form of the Madonna; and in life, this is the secret of the wise.
    WD 7.176 21 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has...
    WD 7.178 18 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify.
    WD 7.178 20 Life is unnecessarily long.
    WD 7.178 23 Life culminates and concentrates;...
    WD 7.179 1 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    WD 7.179 6 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    WD 7.180 14 ...life is good only when it is magical and musical...
    WD 7.181 8 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the delicious manoeuvre for hours. Well, human life is made up of such transits.
    WD 7.181 20 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.183 8 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic.
    WD 7.183 22 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    Boks 7.190 4 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
    Boks 7.191 1 Go with mean people and you think life is mean.
    Boks 7.193 15 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Boks 7.214 16 ...how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is!
    Boks 7.214 17 Life lies about us dumb;...
    Boks 7.214 19 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    Boks 7.219 17 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
    Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Clbs 7.225 5 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen...
    Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    Clbs 7.228 12 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold, to be worked up at leisure in the useful arts of life,--is a wonderful relief.
    Clbs 7.235 22 The life of Socrates is a propounding and a solution of these [conundrums].
    Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    Clbs 7.236 8 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts. Luther spent his life so;...
    Clbs 7.237 15 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    Clbs 7.245 25 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    Cour 7.253 13 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
    Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
    Cour 7.257 8 ...man begins life helpless.
    Cour 7.257 12 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.267 10 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
    Cour 7.276 20 He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
    Cour 7.277 17 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
    Suc 7.289 19 I could point to men in this country, of indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life of show...
    Suc 7.292 22 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation;...
    Suc 7.295 19 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    Suc 7.297 5 Is all life a surface affair?
    Suc 7.297 23 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
    Suc 7.299 14 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.300 13 ...life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.
    Suc 7.300 17 The hues of sunset make life great;...
    Suc 7.306 2 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high acquaintances.
    Suc 7.308 4 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
    Suc 7.308 5 A man is a man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.
    Suc 7.311 8 There is an external life...
    Suc 7.311 15 ...the inner life sits at home...
    OA 7.315 24 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm;...
    OA 7.316 3 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    OA 7.318 3 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!
    OA 7.320 17 Life is well enough...
    OA 7.320 25 Life and art are cumulative;...
    OA 7.321 14 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    OA 7.321 26 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    OA 7.323 11 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.
    OA 7.324 3 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...
    OA 7.331 22 It must be believed that there is a proportion between the designs of a man and the length of his life...
    OA 7.332 6 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person...
    OA 7.332 23 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life.
    OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    OA 7.336 8 ...the inference from the working of intellect...at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.3 21 ...the universe...is the house of health and life.
    PI 8.9 9 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.9 19 The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life.
    PI 8.10 11 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it,--which is hunting for life in graveyards.
    PI 8.15 15 ...it is the use of life to learn metonymy.
    PI 8.15 27 The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life...
    PI 8.17 6 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which causes it to exist;...
    PI 8.17 17 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.18 12 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious.
    PI 8.28 25 Fancy relates to surface, in which a great part of life lies.
    PI 8.35 3 American life storms about us daily, and is slow to find a tongue.
    PI 8.36 15 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.38 16 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that...the mean life is pictures.
    PI 8.43 19 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    PI 8.48 21 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like to transfer that rhyme to life...
    PI 8.55 7 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./
    PI 8.64 11 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
    PI 8.65 16 Literature warps away from life...
    PI 8.67 16 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    PI 8.68 1 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces, described to the life...
    PI 8.68 18 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    PI 8.68 25 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution...
    PI 8.69 25 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should not be mean;...
    PI 8.69 26 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should be an image in every part beautiful;...
    PI 8.70 3 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    PI 8.73 16 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life.
    PI 8.73 25 In the mire of the sensual life, [poets'] religion, their poets...are hosts of ideals...
    PI 8.75 2 The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
    PI 8.75 6 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to fill the mind...
    PI 8.75 9 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry...
    SA 8.83 5 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him...the joy of life.
    SA 8.83 10 When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins, and life is delicious.
    SA 8.84 20 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    SA 8.85 18 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
    SA 8.89 8 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity and grace, to wear out life with...
    SA 8.89 21 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    SA 8.90 2 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached,--life, love, marriage...
    SA 8.90 7 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
    SA 8.90 9 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment continually varied...
    SA 8.90 19 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.92 10 Our chief want in life,--is it not somebody who can make us do what we can?
    SA 8.99 20 Manners first, then conversation. Later, we see that as life was not in manners, so it is not in talk.
    SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts of life;...
    SA 8.104 22 The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
    SA 8.105 7 No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire makes life sweet and tolerable.
    SA 8.106 15 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression...degrades our household life, we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
    SA 8.107 15 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.114 22 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade...
    Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
    Elo2 8.119 16 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat, which a man attains to perhaps only once in his life.
    Elo2 8.123 25 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Elo2 8.126 3 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    Elo2 8.129 18 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    Res 8.138 5 A philosophy...which says 't is all of no use, life is eating us up...dispirits us;...
    Res 8.138 15 ...if you tell me that there is always life for the living;...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.139 1 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Res 8.141 14 Life is always rapid here [in America]...
    Res 8.151 8 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a low tone...
    Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Comc 8.160 11 [The disparity between the rule and the fact] is the radical joke of life...
    Comc 8.164 4 In all the parts of life, the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    Comc 8.169 17 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Comc 8.170 19 ...in the instance of cowardice or fear of any sort, from the loss of life to the loss of spoons, the majesty of man is violated.
    Comc 8.174 9 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy, which was rapidly consuming his life.
    QO 8.177 6 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction, which constitutes the main business of their life.
    QO 8.177 16 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.188 2 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom...
    QO 8.191 24 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies...He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.
    QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
    QO 8.193 22 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced it.
    QO 8.203 8 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
    QO 8.203 14 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    QO 8.203 27 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    QO 8.204 17 The divine gift is ever the instant life...
    PC 8.208 3 The temper of our people delights in this whirl of life.
    PC 8.208 10 All this activity has added to the value of life [in America]...
    PC 8.209 3 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the insurance of life and limb;...
    PPo 8.237 24 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    PPo 8.238 4 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    PPo 8.238 11 All or nothing is the genius of Oriental life.
    PPo 8.238 18 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    PPo 8.238 24 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes.
    PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy and encouraging an outdoor life, allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    PPo 8.242 22 These legends [of Persian kings], with Chiser, the fountain of life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.243 7 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed in a lively image...were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.245 18 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at headlong speed.
    PPo 8.246 11 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords...
    PPo 8.247 22 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.272 26 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life...
    Insp 8.273 13 ...this quick ebb of power,-as if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand,-tantalizes us.
    Insp 8.274 9 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life...
    Insp 8.274 10 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...withdraw them from the life of trifles and gain and comfort...
    Insp 8.274 23 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves.
    Insp 8.279 15 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us.
    Insp 8.280 1 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
    Insp 8.280 11 Life is in short cycles or periods;...
    Insp 8.280 15 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life;...
    Insp 8.283 8 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
    Insp 8.286 26 If a new view of life or mind gives us joy, so does new arrangement.
    Grts 8.316 15 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Grts 8.319 13 Life is made of illusions...
    Imtl 8.323 4 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.323 19 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped, and we behold it no more. Such is the life of man...
    Imtl 8.324 2 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Imtl 8.324 3 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Imtl 8.324 20 There never was a time when the doctrine of a future life was not held.
    Imtl 8.324 24 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips, or of an easier and more plentiful life after death.
    Imtl 8.324 25 ...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
    Imtl 8.324 27 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
    Imtl 8.325 14 [The Greek] loved life and delighted in beauty.
    Imtl 8.328 21 Don't waste life in doubts and fears;...
    Imtl 8.329 18 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.329 26 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Imtl 8.330 26 The healthy state of mind is the love of life.
    Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
    Imtl 8.332 25 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking. One argument of future life is the recoil of the mind in such company...
    Imtl 8.336 3 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    Imtl 8.337 9 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us...
    Imtl 8.337 11 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...
    Imtl 8.338 20 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Imtl 8.338 26 ...it is the nature of intelligent beings to be forever new to life.
    Imtl 8.339 5 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Imtl 8.339 6 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Imtl 8.340 5 I know not whence we draw the assurance of prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.340 6 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.341 21 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
    Imtl 8.343 13 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought...
    Imtl 8.345 7 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life...
    Imtl 8.345 8 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience, by losing hold of life...
    Imtl 8.347 11 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
    Imtl 8.347 16 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state. It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    Imtl 8.350 15 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.
    Dem1 10.8 13 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Dem1 10.9 23 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.11 9 All life, all creation, is telltale and betraying.
    Dem1 10.12 12 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    Dem1 10.15 5 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life?
    Dem1 10.18 13 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual. In the course of my life I have been able to observe several such...
    Dem1 10.20 12 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation. Life is also a dream on the same terms.
    Dem1 10.25 25 Mesmerism is high life below stairs;...
    Dem1 10.27 26 [Man] is sure...the circumambient soul which flows into him as into all, and is his life, has not been searched.
    Aris 10.37 9 ...[the common man's] whole life is a hurry.
    Aris 10.37 20 ...we dislike every mark of a superficial life and action...
    Aris 10.37 21 ...we...prize whatever mark of a central life.
    Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive...ready to answer for their actions with their life.
    Aris 10.43 21 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture...
    Aris 10.48 7 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    Aris 10.49 5 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
    Aris 10.55 19 If you deal with the vulgar, life is reduced to beggary indeed.
    Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone. Life is thus a Beggar' s Bush.
    Aris 10.59 25 The youth, having got through the first thickets that oppose his entrance into life...is left to himself...
    Aris 10.65 6 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    Aris 10.66 6 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...
    PerF 10.69 14 Art is long, and life short...
    PerF 10.72 4 When life is less here, it spawns there.
    PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had...
    PerF 10.81 15 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    PerF 10.81 21 See how rich life is; rich in private talents...
    PerF 10.87 6 Fear disenchants life and the world.
    PerF 10.87 14 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    PerF 10.87 17 The illusion that strikes me as the masterpiece in that ring of illusions which our life is, is the timidity with which we assert our moral sentiment.
    Chr2 10.91 24 [The man] has his life in Nature...
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.96 9 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Chr2 10.96 13 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life for the sake of a truth...
    Chr2 10.101 16 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.
    Chr2 10.102 4 The world would run into endless routine, and forms incrust forms, till the life was gone.
    Chr2 10.102 5 ...the perpetual supply of new genius shocks us with thrills of life...
    Chr2 10.110 8 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
    Chr2 10.120 3 [Character] carries a superiority to all the accidents of life.
    Chr2 10.121 23 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Chr2 10.122 14 [Character]...does not ask, in the absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
    Edc1 10.123 4 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.128 13 The household is a school of power. Here, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    Edc1 10.131 16 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself...
    Edc1 10.132 15 We learn nothing rightly until we learn the symbolical character of life.
    Edc1 10.132 25 We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy;...
    Edc1 10.133 9 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour.
    Edc1 10.135 7 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    Edc1 10.137 11 The charm of life is this variety of genius...
    Edc1 10.138 2 Cannot we let people...enjoy life in their own way?
    Edc1 10.140 1 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Edc1 10.142 9 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born deaf and dumb, and dedicated to a narrow and lonely life.
    Edc1 10.144 25 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    Edc1 10.151 15 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Edc1 10.154 13 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Edc1 10.155 4 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    Edc1 10.158 27 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    Supl 10.163 16 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life...
    Supl 10.164 26 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw; I never in my life!
    Supl 10.165 17 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    Supl 10.166 16 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    Supl 10.168 3 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
    Supl 10.175 23 Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good earnest;...
    SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of Nature-chemistry, vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    SovE 10.185 12 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe. In the measure in which he has this sense he...rises to the universal life.
    SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.187 22 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.188 19 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...making better life possible.
    SovE 10.193 15 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled and the life of society threatened...
    SovE 10.193 25 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...
    SovE 10.194 9 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]... that these passages of daily life are his work;...
    SovE 10.198 10 Life is always rich...
    SovE 10.198 25 ...it is...our negligence...of these world-embracing sentiments, that makes religion cold and life low.
    SovE 10.200 26 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    SovE 10.201 2 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust wonder...
    SovE 10.201 10 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. You cannot bring yourself to care for it. You say: Cut away; my tree is Ygdrasil-the tree of life.
    SovE 10.204 15 ...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.
    SovE 10.208 18 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend...
    SovE 10.210 23 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous...
    SovE 10.214 4 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Prch 10.216 2 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,-life passed through the fire of thought.
    Prch 10.219 1 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    Prch 10.220 25 ...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 would gladly recall the life that so offended us;...
    Prch 10.223 10 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    Prch 10.225 8 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    Prch 10.225 14 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment and in every condition of life to do the duty of that moment...
    Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...
    Prch 10.232 12 ...these [day's events] are fair tests to try our doctrines by, and see if they are worth anything in life.
    Prch 10.235 15 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    Prch 10.236 18 The calmest and most protected life cannot save us.
    Prch 10.236 20 We want some intercalated days, to bethink us and to derive order to our life from the heart.
    Prch 10.237 21 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life has no caprice or fortune...
    MoL 10.241 19 ...[the scholar] has drawn the white lot in life.
    MoL 10.245 14 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
    MoL 10.252 27 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering.
    Schr 10.261 14 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.
    Schr 10.263 5 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    Schr 10.263 17 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...out of the obscurities of barbarous life...
    Schr 10.264 13 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered, not by the cares of life...but by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    Schr 10.264 25 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
    Schr 10.265 2 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.
    Schr 10.268 1 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical.
    Schr 10.272 17 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society?
    Schr 10.274 25 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    Schr 10.274 26 It is the corruption of our generation that men...do not esteem life simply as a means of expressing a sentiment.
    Schr 10.275 5 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Schr 10.280 27 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense, and do not qualify them for any complete life of a better kind.
    Schr 10.282 13 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.
    Schr 10.282 22 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life.
    Schr 10.283 8 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does, a certain dumb life in life;...
    Schr 10.284 16 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you see tendency in your life?
    Schr 10.284 20 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!
    Plu 10.293 5 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...no accurate memoir of his life, not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    Plu 10.298 25 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    Plu 10.300 18 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
    Plu 10.305 1 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.
    Plu 10.311 5 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his rule of life...
    LLNE 10.328 8 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...
    LLNE 10.337 5 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.338 17 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life...
    LLNE 10.338 24 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law; in science, in politics, in social life;...
    LLNE 10.340 8 A poor little invalid all his life, [Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    LLNE 10.344 18 [Theodore Parker] used every day and hour of his short life...
    LLNE 10.352 16 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...
    LLNE 10.353 4 ...what is true and good must not only be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
    LLNE 10.353 5 ...what is true and good must not only be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
    LLNE 10.361 12 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    LLNE 10.363 9 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life;...
    LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...
    LLNE 10.365 7 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.
    LLNE 10.369 9 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the honesty of a life of labor...
    LLNE 10.369 10 [Brook Farm] was a close union...assembled there by a sentiment which all shared...of the beauty of a life of humanity.
    LLNE 10.369 16 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    CSC 10.375 24 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was life...
    EzRy 10.392 27 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
    EzRy 10.395 9 ...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were consistent.
    MMEm 10.399 3 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    MMEm 10.399 3 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...
    MMEm 10.402 24 What a subject is [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind and life for the finest novel!
    MMEm 10.403 26 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life.
    MMEm 10.404 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
    MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
    MMEm 10.416 15 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.
    MMEm 10.416 21 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
    MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.
    MMEm 10.419 21 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life...
    MMEm 10.423 15 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing (of whose love of life I am ashamed), what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.425 1 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    MMEm 10.426 12 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life!
    MMEm 10.427 1 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    SlHr 10.438 7 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that he was old, and his life was not worth much...
    SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life.
    SlHr 10.440 25 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...
    SlHr 10.444 6 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man of public life...
    SlHr 10.444 10 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    SlHr 10.445 8 These tactics of the lawyer were the tactics of [Samuel Hoar' s] life.
    SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    Thor 10.455 11 [Thoreau]...never had a vice in his life.
    Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study.
    Thor 10.464 9 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Thor 10.464 24 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    Thor 10.470 26 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
    Thor 10.471 1 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    Thor 10.475 25 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    Thor 10.477 10 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    Thor 10.480 14 Had [Thoreau's] genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life...
    Thor 10.485 6 ...[Thoreau] had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world;...
    Carl 10.496 2 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
    GSt 10.501 19 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man...of pure life;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics... engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private life, girt with family ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    GSt 10.506 23 It is sad that such a life [as George Stearns's] should end prematurely;...
    LS 11.10 20 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
    LS 11.11 2 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    LS 11.15 8 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples, during the life and after the ascension of Christ, to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    LS 11.18 10 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may...add one moment to your life,-do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...its deep interior life...
    LS 11.21 25 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    LS 11.22 20 The Jewish was a religion of forms; it was all body, it had no life...
    LS 11.22 23 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that only that life was religious which was thoroughly good;...
    LS 11.22 27 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now, with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.30 2 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    HDC 11.30 12 In the country...the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
    HDC 11.36 2 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    HDC 11.37 14 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.56 11 We have among us excess and pride of life [says Peter Bulkeley];...
    HDC 11.68 20 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    HDC 11.86 8 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided. But even more sacred influences than these have mingled here with the stream of human life.
    HDC 11.86 17 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons, who walked meekly through the paths of common life...
    LVB 11.88 4 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...
    EWI 11.98 7 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
    EWI 11.130 20 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too...as it happened, very dear to him, as having saved his own life, working chained in the streets of that city...
    War 11.153 27 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    War 11.155 3 Nature implants with life the instinct of self-help...
    War 11.155 8 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    War 11.159 17 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he...ordered a pension of eight livres a day to be paid him during life.
    War 11.171 26 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible, with goods, health and life, for his behavior;...
    War 11.173 1 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue.
    War 11.174 13 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand...
    War 11.174 16 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero...but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life;...
    FSLC 11.179 16 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLC 11.181 8 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    FSLC 11.181 27 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
    FSLC 11.182 7 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law], and the value of life is reduced.
    FSLC 11.187 15 A man's right to liberty is as inalienable as his right to life.
    FSLC 11.189 1 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life...
    FSLC 11.189 12 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life...
    FSLN 11.218 9 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
    FSLN 11.219 1 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.
    FSLN 11.219 9 I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
    FSLN 11.219 10 [the Fugitive Slave Law] cost [Webster] his life...
    FSLN 11.224 4 ...there is...not an observation on life and manners...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    FSLN 11.226 24 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    FSLN 11.228 19 I said I had never in my life up to this time suffered from the Slave Institution.
    AsSu 11.247 8 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.
    AsSu 11.247 13 In [the slave state], life is a fever;...
    AsSu 11.247 20 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which is of small value to themselves or to others.
    AsSu 11.248 3 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole country...
    AsSu 11.248 6 Life and life are incommensurate.
    AsSu 11.248 12 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
    AsSu 11.252 4 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe.
    JBB 11.272 5 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant not a criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    JBS 11.278 11 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life...
    JBS 11.279 9 Our farmers...had learned that life was a preparation...for a higher world...
    TPar 11.284 5 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
    ACiv 11.299 22 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    EPro 11.318 19 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes life mean...
    EPro 11.318 19 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
    ALin 11.336 27 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    HCom 11.342 15 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent.
    SMC 11.348 12 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    SMC 11.351 17 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.369 1 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared...
    SMC 11.371 14 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    EdAd 11.386 2 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
    Wom 11.407 8 The life of the affections is primary to [women]...
    Wom 11.407 19 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us...
    Wom 11.409 7 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Wom 11.409 19 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to be despised...
    Wom 11.409 23 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating life with manners...
    Wom 11.410 11 ...[Women] are always making...that ornamental life in which they best appear.
    Wom 11.412 23 Beautiful is the passion of love, painter and adorner of youth and early life...
    SHC 11.428 24 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    SHC 11.430 12 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    SHC 11.431 10 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...
    SHC 11.432 3 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life.
    SHC 11.434 16 ...when I think of the mystery of life...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    SHC 11.436 16 Life is not long enough for art...
    RBur 11.440 15 [Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence, and resting as it should on a life of labor.
    RBur 11.441 15 [Burns] has given voice to all the experiences of common life;...
    RBur 11.442 11 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    Shak1 11.446 4 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    Shak1 11.449 3 ...Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    Shak1 11.449 14 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition, or say... what life he led;...
    Shak1 11.450 23 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    Scot 11.466 14 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Meg Merrilies, and Jenny Rintherouts, full of life and reality;...
    Scot 11.467 17 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company...
    ChiE 11.473 24 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    CPL 11.501 10 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.
    CPL 11.502 24 ...it is our own state of mind at any time that makes our estimate of life and the world.
    CPL 11.503 3 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
    CPL 11.503 21 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man,-has decided his way of life.
    CPL 11.504 10 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    CPL 11.505 5 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life...
    CPL 11.506 20 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...
    CPL 11.506 22 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers, whose embalmed life is the highest feat of art;...
    FRep 11.514 2 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.520 6 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party. 'T is odious, these offenders in high life.
    FRep 11.533 20 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...
    FRep 11.533 26 Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill us.
    FRep 11.534 9 We lose our invention and descend into imitation. A man no longer conducts his own life.
    FRep 11.536 3 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life;...
    NHI 12.1 4 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.4 3 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...intellect, morals and social life;-laws of the world?
    PLT 12.10 13 What is life but the angle of vision?
    PLT 12.10 15 What is life but what a man is thinking of all day?
    PLT 12.13 8 Metaphysics must be perpetually reinforced by life;...
    PLT 12.15 25 What but thought deepens life...
    PLT 12.16 12 Who are we, and what is Nature, have one answer in the life that rushes into us.
    PLT 12.18 6 Life is incessant parturition.
    PLT 12.21 13 The life of the All must stream through us to make the man and the moment great.
    PLT 12.31 5 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society, for of course they cannot affirm these from the deep life;...
    PLT 12.37 1 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.
    PLT 12.38 8 In so far as we see [spiritual facts] we share their life and sovereignty.
    PLT 12.39 22 [The intellectual man] not only wishes to succeed in life, but he wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    PLT 12.43 1 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    PLT 12.50 2 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.
    PLT 12.50 3 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one. Life had not yet so fierce a glow.
    PLT 12.52 16 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
    PLT 12.54 8 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others. For it is so in life.
    PLT 12.54 25 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution.
    PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human life.
    PLT 12.56 8 There are two theories of life; one for the demonstration of our talent, the other for the education of the man.
    PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...of sluggish animal life;...
    PLT 12.60 13 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    PLT 12.64 4 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae. Yet the charm of life is the hints we derive from this.
    II 12.65 23 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed and revealed the dusky landscape of his life.
    II 12.67 8 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...
    II 12.74 15 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    II 12.77 1 ...our thoughts have a life of their own...
    II 12.83 22 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some failure.
    II 12.83 22 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some failure. Life is not quite desirable to themselves.
    II 12.83 25 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
    II 12.83 26 We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a kind of hibernation...
    II 12.84 3 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life.
    II 12.84 12 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step, and life requires too much compromise.
    II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    II 12.86 3 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor...
    II 12.86 14 ...the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
    II 12.87 26 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    II 12.89 5 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    Mem 12.90 7 Without [memory] all life and thought were an unrelated succession.
    Mem 12.90 15 The lowest life remembers.
    Mem 12.91 10 Memory...gives continuity and dignity to human life.
    Mem 12.92 26 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life;...
    Mem 12.93 6 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
    Mem 12.94 19 Late in life we live by memory...
    Mem 12.97 5 ...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together has its own vagaries and interruptions.
    Mem 12.103 26 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life...
    Mem 12.104 7 In low or bad company you...recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    Mem 12.108 19 The divine is the instant life that receives and uses...
    Mem 12.108 20 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.
    Mem 12.108 24 The acceleration of mental process is equivalent to the lengthening of life.
    CInt 12.120 23 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates, out of those who begun life with you...
    CInt 12.123 2 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends, to daily life in house and street.
    CInt 12.130 17 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find life enhanced...
    CL 12.136 4 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    CL 12.136 14 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
    CL 12.141 3 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
    CL 12.151 18 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;... and the immensity of life seems to make the world deep and wide.
    CL 12.154 3 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life...
    CL 12.161 4 ...Goethe, whose whole life was a study of the theory of art, said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
    CW 12.175 6 ...'t is worth remarking, what a man may go through life without knowing, that a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
    Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    Bost 12.194 7 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture- not so much a culture as a higher life-they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.209 10 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    MAng1 12.215 5 [Michelangelo] lived one life; he pursued one career.
    MAng1 12.215 14 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    MAng1 12.215 24 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life...
    MAng1 12.217 7 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    MAng1 12.217 10 In considering a life dedicated to the study of Beauty, it is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
    MAng1 12.220 1 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
    MAng1 12.231 15 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...only hindered by the limits of life from fulfilling his designs?
    MAng1 12.232 16 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    MAng1 12.234 3 The sublimity of [Michelangelo's] art is in his life.
    MAng1 12.241 26 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him he is at the end of his life...
    MAng1 12.242 7 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    Milt1 12.247 6 ...new editions of [Milton's] works, and new compilations of his life, were published.
    Milt1 12.254 19 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man...
    Milt1 12.255 27 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
    Milt1 12.256 3 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him, to be realized in the life and conversation of men, inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    Milt1 12.260 4 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    Milt1 12.263 10 [Milton] tells us...that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    Milt1 12.265 19 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest...in whatsoever savored of generosity and nobleness. This magnanimity shines in all his life.
    Milt1 12.270 27 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    Milt1 12.273 7 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...
    Milt1 12.275 5 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...
    Milt1 12.276 19 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    Milt1 12.276 25 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    Milt1 12.277 2 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life...
    Milt1 12.278 23 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.
    Milt1 12.279 9 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored, in his writings and in his life, to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    Milt1 12.279 9 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    ACri 12.284 10 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...
    ACri 12.293 1 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...balance for remainder-spent the balance of his life;...
    ACri 12.304 5 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    MLit 12.309 10 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune...of these humble Junes and Decembers of mortal life.
    MLit 12.309 21 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.310 1 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand, life is made up of them.
    MLit 12.310 26 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents books...that seem to heave with the life of millions...
    MLit 12.314 4 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and nothing else.
    MLit 12.314 16 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism.
    MLit 12.317 14 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
    MLit 12.318 4 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...
    MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life nourished on absolute beatitudes...
    MLit 12.326 27 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life...
    MLit 12.327 23 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    MLit 12.329 22 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...
    MLit 12.330 17 ...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's, [Wilhelm Meister] is rammed with life.
    MLit 12.331 16 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature.
    MLit 12.332 16 Life for [Goethe] is prettier, easier, wiser, decenter...but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...
    MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    MLit 12.334 9 The very depth of the sentiment, which is the author of all the cutaneous life we see, is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
    MLit 12.335 25 [The Genius of the time] will describe the new heroic life of man...
    WSL 12.340 20 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an industrious observation in every department of life...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.342 11 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...
    WSL 12.342 16 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.
    Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    Pray 12.353 8 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.
    Pray 12.353 9 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.
    Pray 12.354 15 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    EurB 12.367 17 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    EurB 12.368 23 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    EurB 12.369 5 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
    EurB 12.369 21 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.
    EurB 12.370 13 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
    EurB 12.377 11 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
    Let 12.394 5 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
    Let 12.395 13 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life...
    Let 12.395 24 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.401 10 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...
    Let 12.401 23 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...
    Let 12.402 25 ...speculation is no succedaneum for life.
    Let 12.403 24 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...
    Let 12.404 19 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...
    Let 12.404 26 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Trag 12.406 16 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.
    Trag 12.406 22 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
    Trag 12.411 10 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy, any more than seasickness, which may also destroy life.
    Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...
    Trag 12.412 18 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is an equilibrium...
    Trag 12.412 22 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands. Society asks this, and truth, and love, and the genius of our life.
    Trag 12.413 7 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.
    Trag 12.413 16 ...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.
    Trag 12.413 17 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...
    Trag 12.416 18 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me...
    Trag 12.416 25 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy...

Life, n. (5)

    MN 1.204 13 ...there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    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;...
    Pt1 3.19 24 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...
    LLNE 10.352 9 Our feeling was that Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely Life.
    CPL 11.499 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...

Life of Alfred the Great [ (1)

    Boks 7.206 24 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred...

Life of Dante [Giovanni Bo (1)

    Boks 7.205 25 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.

Life of Goethe, n. (1)

    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...

Life of Johnson [James Bos (1)

    Boks 7.208 19 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Boswell's Life of Johnson;...

Life of Joseph Brant... [W (1)

    SL 2.164 20 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant.

Life of Man, Doctrine of th (1)

    MLit 12.333 26 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.

Life of Michelangelo [Giorg (1)

    Boks 7.206 4 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read, with his Life by Vasari, or, in our day, by Hermann Grimm.

Life of Northcote [William (1)

    Boks 7.208 21 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Hazlitt's Life of Northcote.

Life of P. B. Shelley [Th (1)

    ET4 5.63 19 in the Life of Shelley,

Life of Pythagoras [Jamblic (1)

    Boks 7.203 18 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...

Life of Sir Robert Peel [ (1)

    ET10 5.158 14 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...

Life of...Charles V [W. R (1)

    Boks 7.206 9 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.

Life, Poetry and Truth out (1)

    GoW 4.285 22 [Goethe's] autobiography, under the title of Poetry and Truth out of my Life, is the expression of the idea...that a man exists for culture;...

Life, Tree of, n. (2)

    PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
    PPo 8.256 9 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./

life-assurance, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.512 12 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages; the life-assurance, its table of annuities.

life-blood, n. (2)

    ET10 5.164 10 [English property] is felt and treated as the national life-blood.
    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?

life-everlasting, n. (1)

    Thor 10.481 16 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily,-then, the gentian, and the Mikania scandens, and life-everlasting...

Life-Everlasting, n. (1)

    Thor 10.484 9 There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...

life-giving, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.248 3 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious; yet so near to the modern mind as to be still alive and life-giving.

Life-Guards, n. (1)

    ET8 5.131 15 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...

lifeless, adj. (6)

    Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Exp 3.62 19 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...
    Gts 3.161 21 ...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.
    Wth 6.83 3 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    TPar 11.287 15 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    HCom 11.340 21 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

lifelike, adj. (1)

    Int 2.337 27 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is lifelike...

lifelong, adj. [life-long,] (5)

    ET6 5.110 5 Terms of service and partnership [in England] are lifelong, or are inherited.
    ET13 5.219 7 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by name; and this lifelong consecration cannot be without influence on his opinions.
    CbW 6.253 1 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Bacon, with life-long dissimulation;...
    LLNE 10.368 24 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
    SlHr 10.448 22 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.

life-preserver, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.232 17 Every man's task is his life-preserver.

life's, n. (11)

    SR 2.83 8 Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;...
    Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    CbW 6.274 16 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    PPo 8.255 12 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    MMEm 10.397 9 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    HCom 11.340 8 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    Mem 12.109 10 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    Milt1 12.267 17 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    WSL 12.345 17 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...

lifetime, n. [life-time,] (18)

    Comp 2.117 9 Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
    SL 2.161 21 This revisal or correction is a constant force, which, as a tendency, reaches through our lifetime.
    Cir 2.301 8 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Pt1 3.38 24 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them; not the artist himself for years, or for a lifetime, unless he come into the conditions.
    Pt1 3.41 3 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.45 12 Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes...
    Exp 3.52 9 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.83 21 The effect is deep and secular as the cause. It works on periods in which mortal lifetime is lost.
    Mrs1 3.148 25 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    NR 3.231 24 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with the compensations) in the individual also.
    UGM 4.16 9 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...
    ET14 5.238 25 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    Elo2 8.132 1 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
    Dem1 10.3 5 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    LS 11.14 16 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    FSLC 11.197 17 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.
    FSLN 11.219 23 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions, they had no memory for what they had been saying like the Lord's Prayer all their lifetime...
    Milt1 12.248 15 In his lifetime, [Milton] was little or not at all known as a poet...

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