Lift to Lind's

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

lift, n. (1)

    Grts 8.303 9 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.

lift, v. (39)

    Nat 1.33 7 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest...
    LE 1.172 5 ...a profound thought will lift Olympus.
    MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head?
    SL 2.153 7 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    NER 3.266 26 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    ET8 5.139 11 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    ET13 5.214 23 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    F 6.12 22 It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.33 19 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof...
    F 6.33 24 Could [steam] lift pots and roofs and houses so handily?
    F 6.33 27 [Steam] could be used to lift away...other devils far more reluctant...
    Wth 6.102 2 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight.
    CbW 6.243 10 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See thou lift the lightest load./
    Bty 6.303 20 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality.
    Ill 6.317 13 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
    Art2 7.42 15 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Elo1 7.94 19 If you would lift me you must be on higher ground.
    DL 7.112 1 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous. We need all the force of an idea to lift this load...
    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.
    PI 8.2 2 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/...
    PI 8.68 16 The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as to lift us...
    PI 8.73 18 [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. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor...
    Res 8.139 14 Is there any load which water cannot lift?
    Res 8.140 24 By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift;...
    QO 8.193 3 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    PC 8.220 22 ...[the true man] is the only great event, and it is easy to lift him into a mythological personage.
    Insp 8.280 14 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life;...
    Aris 10.36 14 Forever and ever it takes a pound to lift a pound.
    SovE 10.210 25 ...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, and that he should like to lift it a little...
    Plu 10.307 9 These men [who revere the spiritual power] lift themselves at once from the vulgar and are not the parasites of wealth.
    LLNE 10.360 23 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt to lift others with themselves...
    MMEm 10.406 10 ...lift your aims...
    HDC 11.34 16 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    EPro 11.314 3 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
    SMC 11.355 6 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.
    PLT 12.10 6 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe, cannot arrive at this.
    CInt 12.126 14 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    MLit 12.327 24 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.
    Pray 12.352 21 ...O my Father...I can lift up my desires to thee...

lifted, v. (24)

    Nat 1.51 26 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    LT 1.276 16 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    Exp 3.47 9 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted;...
    NR 3.225 22 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    NER 3.277 8 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform...
    SwM 4.109 7 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior...
    ET15 5.263 27 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.
    Ill 6.322 15 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...
    Art2 7.49 20 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
    PI 8.49 20 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    PI 8.70 20 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    Elo2 8.132 11 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    PC 8.216 4 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
    Insp 8.277 11 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Imtl 8.325 16 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    PerF 10.71 13 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
    Chr2 10.122 11 [Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement lifted higher in the scale of being.
    LLNE 10.339 16 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
    HDC 11.39 1 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.
    War 11.159 11 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.
    EPro 11.321 16 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor, this heavy load lifted off the national heart, we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    HCom 11.341 22 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.
    Bost 12.198 21 By this [religious] instinct we are lifted to higher ground.
    MLit 12.330 26 We are never lifted above ourselves [in Wilhelm Meister]...

liftedst, v. (1)

    Pray 12.356 27 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou liftedst me up that I might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as to see.

lifteth, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 5 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, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...

lifting, v. (8)

    SL 2.155 13 ...now, every thing [the great man] did, even to the lifting of his finger...looks large...
    F 6.21 8 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low...
    WD 7.176 18 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    PC 8.205 2 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    SMC 11.376 3 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good, lifting private sacrifice to the sublime, that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    PLT 12.43 5 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    MLit 12.328 2 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.

lifts, v. (22)

    Con 1.300 24 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    MoS 4.175 14 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy, and lifts himself to a more absolute reliance.
    ShP 4.213 4 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort...
    ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    ET12 5.207 9 The English nature takes culture kindly. So Milton thought. It refines the Norseman. Access to the Greek mind lifts his standard of taste.
    ET14 5.246 2 ...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the greatness of Shakspeare...
    Bhr 6.197 23 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself. But nature lifts her easily and without knowing it over these impossibilities...
    Bty 6.288 12 ...the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
    Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    DL 7.103 15 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    Clbs 7.229 17 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain: thoughts, fancies, humors flow; the cloud lifts;...
    Clbs 7.250 16 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    PI 8.38 4 A poet comes who lifts the veil;...
    Elo2 8.113 15 ...[the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
    PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic surroundings...
    MMEm 10.425 3 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...
    SMC 11.354 1 [A principle] lifts every population to an equal power and merit.
    CPL 11.501 25 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    PLT 12.40 4 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    Trag 12.414 17 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

ligaments, n. (2)

    WD 7.179 22 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments concealed from all but piety...
    LLNE 10.327 1 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.

ligature, n. (2)

    ET6 5.108 9 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature...
    Boks 7.211 13 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.

light, adj. (19)

    Chr1 3.107 20 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets...
    NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
    MoS 4.174 4 The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.
    NMW 4.235 1 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.
    GoW 4.278 11 Lovers of light reading, those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    ET8 5.134 24 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET9 5.148 15 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Wth 6.102 5 In the city...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    Wth 6.102 9 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble;...
    Ctr 6.145 6 For the most part, only the light characters travel.
    Ctr 6.146 10 ...if the man is of a light and social turn...we must follow [nature's] hint...
    CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
    CbW 6.266 18 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...
    Res 8.150 13 In England men of letters drink wine;...in France, light wines;...
    Insp 8.268 1 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Prch 10.233 25 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion...
    Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    HDC 11.56 9 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances; but now ordinances are light matters with us;...

light, n. (290)

    Nat 1.15 12 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    Nat 1.15 18 ...light is the first of painters.
    Nat 1.15 19 There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.
    Nat 1.17 6 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    Nat 1.19 16 ...[the moon] will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
    Nat 1.23 16 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Nat 1.26 22 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.
    Nat 1.31 16 [Nature's] light flows into the mind evermore...
    Nat 1.34 11 ...the light of higher laws than [the universe's] own shines through it.
    Nat 1.44 7 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Nat 1.44 9 ...the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
    Nat 1.60 1 ...seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal;...
    Nat 1.69 12 Music and light attend our head./
    Nat 1.72 25 ...in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light...
    Nat 1.74 14 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    Nat 1.74 20 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations and see it in the light of thought, shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    Nat 1.75 6 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels.
    AmS 1.82 15 Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on [the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
    AmS 1.86 21 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.91 2 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light...and a fatal disservice is done.
    AmS 1.106 11 [Man] has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives.
    AmS 1.107 6 [The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's light...
    AmS 1.108 21 [The universal mind] is one light which beams out of a thousand stars.
    AmS 1.111 25 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.121 17 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light...
    DSA 1.137 5 The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns...
    DSA 1.139 1 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment, that can lend a faint tint of light to dulness...coming in its name...
    DSA 1.147 1 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    LE 1.171 16 ...Truth is...as bad to catch as light.
    LE 1.171 18 Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain;...
    LE 1.183 13 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...nowise emitting a continuous stream of light...
    LE 1.186 15 Be content with a little light, so it be your own.
    LE 1.187 7 Thought is all light...
    MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    MN 1.203 12 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    MN 1.208 5 ...in [a man] is the light...
    MN 1.221 2 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea, and be ourselves the children of the light.
    MN 1.222 23 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    MN 1.223 8 I praise with wonder this great reality, which seems to drown all things in the deluge of its light.
    MR 1.229 21 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    LT 1.267 10 Slowly, like light of morning, it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants are now society...
    LT 1.267 16 We...stand in the light of Ideas...
    LT 1.269 21 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.276 2 These reforms...are ourselves; our own light, and sight, and conscience;...
    LT 1.279 12 The great majority of men, unable to judge of any principle until its light falls on a fact, are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    LT 1.284 16 [Ennui]...bereaves the day of its light.
    LT 1.287 24 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is...the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are? and Whither we tend?
    LT 1.290 25 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity, when we who were named by our names flitted across the light, we were afraid of any fact...
    Tran 1.329 5 The light is always identical in its composition...
    Tran 1.335 24 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...
    YA 1.385 9 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them;...
    Hist 2.4 14 ...the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant...
    Hist 2.4 22 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    Hist 2.6 8 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day...
    Hist 2.18 20 The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
    Hist 2.33 6 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    Hist 2.37 16 Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?...
    Hist 2.38 12 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Hist 2.40 6 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
    Hist 2.41 3 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.43 3 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate;/...
    SR 2.45 19 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
    SR 2.59 24 [Previous victories] shed a united light on the advancing actor.
    SR 2.64 13 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse...from light...
    SR 2.66 2 It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
    SR 2.66 24 ...the soul is light...
    SR 2.80 12 It must be somehow that you stole the light from us.
    SR 2.80 13 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that light...will break into any cabin...
    SR 2.80 19 ...the immortal light...will beam over the universe...
    Comp 2.96 17 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light;...
    Comp 2.99 22 With every influx of light comes new danger.
    Comp 2.99 23 Has [the man of genius] light? he must bear witness to the light...
    Comp 2.105 5 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get...a light without a shadow.
    Comp 2.115 13 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the laws of light and darkness...
    SL 2.131 3 ...when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.147 27 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl. These are like the stars whose light has not yet reached us.
    SL 2.155 2 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    SL 2.155 4 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor; the light of the public square will test its value.
    SL 2.159 4 What [a man] is engraves itself...on his fortunes, in letters of light.
    SL 2.160 27 Shine with real light and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts.
    Lov1 2.169 7 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.175 6 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made the face of nature radiant with purple light...
    Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun...
    Lov1 2.183 22 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like...the light proceeding from an orb.
    Fdsp 2.211 1 The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    Fdsp 2.215 10 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them receding into the sky in which now they are only a patch of brighter light.
    Prd1 2.233 9 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    OS 2.270 20 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a faculty, but a light;...
    OS 2.270 25 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things...
    OS 2.270 27 From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
    OS 2.282 3 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
    OS 2.285 5 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    OS 2.288 9 ...[scholars and authors] have a light and know not whence it comes...
    OS 2.290 27 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become...bibulous of the sea of light.
    OS 2.296 15 [The soul] calls the light its own...
    Cir 2.310 23 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Cir 2.313 10 Cleansed by the elemental light and wind...we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Cir 2.314 25 The same law of eternal procession...extinguishes each [virtue] in the light of a better.
    Cir 2.320 5 No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
    Int 2.326 11 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science...
    Int 2.327 24 Out of darkness [the mind] came insensibly into the marvelous light of to-day.
    Int 2.332 3 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
    Int 2.334 2 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...
    Int 2.334 9 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    Int 2.335 22 The ray of light passes invisible through space...
    Int 2.337 16 We may owe to dreams some light on the fountain of this skill [of drawing];...
    Int 2.344 6 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star...blending its light with all your day.
    Art1 2.358 13 ...what skill is...shown [in works of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul, a jet of pure light...
    Pt1 3.14 4 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
    Pt1 3.36 4 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
    Exp 3.68 17 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    Exp 3.68 19 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of...the morning light, and not of art.
    Exp 3.71 14 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself, as it were in flashes of light...
    Exp 3.79 18 The intellect names [sin]...absence of light...
    Exp 3.85 20 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light...
    Chr1 3.95 10 [Character] is a natural power, like light and heat...
    Mrs1 3.140 7 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival...
    Mrs1 3.147 16 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light...
    Nat2 3.170 12 The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning...
    Nat2 3.189 4 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    NR 3.238 3 ...our economical mother...plants an eye wherever a new ray of light can fall...
    UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
    UGM 4.10 9 Light and darkness...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    UGM 4.12 24 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    UGM 4.13 18 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    UGM 4.35 2 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    PPh 4.48 14 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.48 15 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.51 1 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and light is whitewash;...
    PPh 4.60 20 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only...in the perfect yes and no of the dialogue, but in bursts of light.
    PPh 4.70 22 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    PNR 4.87 10 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...
    SwM 4.107 16 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
    SwM 4.113 9 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.183 2 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    ShP 4.196 18 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    ShP 4.205 26 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    ShP 4.207 12 Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
    ShP 4.215 26 ...[the poet] delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them.
    GoW 4.263 26 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him...
    GoW 4.275 21 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.
    GoW 4.284 27 [Goethe] lays a ray of light under every fact...
    GoW 4.286 18 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no light on his marriage;...
    ET2 5.28 22 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET2 5.31 22 The worst impediment I have found at sea is the want of light in the cabin.
    ET3 5.43 23 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.
    ET3 5.43 25 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET5 5.88 18 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET5 5.93 18 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET13 5.224 12 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind; ask neither for light nor right...
    ET14 5.240 27 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
    ET14 5.258 23 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum. For once, there is...light it never saw...
    ET18 5.302 6 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    F 6.14 22 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal; in light, a plant.
    F 6.25 22 If the light come to our eyes, we see; else not.
    F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light;...
    F 6.44 25 ...the great man...is...of a fibre irritable and delicate, like iodine to light.
    Pow 6.76 16 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Wth 6.92 1 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning; and this doctrine of the snake will come also from the elect sons of light;...
    Bhr 6.196 12 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    CbW 6.265 18 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
    Bty 6.282 23 ...man, when his powers unfold in order, will...emit light into all [nature's] recesses.
    Bty 6.303 4 Proclus says, [Beauty] swims on the light of forms.
    Bty 6.303 12 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Bty 6.305 8 Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...
    Ill 6.309 10 I lost the light of one day [in the Mammoth Cave].
    Ill 6.310 23 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    SS 7.8 22 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light...
    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Art2 7.38 2 ...every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    DL 7.101 5 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms/...
    DL 7.104 9 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the light...
    DL 7.105 14 [The boy] walks daily among wonders: fire, light, darkness, the moon, the stars...
    Farm 7.143 1 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land, soaked it with light and heat...
    Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat...
    WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    WD 7.178 5 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it, whether time, or space, or light, or water, or food.
    Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
    Boks 7.209 2 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    Clbs 7.228 21 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
    Clbs 7.240 6 You can shut out the light, it may be, but can you shut out gravitation?
    Suc 7.296 21 The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer.
    OA 7.330 15 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought, because it cast no light abroad, is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    PI 8.9 1 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;...
    PI 8.26 11 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but the painted vicissitudes of the soul.
    PI 8.27 20 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    PI 8.41 13 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.
    Res 8.135 4 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./
    Res 8.137 8 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light;...
    Res 8.142 3 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.145 18 Malus, known for his discoveries in the polarization of light, was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    Res 8.150 5 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    QO 8.198 3 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    PC 8.211 16 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    PPo 8.262 26 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    PPo 8.264 4 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    PPo 8.264 8 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    Insp 8.273 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    Insp 8.274 24 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light...will on a sudden be enkindled...
    Insp 8.277 10 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Insp 8.282 21 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says...I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing:/ O my only light,/ It cannot be/ That I am he/ On whom thy tempests fell all night./
    Insp 8.284 26 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Grts 8.302 5 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
    Grts 8.315 5 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.
    Grts 8.317 22 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.
    Grts 8.317 24 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Imtl 8.332 8 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.
    Imtl 8.332 9 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he.
    Imtl 8.333 20 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is elemental,-belongs to thought and virtue, and whenever we have either we see the beams of this light.
    Imtl 8.342 14 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
    Dem1 10.3 7 [Dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic]...shed light on our structure.
    Dem1 10.10 13 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Dem1 10.10 16 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become crescents...
    PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
    PerF 10.71 4 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive...light as joyful...as on the first day.
    PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim but...momentary rays of its light?
    Chr2 10.97 1 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as, the light, the seed...
    Chr2 10.100 6 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Edc1 10.127 25 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Edc1 10.136 6 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
    SovE 10.186 19 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof...
    Prch 10.218 27 ...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 10.222 7 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty. How gloomy is the day, and upon yonder shining pond what melancholy light!
    MoL 10.250 21 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
    Schr 10.271 27 ...the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity...
    Schr 10.282 6 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
    Schr 10.282 10 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.
    Schr 10.283 20 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal, its light ubiquitous like the sun.
    LLNE 10.343 16 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter it flowed.
    LLNE 10.353 22 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    MMEm 10.411 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...
    Thor 10.464 14 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    LS 11.18 21 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...
    HDC 11.39 23 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    HDC 11.67 8 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;...
    EWI 11.99 5 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason; of the clear light;...
    War 11.161 4 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light of each seer.
    FSLC 11.200 2 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare, which cast light on the whole frame of society.
    EPro 11.321 21 In the light of this event [the Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.
    SMC 11.376 1 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone. Yet it is tinged with light from heaven.
    Wom 11.405 14 [Women] are more delicate than men,-delicate as iodine to light...
    Wom 11.412 16 [Women] emit from their pores...wave upon wave of rosy light...
    Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection. Women make light of these, asking only love.
    Wom 11.415 6 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    Scot 11.463 4 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    FRO2 11.490 8 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen, as if only to enhance by their dimness the superior light of Christianity.
    CPL 11.506 2 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...
    FRep 11.537 13 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face, or the heavenly body by whose light it is marked.
    FRep 11.544 12 ...I see in all directions the light breaking.
    PLT 12.15 23 [Intellect] is as the light, public and entire to each...
    PLT 12.17 18 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect], these steps on the heavenly stair, until he comes to light where language fails him.
    PLT 12.32 24 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    PLT 12.34 18 [Instinct] is that glimpse of inextinguishable light by which men are guided;...
    PLT 12.34 25 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention...
    PLT 12.39 7 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.39 11 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact]...not under a personal but under a universal light.
    PLT 12.48 1 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it...
    PLT 12.53 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    PLT 12.57 21 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    II 12.65 22 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...
    II 12.69 12 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.70 21 [Inspiration] is...a public or universal light...
    II 12.76 27 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.
    Mem 12.101 23 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.
    Mem 12.110 14 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine backward and forward.
    CInt 12.123 24 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought]...
    CInt 12.129 14 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...
    CInt 12.130 20 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes easily that he does, as snow and vapor, heat, wind and light.
    CL 12.143 1 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light...
    CL 12.143 3 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light, but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to come from depths below all depths;...
    CL 12.143 6 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    CL 12.143 7 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea, a light radiating from some far spiritual world, than any that can be named.
    CW 12.169 6 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Bost 12.187 1 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the men that drink it get up earlier, and some of the morning light lasts through the day.
    Bost 12.203 7 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
    MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.314 7 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    WSL 12.342 8 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects...
    Pray 12.351 8 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...
    Pray 12.356 14 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon...
    Pray 12.356 18 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space. Not such was this light...
    Pray 12.356 23 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity...
    PPr 12.381 20 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation...to the scholar, that he shall be there for light;...

Light, n. (3)

    Nat 1.39 17 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    SwM 4.140 8 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
    Pray 12.356 13 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with the eye of my soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.

light, v. (7)

    Nat 1.7 17 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
    Bty 6.286 12 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.
    SS 7.11 4 A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
    MMEm 10.397 25 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    PLT 12.21 7 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design.
    II 12.69 22 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile?
    MAng1 12.238 12 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.

light-armed, n. (2)

    MN 1.214 3 ...only the light-armed arrive at the summit.
    CbW 6.243 15 ...Only the light-armed climb the hill./

lighted, adj. (3)

    Clbs 7.245 10 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
    LLNE 10.334 7 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    MMEm 10.425 13 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...

lighted, v. (6)

    DSA 1.143 23 The eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds...
    ET12 5.204 2 No candle or fire is ever lighted in the Bodleian.
    ET14 5.235 15 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET16 5.277 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
    ET17 5.296 4 [Wordsworth's] face sometimes lighted up...
    MAng1 12.237 27 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle, that his work might be lighted and his hands at liberty.

lighten, v. (2)

    OS 2.270 15 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    SMC 11.348 4 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/

lightened, v. (2)

    WD 7.165 5 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    SMC 11.348 22 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.

lightens, v. (2)

    AmS 1.108 18 [The universal mind] is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily...
    Schr 10.282 10 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.

lighter, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.286 24 Dissuade all you can from the lists [of scholarship]. Sift the wheat, frighten away the lighter souls.

lighters, n. (1)

    ET3 5.42 5 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.

lightest, adj. (2)

    CbW 6.243 10 ...wilt thou measure all thy road,/ See thou lift the lightest load./
    MMEm 10.416 3 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome.

light-headed, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.84 18 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...

light-hearted, adj. (1)

    LT 1.284 9 ...we must pay for being too intellectual, as they call it. People are not as light-hearted for it.

Lighthouse, Eddystone, Engl (1)

    Art2 7.41 4 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...

Lighthouse, Minot Rock, Ma (1)

    Art2 7.38 26 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

light-house, n. (1)

    CInt 12.115 26 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than, the light-house...

lighthouses, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 21 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

lighting, v. (4)

    PNR 4.80 13 Modern science...by the simple expedient of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    Res 8.146 13 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    CSC 10.375 6 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging...and lighting a clownish face with sacred fire.
    Mem 12.100 25 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...

lightly, adv. (5)

    SL 2.131 22 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.
    Pt1 3.35 4 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must be held lightly...
    Exp 3.78 12 ...men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...
    PI 8.63 22 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears, and think lightly of histories and statutes.
    Schr 10.288 22 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...

light-minded, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.236 26 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is depth of feeling...among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    PPo 8.256 16 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./

lightness, n. (2)

    Hist 2.21 6 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
    ET16 5.285 20 ...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the lightness of a mullein plant...

lightning, n. (19)

    Hist 2.19 5 I have seen in the sky a chain of summer lightning which at once showed to me that the Greeks drew from nature when they painted the thunderbolt in the hand of Jove.
    Chr1 3.104 22 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal;...
    F 6.7 2 ...fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
    F 6.22 19 ...the lightning...is in [man].
    Wth 6.89 20 Fire, steam, lightning, gravity...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Farm 7.142 25 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air...the lightning of the cloud...
    Cour 7.254 19 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    PC 8.229 22 Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning...
    Insp 8.279 20 ...when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    PerF 10.70 23 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PerF 10.70 24 ...the lightning fell and the storm raged...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    SovE 10.197 25 ...if I violate myself...the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...
    MoL 10.248 21 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Franklin, with lightning;...
    EzRy 10.386 7 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning... are well remembered...
    FSLC 11.182 16 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.
    FRep 11.513 20 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    PLT 12.54 2 The air would rot without lightning;...
    CL 12.148 26 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
    PPr 12.384 20 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating than the lightning of the night-storm...

lightning-knotted, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.243 6 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons,/ Drooping oft in wreaths of dread/ Lightning-knotted round his head/...

lightning-rod, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.232 19 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man' s] body in its duty.
    Aris 10.47 15 The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.

lightnings, n. (2)

    LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud...emit lightnings on all beholders.
    PPh 4.59 8 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

lights, n. (18)

    Nat 1.12 21 What angels invented...this zodiac of lights...
    Nat 1.53 20 Take those lips away/.../And those eyes, the break of day,/ Lights that do mislead the morn./
    MN 1.208 4 [A man] need not study where to stand, nor to put things in favorable lights;...
    Hist 2.7 25 Praise is looked...from the mountains and the lights of the firmament.
    SL 2.162 4 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous, and the ray does not traverse; there are no thorough lights...
    Lov1 2.188 19 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...
    OS 2.290 17 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps...the mountain lights, the mountain thoughts they enjoyed yesterday...
    Exp 3.64 5 The lights of the church...[nature] does not distinguish by any favor.
    Nat2 3.173 7 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
    Nat2 3.174 18 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
    PPh 4.79 8 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.
    CbW 6.272 13 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...
    Ill 6.309 20 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
    WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven...
    Suc 7.298 3 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    Insp 8.270 5 The aboriginal man...in the dim lights of Darwin's microscope, is not an engaging figure.
    MMEm 10.415 3 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let my lights go out...
    PPr 12.389 7 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

Lights, Northern, n. (1)

    Ill 6.311 6 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...

lights, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.170 19 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
    Grts 8.317 21 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Chr2 10.101 3 ...[the man of profound moral sentiment] lights up the house or the landscape in which he stands.

light-shedding, adj. (1)

    CL 12.149 8 The Hindoos called fire Agni...bearer of oblations, smoke-bannered and light-shedding...

lightsome, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.57 11 We become physically nimble and lightsome;...
    Milt1 12.265 5 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...
    MLit 12.310 12 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills the heart and brain...

like, adj. (143)

    Nat 1.4 5 In like manner, nature is already...describing its own design.
    Nat 1.33 8 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions...
    Nat 1.33 13 In like manner, the memorable words of history...consist usually of a natural fact...
    Nat 1.38 22 In like manner, what good heed Nature forms in us!
    Nat 1.44 23 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles; which, however, may be drawn and comprise it in like manner.
    AmS 1.93 19 Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    AmS 1.111 25 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    DSA 1.120 17 Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
    DSA 1.126 6 In like manner, all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are sacred...
    Con 1.305 24 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Tran 1.329 9 ...in like manner, thought only appears in the objects it classifies.
    Tran 1.337 15 In like manner, if there is anything grand and daring in human thought or virtue...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.345 12 ...we, on this sea of human thought, in like manner inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    Hist 2.10 27 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
    Hist 2.15 16 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
    Hist 2.21 9 In like manner all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
    SR 2.88 25 In like manner the reformers summon conventions...
    Comp 2.94 23 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
    Comp 2.112 6 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    SL 2.133 13 In like manner our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    SL 2.152 25 A like Nemesis presides over all intellectual works.
    SL 2.155 5 In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    Lov1 2.177 20 The like force has the passion [of love] over all [the lover's] nature.
    Lov1 2.180 16 In like manner, personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    Fdsp 2.203 18 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing...
    OS 2.272 12 In like manner [the soul] abolishes time and space.
    Cir 2.312 9 In like manner we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
    Cir 2.322 9 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Int 2.340 19 The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works.
    Pt1 3.36 16 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses; and many the like misappearances.
    Pt1 3.39 23 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his; that it is as strange and beautiful to him as to you; he would fain hear the like eloquence at length.
    Exp 3.43 4 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ Like and unlike,/ Portly and grim/...
    Exp 3.68 25 In like manner, for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Nat2 3.189 27 In like manner, there is throughout nature something mocking...
    Pol1 3.206 7 In like manner to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.
    Pol1 3.217 18 I find the like unwilling homage [to character] in all quarters.
    NER 3.281 6 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished differences;...
    NER 3.281 24 These and the like experiences intimate that man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    NER 3.284 19 In like manner, let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    UGM 4.6 16 [The great man's] service to us is of like sort.
    UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
    UGM 4.21 17 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation.
    UGM 4.25 20 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like...
    UGM 4.25 25 The like assimilation goes on between men of one town...
    UGM 4.26 21 [The great] are the exceptions which we want, where all grows like.
    PPh 4.69 2 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    SwM 4.99 26 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works. With the like force he threw himself into theology.
    SwM 4.100 16 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored. The like favor was continued to him by his successor.
    SwM 4.110 9 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality;...
    SwM 4.141 22 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming...
    ShP 4.200 11 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    GoW 4.275 9 In like manner, in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    ET2 5.25 16 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
    ET14 5.246 14 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    F 6.12 12 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
    F 6.37 20 The like adjustments exist for man.
    F 6.45 7 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...
    Wth 6.98 7 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it. So of electrical and chemical apparatus, and many the like things.
    Bhr 6.195 21 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration...
    Wsp 6.209 26 In this country the like stupefaction was in the air...
    Wsp 6.236 26 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands.
    Bty 6.299 27 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but when the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
    Civ 7.20 8 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth...is made by tribes.
    Art2 7.41 26 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain, the size of men and animals, and such like, have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.54 12 In like manner it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    Art2 7.56 10 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose...
    Elo1 7.62 17 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    DL 7.123 13 In like manner, every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
    Farm 7.139 26 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession. And the like fact holds in the surrounding towns.
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
    WD 7.183 11 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
    Boks 7.196 13 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information. In like manner the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
    Boks 7.208 15 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called Table-Talks...
    Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by the face of Nature.
    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    Suc 7.300 13 In like manner, life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.
    Suc 7.305 13 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility gives welcome to all excellence...
    OA 7.316 9 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the cloth shoe...of Age.
    OA 7.327 4 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
    PI 8.28 15 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
    PI 8.39 27 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation] is resistless...
    PI 8.45 20 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
    PI 8.52 6 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like allowance is the prescriptive right of poetry.
    PI 8.59 10 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
    SA 8.101 25 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.
    Elo2 8.121 1 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious. I think the like rule holds of the good reader.
    Comc 8.158 11 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    Comc 8.170 11 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...in like manner, of the gay Rameau of Diderot...
    QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed with like ardor...
    QO 8.197 4 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    QO 8.199 5 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition; waking, the like suggestions occurred for and against the proposition as his own thoughts;...
    PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PC 8.233 21 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
    Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...
    Imtl 8.327 12 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;...
    Imtl 8.327 23 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Imtl 8.338 13 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    Dem1 10.16 19 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism;...
    Aris 10.43 19 ...the manners betray the like puny constitution.
    PerF 10.84 1 ...if you wish to avail yourself of [the world's energies'] might, and in like manner if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    Chr2 10.105 11 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.
    Supl 10.175 19 The like staidness is in [Nature's] dealings with us.
    SovE 10.198 16 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    Prch 10.229 15 The clergy are as like as peas.
    Schr 10.288 21 In like manner [the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    LLNE 10.335 25 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.340 16 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name. He had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose...
    LLNE 10.358 20 Why could not the like partnership be formed between the inventor and the man of executive talent everywhere?
    EzRy 10.390 22 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate. Travellers from the West and North and South bear the like testimony.
    MMEm 10.407 24 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity, she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    MMEm 10.423 24 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves.
    SlHr 10.438 24 In like manner now...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    Thor 10.452 21 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty.
    Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.
    LS 11.10 11 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
    HDC 11.41 19 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
    EWI 11.113 4 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    FSLC 11.179 19 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility in my neighbors;...
    FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.
    SMC 11.353 5 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship, and south is north. The storm of war works the like miracle on men.
    SMC 11.356 17 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    ChiE 11.473 23 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    FRO1 11.480 12 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.
    FRO2 11.488 24 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    FRO2 11.489 11 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome, with whatever is most like it in the teaching and practice of men;...
    PLT 12.20 6 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.22 6 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    PLT 12.24 7 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...
    PLT 12.24 9 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you, though no other persons ever evoke the like phenomena...
    PLT 12.27 25 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world. An individual mind in like manner is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    PLT 12.53 8 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    Mem 12.101 27 Who, [can judge] the new assertion? He who has heard many the like.
    CL 12.142 19 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.
    CL 12.147 18 ...Nature makes a like impression on age as on youth.
    CL 12.163 14 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like truth and elegance in the student.
    MAng1 12.237 8 In like manner, [Michelangelo] possessed an intense love of solitude.
    Milt1 12.264 19 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...
    ACri 12.292 16 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...
    MLit 12.321 4 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    MLit 12.325 12 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy; and many the like examples.

like, n. (42)

    Nat 1.19 12 The shows of day...shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat 1.33 23 ...the proverbs ot nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth. Thus; A rolling stone gathers no moss...and the like.
    DSA 1.132 12 [The divine bards] admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are...God's; that they had the like...
    YA 1.375 4 We do the like in all matters...
    Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
    Hist 2.25 9 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood; whereupon others rose and did the like.
    Hist 2.34 22 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Hist 2.35 8 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named;...that who seeks a treasure must not speak, and the like,--I find true in Concord...
    SL 2.132 13 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    SL 2.144 5 A man is...a selecting principle, gathering his like to him wherever he goes.
    SL 2.161 13 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of...our acquisition of an office, and the like...
    OS 2.273 26 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like...
    Cir 2.311 15 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
    Cir 2.314 13 ...like draws to like...
    Pt1 3.18 21 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to signify exuberances.
    Pt1 3.30 22 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines...a figure to be a bound of solid; and many the like.
    Exp 3.74 6 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.122 18 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Pol1 3.197 4 All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
    NR 3.245 15 ...the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie;...Things are, and are not, at the same time;--and the like.
    UGM 4.11 18 Like can only be known by like.
    UGM 4.11 19 Like can only be known by like.
    SwM 4.125 12 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates: like will to like...
    ShP 4.205 11 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London, as of borrowing money, and the like;...
    GoW 4.288 1 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like.
    ET16 5.283 9 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    Wth 6.125 19 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense, e.g. Best use of money is to pay debts;...and the like.
    CbW 6.271 8 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like.
    SS 7.14 16 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like;...
    WD 7.182 12 The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood.
    OA 7.321 11 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    PI 8.8 10 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist. In botany we have the like...
    PI 8.20 9 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
    PI 8.35 25 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature. Yet the writer...could do the like all day.
    Res 8.142 19 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce; the like in Japan...
    Imtl 8.350 21 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by men.
    Dem1 10.17 27 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal, after the example of the ancients, and of those who had observed the like.
    Chr2 10.121 9 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler, and the like in every intelligent and moral society.
    Schr 10.261 15 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.
    LLNE 10.329 6 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics; the like in all arts, modes.
    Thor 10.473 5 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge...of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the like...
    Bost 12.210 10 We praised the Puritans because we did not find in ourselves the spirit to do the like.

like, v. (139)

    LT 1.277 23 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him; but when I have seen it near, I do not like it better.
    LT 1.285 10 ...I own I like the speculators best.
    Tran 1.342 17 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude. Society to be sure, does not like this very well;...
    Tran 1.348 5 [Transcendentalists] do not even like to vote.
    Tran 1.350 11 A great man...will leave to those who like it the multiplication of examples.
    Tran 1.350 27 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work.
    YA 1.392 22 Would [our youths and maidens] like tithes to the clergy...
    YA 1.393 2 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.35 5 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named;...I find true in Concord...
    SR 2.71 19 I like the silent church before the service begins...
    SL 2.133 24 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
    SL 2.135 19 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
    SL 2.142 23 We like only such actions as have already long had the praise of men...
    Fdsp 2.197 14 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
    Exp 3.49 23 Nature does not like to be observed...
    Exp 3.56 12 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
    Chr1 3.92 4 Our frank countrymen of the west and south...like to know whether the New Englander is a substantial man...
    Chr1 3.97 15 Men of character like to hear of their faults;...
    Chr1 3.97 16 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults;...
    Chr1 3.104 24 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so.
    Mrs1 3.136 24 I like that every chair should be a throne...
    Gts 3.165 7 ...I like to see that we cannot be bought and sold.
    Nat2 3.177 1 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    NR 3.237 5 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape...
    NER 3.257 2 ...I do not like the close air of saloons.
    NER 3.273 16 [Men] like flattery for the moment...
    UGM 4.22 27 ...I like rough and smooth [men]...
    UGM 4.23 2 I like the first Caesar;...
    UGM 4.23 7 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...
    SwM 4.135 27 The more coherent and elaborate the system, the less I like it.
    MoS 4.152 27 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks.
    MoS 4.167 9 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray days, and autumn and winter weather.
    MoS 4.172 5 Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
    MoS 4.176 17 I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once a week.
    NMW 4.235 20 We like to see every thing do its office after its kind...
    NMW 4.240 17 I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's] biographers at St. Helena.
    NMW 4.252 21 Of course the rich and aristocratic did not like [Napoleon].
    GoW 4.266 27 Act, if you like,--but you do it at your peril.
    ET1 5.18 10 ...[Carlyle]...did not like to place himself where no step can be taken.
    ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
    ET4 5.71 22 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    ET5 5.87 1 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics...
    ET7 5.122 12 [Englishmen] like a man committed to his objects.
    ET8 5.136 7 [The English] like the sayers of No, better than the sayers of Yes.
    ET8 5.138 1 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own.
    ET8 5.142 17 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
    ET10 5.154 23 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    ET10 5.163 25 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.
    ET15 5.268 20 The English like [the London Times] for its complete information.
    ET15 5.268 23 [the English] like [the London Times's] independence;...
    ET16 5.275 14 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...
    F 6.16 11 We like the nervous and victorious habit of our own branch of the family.
    Wth 6.98 4 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it.
    Wth 6.123 3 ...the baker doubts he shall never like to drive up to the door;...
    Ctr 6.133 7 [Egotists] like sickness...
    Ctr 6.142 7 I like people who like Plato.
    Ctr 6.142 16 You like the strict rules and the long terms [of the Latin class]; and [your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...
    CbW 6.246 6 We like very well to be praised for our action...
    CbW 6.249 18 If government knew how, I should like to see it check...the population.
    CbW 6.257 19 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank.
    CbW 6.267 26 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore...
    Bty 6.289 17 We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like;...
    Ill 6.310 25 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    Ill 6.312 5 The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed.
    Elo1 7.69 2 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    Farm 7.137 8 Men do not like hard work...
    Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.
    WD 7.167 25 A farmer said he should like to have all the land that joined his own.
    Boks 7.196 24 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;...
    Boks 7.204 12 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech...
    Clbs 7.232 13 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls...
    Suc 7.303 8 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    PI 8.6 8 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.25 13 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that;...
    PI 8.25 19 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.
    PI 8.25 20 [People] like to see statues;...
    PI 8.25 21 ...[people] like to name the stars;...
    PI 8.25 21 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove, Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.
    PI 8.25 24 [People] like poetry without knowing it as such.
    PI 8.25 25 [People] like to go to the theatre and be made to weep;...
    PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets on the hills...
    PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...
    PI 8.48 21 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like to transfer that rhyme to life...
    Res 8.137 21 We like to see the inexhaustible riches of Nature...
    Res 8.138 24 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 8.150 10 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.
    QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    QO 8.191 7 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    QO 8.192 11 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation].
    QO 8.197 15 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan. I never like my own bon-mots until he adopts them.
    Grts 8.316 5 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power.
    Imtl 8.349 25 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know...
    Dem1 10.19 12 ...however poetic these twilights of thought, I like daylight...
    Dem1 10.22 19 We may make great eyes if we like, and say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!
    Aris 10.37 11 We like cool people...
    Aris 10.49 6 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see that appraisal applied to every man...
    Aris 10.59 19 We have a rich men's aristocracy, plenty of bribes for those who like them;...
    PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Chr2 10.109 12 ...we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
    Edc1 10.138 14 I like boys...
    Supl 10.172 15 All men like an impressive fact.
    Supl 10.174 3 I like no deep stakes.
    Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like exaggerated event and activity;...
    Supl 10.174 7 Children and thoughtless people...like to run to a house on fire...
    Supl 10.174 8 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
    SovE 10.210 24 ...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, and that he should like to lift it a little...
    SovE 10.210 25 ...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, and that he...should like to be the friend of some man's virtue?...
    SovE 10.211 1 ...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 another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...
    Schr 10.277 12 I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or disguise can conceal...
    EzRy 10.388 15 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done. You will not like to be excluded; I shall not like to be neglected.
    EzRy 10.388 16 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done. You will not like to be excluded; I shall not like to be neglected.
    MMEm 10.404 4 I like that kind of apathy that is a triumph to overset.
    MMEm 10.410 9 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons?
    MMEm 10.410 10 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity in her dress.
    Thor 10.455 10 [Thoreau] did not like the taste of wine...
    Thor 10.456 16 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him;...
    Thor 10.457 1 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...
    Carl 10.490 18 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown...
    HDC 11.52 6 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    FSLC 11.206 7 The South does not like the North, slavery or no slavery...
    FSLN 11.220 25 ...all men like to be made much of.
    AKan 11.258 13 I like the primary assembly.
    ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man. All like wages...
    SMC 11.368 4 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    SMC 11.376 11 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...
    Wom 11.409 14 I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they are so finished.
    FRep 11.523 3 [Americans] believe that what they have enacted they can repeal if they do not like it.
    PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
    PLT 12.47 25 We like people who can do things.
    PLT 12.57 6 We like faculty that can rapidly be coined into money...
    Mem 12.90 13 We like longevity...
    Mem 12.90 13 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    Mem 12.90 15 ...most of all we like a great memory.
    Mem 12.105 16 ...we understand best what we like;...
    CL 12.139 18 ...in choosing a farm, we like a southern exposure...
    Bost 12.202 10 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...
    Bost 12.206 13 ...youth and health like a stirring town...
    ACri 12.289 3 We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked that all men like to hear him named.
    Let 12.396 5 The more discontent, the better we like it.

liked, v. (30)

    NR 3.248 12 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    NER 3.268 11 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    ShP 4.210 15 [Shakespeare] was a full man, who liked to talk;...
    NMW 4.249 23 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death...
    ET1 5.18 21 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings. He liked the huge machine.
    ET4 5.63 17 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.
    ET14 5.233 22 Byron liked something craggy to break his mind upon.
    WD 7.176 4 In the Greek legend...Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians.
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] confessed he liked low company.
    Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    PI 8.48 19 The boy liked the drum...
    PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune.
    Supl 10.174 13 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Plu 10.308 9 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    MMEm 10.403 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    SlHr 10.445 28 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    Thor 10.463 8 [Thoreau] liked and used the simplest food...
    Thor 10.467 10 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...
    Thor 10.475 25 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol.
    Thor 10.481 13 [Thoreau] liked the pure fragrance of melilot.
    HDC 11.59 4 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    HDC 11.59 20 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    JBS 11.278 7 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    ALin 11.332 9 ...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for labor, and liked nothing so well.
    SMC 11.356 19 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who liked harsh play and violence...
    Wom 11.417 22 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect. The good easy world took the joke which it liked.
    CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild animals.
    Bost 12.190 7 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
    MLit 12.326 3 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better.

likely, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.39 20 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    YA 1.382 21 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
    YA 1.385 20 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    Prd1 2.232 13 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    SwM 4.122 4 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church, and is not likely to have a successor.
    ET4 5.55 6 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET12 5.209 26 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...
    OA 7.331 10 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore...
    SA 8.103 21 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Res 8.153 10 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...
    QO 8.182 16 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    MMEm 10.405 12 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    Thor 10.461 4 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it...
    LS 11.6 14 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    AsSu 11.250 7 ...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.
    JBB 11.272 25 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...
    SHC 11.429 6 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    FRO2 11.485 16 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.
    PLT 12.54 23 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

likely, adv. (5)

    Hsm1 2.256 11 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    Int 2.342 3 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first political party he meets,--most likely his father's.
    Edc1 10.151 25 ...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your character. Very likely.
    MoL 10.254 3 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple. Very likely.
    Wom 11.419 6 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful. Very likely.

like-minded, adj. (2)

    SL 2.146 21 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
    NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...

liken, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.259 8 ...why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman...

likened, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.191 16 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...

likeness, n. (25)

    Nat 1.36 21 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of likeness...
    Nat 1.43 15 Each particle...faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
    Nat 1.44 11 Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference...
    Nat 1.45 7 ...in the one thing [the wise man] does rightly, he sees the likeness of all which is done rightly.
    Hist 2.12 16 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by instrinsic likeness...
    Hist 2.15 26 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    SL 2.148 24 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
    SL 2.150 9 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how beautiful is the ease of its victory!
    Lov1 2.178 25 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
    Fdsp 2.208 13 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Int 2.326 20 The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote things...
    Int 2.341 4 [The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's] changes.
    Int 2.341 11 ...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every product of his wit.
    Art1 2.351 23 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    Gts 3.165 13 No services are of any value, but only likeness.
    SwM 4.123 16 [Swedenborg] saw things...in likeness of function, not of structure.
    MoS 4.161 22 ...the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
    DL 7.125 15 The men we see in each other do not give us the image and likeness of man.
    Suc 7.282 7 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    PI 8.9 15 Nature gives [the student], sometimes in a flattered likeness, sometimes in caricature, a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    Aris 10.60 9 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men]...are present to every mind in proportion to its likeness to theirs.
    Thor 10.474 11 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    Mem 12.93 13 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by...likeness, unlikeness...
    MAng1 12.233 9 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty.
    MAng1 12.244 13 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo], esteemed a faithful likeness, is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

likes, v. (26)

    SL 2.135 20 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
    Exp 3.49 23 [Nature]...likes that we should be her fools and playmates.
    MoS 4.166 14 [Montaigne] likes his saddle.
    MoS 4.169 2 Montaigne...likes pain because it makes him feel himself and realize things;...
    MoS 4.169 6 [Montaigne]...likes to feel solid ground and the stones underneath.
    ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other.
    GoW 4.268 25 A master likes a master...
    ET1 5.7 17 ...[Landor]...likes to surprise...
    ET1 5.9 8 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show...
    ET2 5.29 5 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously...
    ET2 5.30 19 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate...
    ET4 5.46 14 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET15 5.262 1 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    F 6.34 24 Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?
    F 6.34 25 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his skull...all the vices of a Saxon...race...
    F 6.42 5 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on his merits.
    Pow 6.78 2 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    Wth 6.100 16 [The right merchant]...likes small and sure gains.
    Clbs 7.249 26 One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to disturb...
    OA 7.335 6 [John Adams] likes to have a person always reading to him...
    PerF 10.87 11 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    Supl 10.167 13 The English mind...likes literal statement;...
    Carl 10.491 11 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise republics and he likes the Russian Czar;...
    Carl 10.491 19 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window, and even likes the Scotch nightcap;...
    Carl 10.493 10 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...
    FSLC 11.206 8 The North likes the South well enough, for it knows its own advantages.

likest, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.334 16 Society is...best when it is likest to solitude.

likewise, adv. (8)

    Prd1 2.236 3 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Int 2.343 1 [Socrates] likewise defers to [Lysis and Menexenus], loves them, whilst he speaks.
    PPh 4.40 5 St. Augustine...Goethe, are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    PPh 4.70 20 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind.
    NMW 4.227 13 All distinguished engineers, savans, statists, report to [a man of Napoleon's stamp]: so likewise do all good heads in every kind...
    ET11 5.174 6 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son. The Norman noble...did likewise.
    Aris 10.34 26 We likewise put faith in Democracy;...
    II 12.86 23 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away. Men likewise, they put their lives into their deed.

liking, n. (4)

    DSA 1.131 1 The manner in which [Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles, kills all generous sympathy and liking.
    NER 3.278 23 ...each man's innocence and his real liking of his neighbor have kept [the proposition of depravity] a dead letter.
    UGM 4.9 3 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.

liking, v. (2)

    ET5 5.76 13 The Saxon works after liking...
    ET11 5.177 3 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.

lilac, n. (2)

    Art1 2.349 6 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...
    SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs, barberry, lilac, privet and thorns...

lilies, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.16 22 Some stars, lilies...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    PPo 8.243 2 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.257 23 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
    SovE 10.195 20 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem;...

liliputian, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.206 24 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...

Lilla, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.151 12 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...

lily, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.177 12 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the violet, the clover and the lily in his veins;...
    Bty 6.298 17 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws,--as every lily and every rose is well.

lily-stems, n. (1)

    Thor 10.455 12 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.

limb, n. (8)

    Nat 1.68 20 Man is all symmetry,/ Full of proportions, one limb to another/...
    MN 1.204 5 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this...that there is in it no private will, no rebel leaf or limb...
    Comp 2.102 24 If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
    UGM 4.29 18 Serve the great. ... Be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth.
    NMW 4.257 17 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    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.
    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;...
    War 11.161 12 The star once risen, though only one man in the hemisphere has yet seen its upper limb in the horizon, will mount and mount...

limber, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.160 20 We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first and limber as the second.

limbo, n. (6)

    Ctr 6.138 9 Draw [the scholar] out of this limbo of irritability.
    Boks 7.192 4 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Dem1 10.7 20 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
    Dem1 10.21 18 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
    Supl 10.166 6 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams...
    Schr 10.266 2 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.

limbs, n. (17)

    SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...commands his limbs...
    Art1 2.356 22 Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs.
    F 6.32 12 The cold will brace your limbs and brain to genius...
    Pow 6.73 22 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Bhr 6.187 9 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
    Bty 6.289 21 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    WD 7.157 9 All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of [the human body's] limbs and senses.
    WD 7.165 2 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
    SA 8.82 11 ...thought disposes the limbs and the walk...
    Comc 8.170 22 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    Comc 8.171 2 In poor pictures the limbs and trunk degrade the face.
    HDC 11.39 26 [The settlers of Concord] were fain to make use of their knees for a table, but their limbs were their own.
    War 11.152 3 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    AKan 11.260 10 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    Mem 12.102 23 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...
    Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    AgMs 12.359 4 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...

lime, n. (9)

    PNR 4.85 3 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical; the proportions are constant of oxygen, azote and lime;...
    ET4 5.51 25 ...as water, lime and sand make mortar, so certain temperaments marry well...
    F 6.43 27 Wood, lime...were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Wth 6.83 24 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
    Farm 7.143 25 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
    WD 7.175 6 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
    Supl 10.175 17 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    War 11.164 15 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.

limestone, n. (4)

    YA 1.365 13 ...the mineral riches are explored; limestone, coal, slate, and iron;...
    Pt1 3.22 6 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    Exp 3.80 6 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good...limestone...in our brush pasture.
    Ill 6.309 23 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].

limit, n. (24)

    Pt1 3.40 15 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy...
    UGM 4.27 21 There is...a speedy limit to the use of heroes.
    SwM 4.108 27 ...there is no limit to this ascending scale [in nature]...
    ET15 5.264 20 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    Pow 6.53 3 Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Wsp 6.217 3 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
    Art2 7.42 12 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers, and he is no longer free. But if we work within this limit, she yields us all her strength.
    DL 7.114 5 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    WD 7.161 11 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first...
    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.
    Suc 7.286 16 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent.
    PI 8.42 17 ...as...every perception is a destiny, there is no limit to [the poet' s] hope.
    SA 8.91 6 'T is a defect in our manners that they have not yet reached the prescribing a limit to visits.
    SA 8.91 10 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    SA 8.106 20 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
    Res 8.153 12 It is easy to see that there is no limit to the chapter of Resources.
    QO 8.189 3 In common prudence there is an early limit to this leaning on an original.
    PerF 10.87 5 There is a speedy limit to profligate politics.
    Schr 10.283 17 Nobody has found the limit of [mother-wit's] knowledge.
    Plu 10.316 7 There is really no limit to [Plutarch's] bounty...
    War 11.167 24 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else, if you pretend to set an arbitrary limit...give up the principle...
    War 11.167 25 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit which the common sense of all mankind has set...
    ChiE 11.474 10 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China... new tools, machinery, new foods, etc., and are thus establishing a commerce without limit.
    PLT 12.40 24 A single thought has no limit to its value;...

limit, v. (6)

    LE 1.164 3 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    UGM 4.10 4 If we limit ourselves to the first advantages, a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    Pow 6.80 9 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Wsp 6.219 22 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity...and so forth.
    EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    FSLC 11.214 7 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented, and a limit set to these encroachments [of slavery] forever.

limitary, adj. (5)

    Con 1.302 20 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.
    Tran 1.346 9 A man is a poor limitary benefactor.
    ET14 5.251 2 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought...
    PI 8.23 25 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary...
    CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...

limitation, n. (26)

    AmS 1.100 9 ...always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    DSA 1.135 1 ...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office [of priest].
    Comp 2.102 4 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil;...if the force, so the limitation.
    Cir 2.308 2 The only sin is limitation.
    NER 3.269 3 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot avert.
    UGM 4.29 13 ...if we indulge [children] to folly, they learn the limitation elsewhere.
    SwM 4.138 9 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    MoS 4.161 24 Some wise limitation...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    GoW 4.271 24 ...there is no trace of provincial limitation in [Goethe's] muse.
    ET9 5.146 20 The same insular limitation pinches [the Englishman's] foreign politics.
    ET18 5.305 8 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...
    F 6.20 5 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
    F 6.21 16 The limitation [of Fate] is impassable by any insight of man.
    F 6.22 1 [Fate] is everywhere bound or limitation.
    F 6.22 1 ...Fate has its lord; limitation its limits...
    F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
    F 6.35 16 ...if limitation is power that shall be...we are reconciled.
    Cour 7.275 2 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal;...seeking...to have no other limitation than that which his own constitution imposes.
    SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    Supl 10.176 23 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    Schr 10.266 1 ...[the poet's] achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    EWI 11.110 6 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EdAd 11.385 23 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
    ChiE 11.470 2 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    MLit 12.331 5 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet of limitation, not of possibility;...
    PPr 12.387 12 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.

limitation-power, n. (1)

    Exp 3.54 8 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...

limitations, n. (32)

    LE 1.157 10 I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
    MN 1.198 16 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.
    MR 1.228 4 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all...limitations...
    Con 1.298 14 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...
    OS 2.272 10 The sovereignty of this nature whereof we speak is made known by its independency of those limitations which circumscribe us on every hand.
    Cir 2.308 1 How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
    Cir 2.308 3 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
    Pt1 3.9 12 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations...
    Exp 3.75 15 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement...
    Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Pol1 3.204 27 ...there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go.
    NR 3.242 2 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite in every man...which, if you can come very near him, sports with all your limitations.
    SwM 4.124 19 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it...lets fall the infirmities and limitations of the grandest mind.
    SwM 4.137 2 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations.
    ET4 5.49 15 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET15 5.272 8 The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the governing classes...
    F 6.3 20 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    F 6.4 27 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    F 6.20 15 The limitations refine as the soul purifies...
    Bhr 6.182 3 What refinement and what limitations the teeth betray!
    Clbs 7.236 12 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations...
    PC 8.224 17 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences...
    Dem1 10.6 26 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog]...should learn in some moment the tough limitations of this fettering organization.
    Chr2 10.115 11 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with limitations of person and text.
    SovE 10.189 19 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    Prch 10.227 23 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language.
    Prch 10.230 24 Let [the young preacher] see his performances only as limitations.
    LLNE 10.355 13 There is...to every theory a tendency...to forget the limitations.
    Thor 10.456 8 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought.
    Thor 10.465 5 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with...
    MAng1 12.217 8 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    EurB 12.374 16 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...

limited, adj. (11)

    DSA 1.134 2 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    Pt1 3.3 12 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color and form...
    Nat2 3.172 24 My house stands in low land, with limited outlook...
    SwM 4.107 20 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form...
    ET18 5.306 12 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the limited franchise...
    PI 8.50 26 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    LLNE 10.341 6 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen.
    LLNE 10.354 5 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
    EzRy 10.392 24 With a very limited acquaintance with books, [Ezra Ripley' s] knowledge was an external experience...
    MAng1 12.221 21 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MLit 12.320 14 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered...with what limited poetic talents his great and steadily growing dominion has been established.

limited, v. (6)

    Hist 2.14 27 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square...
    Fdsp 2.207 19 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own.
    Cir 2.305 22 Every [result]...is only limited by the new.
    Gts 3.165 6 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules.
    Wth 6.94 17 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    SS 7.7 26 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.

limited-monarchical, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.200 25 Nature is not democratic, nor limited-monarchical...

limiting, v. (1)

    HDC 11.45 21 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience...

limits, n. (48)

    Nat 1.71 2 ...who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit?
    LT 1.270 11 The political questions touching...the limits of the executive power;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Hist 2.3 22 ...the limits of nature give power to but one [law] at a time.
    Comp 2.122 8 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I...see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
    Comp 2.122 12 The soul refuses limits...
    SL 2.156 18 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation.
    OS 2.272 18 ...to speak with levity of these limits [of time and space] is, in the world, the sign of insanity.
    Cir 2.307 19 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Int 2.342 21 As long as I hear truth I...am not conscious of any limits to my nature.
    Pt1 3.41 2 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    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 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...
    UGM 4.34 13 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture and limits;...
    UGM 4.34 22 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence.
    UGM 4.35 4 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    UGM 4.35 8 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration, and who can tell its limits?
    PPh 4.62 3 [Plato] even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
    PPh 4.68 1 Plato, lover of limits, loved the illimitable...
    NMW 4.228 15 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    NMW 4.246 1 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    ET1 5.24 19 ...[Wordsworth] surprised by the hard limits of his thought.
    ET5 5.74 3 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy...
    ET9 5.150 5 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit...
    ET14 5.246 14 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    ET14 5.256 21 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    F 6.9 3 ...the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
    F 6.22 2 ...Fate has its lord; limitation its limits...
    F 6.23 22 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    Wth 6.106 15 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Ctr 6.135 14 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Art2 7.41 24 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range...
    Farm 7.151 1 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...
    Res 8.150 4 ...every power in energy speedily arrives at its limits...
    Comc 8.174 1 ...the Comic also has its own speedy limits.
    QO 8.180 12 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow are the limits of human invention.
    Imtl 8.348 7 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
    Edc1 10.126 14 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the journey...the narrow limits which know no outlet...and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    HDC 11.61 25 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    FSLN 11.223 24 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    PLT 12.57 27 ...there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people.
    MAng1 12.217 17 [Beauty] does not lie within the limits of the understanding.
    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?
    Milt1 12.271 13 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man, containing itself in the limits of virtue.
    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 12.330 22 The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight [in Wilhelm Meister].
    PPr 12.391 16 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.
    Trag 12.414 8 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he discerns its impassable limits.

limits, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.224 11 The true prudence limits this sensualism...
    F 6.20 5 Whatever limits us we call Fate.
    F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.
    Dem1 10.17 19 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... All which limits us seemed permeable to that.

limp, adj. (3)

    ET10 5.161 22 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.
    F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him;...
    F 6.20 27 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].

limp, v. (2)

    YA 1.373 24 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    SMC 11.359 11 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott]...as the colonel who got off his horse when he saw one of his men limp on the march, and told him to ride.

limping, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 7 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...limping, late in her arrival.

linchpin, n. (1)

    CbW 6.258 10 ...who dares draw out the linchpin from the wagon-wheel?

Lincoln, Abraham, n. (5)

    Elo2 8.125 20 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln...
    Grts 8.318 22 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    ACiv 11.310 10 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    EPro 11.320 27 We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest...
    ALin 11.330 26 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.

Lincoln, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    HDC 11.62 22 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.

Lincoln's, Abraham, n. (1)

    EPro 11.316 3 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation...

Lincolnshire, England, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 12 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.

Lind, Jenny, n. (2)

    F 6.17 9 It would not be safe to say when...a singer like Jenny Lind...would be born in Boston;...
    Elo2 8.119 23 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...

Lind's, Jenny, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.120 11 I mentioned Jenny Lind's voice. A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...

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