Logician to Loo

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

logician, n. (3)

    MN 1.194 26 When all is said and done, the rapt saint is found the only logician.
    ShP 4.214 25 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    PI 8.39 9 ...poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician.

logomachy, n. (1)

    Plu 10.306 23 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.

Logos, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.40 8 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.

Logres [Malory, Morte d'Ar (1)

    PI 8.62 26 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur, and the realm of Logres...

log-rolling, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.37 25 Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics...are yet unsung.

logs, n. (9)

    Prd1 2.227 7 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
    Nat2 3.172 20 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    ET11 5.190 11 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels, where logs not burn, but men.
    Suc 7.285 2 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    Suc 7.285 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    Insp 8.281 8 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses.
    CL 12.138 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    CL 12.138 6 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water...

loins, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.109 6 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    F 6.47 15 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has sciatica in his loins... he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    FRep 11.538 6 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana, with their spawning loins, must needs be ordinary.

loiter, v. (3)

    Wsp 6.226 5 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.
    Suc 7.294 21 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive, knowing well that it will not loiter.
    Plu 10.301 3 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.

loitered, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.102 24 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you have loitered about the old things...
    ET16 5.286 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury Cathedral]...while the service was said.

loiterer, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 22 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...

loiters, v. (2)

    LE 1.162 20 ...in a remote village, the ardent youth loiters and mourns.
    SovE 10.197 25 ...if I violate myself...the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...

Lok, n. (1)

    Ill 6.320 25 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...

Lollius of Urbino, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 3 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino...

Lonato, Italy, n. (1)

    NMW 4.236 21 At Lonato, and at other places, [Napoleon] was on the point of being taken prisoner.

londes, n. (1)

    CL 12.136 11 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

London, adj. (2)

    ACri 12.286 3 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.
    EurB 12.373 18 ...[Bulwer] has really seen London society...

London, Bishop of, n. (2)

    ET1 5.13 15 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    FRep 11.534 13 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the Bishop of London your faith.

London Committee, n. (2)

    EWI 11.110 5 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...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.127 24 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

London, England, adj. (13)

    Hsm1 2.258 3 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread, and London streets for the feet of Milton.
    ShP 4.193 6 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    ET3 5.39 23 The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
    ET4 5.63 13 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...
    ET14 5.246 18 Dickens...writes London tracts.
    ET14 5.247 22 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
    ET17 5.297 17 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
    Aris 10.62 18 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist, derision, coldness...
    SovE 10.212 1 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from London or Washington law...to the self-revealing idea;...
    Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    Thor 10.459 19 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    EWI 11.122 18 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...
    EurB 12.365 3 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

London, England, n. (132)

    Nat 1.21 14 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    Con 1.311 17 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this world of Rome...and London...
    Hist 2.8 24 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read, from Rome and Athens and London, to himself...
    Hist 2.9 14 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way.
    OS 2.274 7 ...Boston, London, are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    Exp 3.63 7 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    Mrs1 3.131 4 The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.
    Nat2 3.191 18 ...Boston, London, Vienna, and now the governments generally of the world, are cities and governments of the rich;...
    UGM 4.26 3 Viewed from any high point...yonder city of London...would seem a bundle of insanities.
    PPh 4.53 3 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Paris or London;...
    SwM 4.100 10 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed...at Dresden, Leipsic, London, or Amsterdam.
    SwM 4.101 9 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy...
    SwM 4.101 11 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...
    SwM 4.111 7 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson, in London...
    MoS 4.162 2 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ShP 4.192 22 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.205 10 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London...
    NMW 4.225 2 Paris and London and New York...were also to have their prophet;...
    ET1 5.3 4 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET1 5.10 7 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
    ET1 5.15 10 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
    ET1 5.18 19 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.
    ET1 5.18 19 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said...
    ET1 5.19 2 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET3 5.37 7 ...if we will visit London, the present time is the best time, as some signs portend that it has reached its highest point.
    ET3 5.38 5 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET3 5.40 10 Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene globe.
    ET3 5.40 24 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    ET3 5.42 7 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET4 5.52 18 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America, and her conservatives at London.
    ET4 5.52 26 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London...
    ET4 5.53 2 The portraits that hang on the walls in the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...
    ET4 5.66 5 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET4 5.66 13 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in the face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET5 5.85 4 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.
    ET5 5.88 24 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET5 5.91 21 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London;...
    ET5 5.92 2 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind...
    ET5 5.92 10 The commercial relations of the world are so intimately drawn to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET5 5.92 24 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...
    ET5 5.94 20 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    ET5 5.96 12 All the houses in London buy their water.
    ET5 5.99 3 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET6 5.109 25 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets of London.
    ET6 5.113 21 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...
    ET6 5.114 20 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET7 5.121 12 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris...
    ET8 5.129 6 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.140 19 The wrath of London is not French wrath...
    ET9 5.149 20 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
    ET10 5.161 24 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    ET10 5.162 26 The wealth of London determines prices all over the globe.
    ET10 5.163 2 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    ET11 5.176 11 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    ET11 5.177 22 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London...
    ET11 5.178 5 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET11 5.180 6 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    ET11 5.181 18 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...
    ET11 5.181 24 Stafford House is the noblest palace in London.
    ET11 5.191 26 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    ET11 5.198 11 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    ET12 5.202 19 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    ET13 5.224 26 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill...
    ET13 5.225 3 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general, and of the city of London in particular.
    ET14 5.245 14 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards: the verdicts are all dated from London;...
    ET14 5.247 3 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks,--but 't is not for us to be wiser; we must renounce ideals and accept London.
    ET14 5.254 19 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...
    ET14 5.257 22 ...he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London...
    ET14 5.257 23 ...he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London, not in the same kind as London, but in his own kind.
    ET15 5.267 17 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London.
    ET15 5.269 16 On the days when I arrived in London in 1847, I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.274 1 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
    ET16 5.274 6 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
    ET16 5.275 7 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of manfully staying in London...
    ET16 5.280 5 London is pagan [to Carlyle].
    ET16 5.287 26 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    ET16 5.290 23 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral], and parting with our host, we took the train for London.
    ET17 5.292 11 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...
    ET17 5.292 20 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    ET17 5.293 16 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    ET17 5.297 4 ...this trait [Wordsworth's economy] would have another look in London...
    ET17 5.297 9 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    ET18 5.299 5 London is the epitome of our times...
    F 6.3 8 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.
    Pow 6.76 2 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London.
    Ctr 6.147 27 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Ctr 6.149 10 ...London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
    Ctr 6.150 7 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.222 11 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril...of London...to young men.
    CbW 6.247 9 Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or dissolve friendship.
    Ill 6.312 26 In London, in Paris...the carnival, the maquerade is at its height.
    SS 7.4 25 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London.
    Clbs 7.243 21 We know well the Mermaid Club, in London...
    PI 8.74 24 The intellect...uses London and Paris and Berlin...to its end.
    Comc 8.165 7 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Comc 8.165 18 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    QO 8.184 14 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers, in London, relate...that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.196 20 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London...
    Insp 8.290 12 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Grts 8.306 8 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver, in the Royal Institution in London, a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
    Grts 8.317 1 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    PerF 10.85 3 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Edc1 10.145 20 In London...I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    SovE 10.211 21 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris...
    MoL 10.245 6 We run to Paris, to London, to Rome...as if for the want of thought...
    MoL 10.251 23 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England, when on the walls in London you read everywhere placards, Down with the Lords.
    Plu 10.321 8 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.363 21 Rev. William Henry Channing, now of London, was from the first a student of Socialism in France and England...
    Thor 10.459 26 ...[Thoreau] wished to go to Oregon, not to London.
    Thor 10.480 7 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome;...
    Carl 10.496 15 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...
    EWI 11.105 11 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.107 21 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    FSLC 11.213 3 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
    Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    CPL 11.497 3 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...
    FRep 11.535 19 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.
    PLT 12.3 2 I have used such opportunity as I have had, and lately in London and Paris, to attend scientific lectures;...
    II 12.75 27 ...in spite of Boston and London...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    Bost 12.188 6 London now for a thousand years has been in an affirmative or energizing mood;...
    Bost 12.188 10 Linnaeus...called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.
    Bost 12.202 6 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] London is a long way off...
    Bost 12.208 6 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.
    Milt1 12.250 7 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.
    Milt1 12.257 27 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems...to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...
    EurB 12.368 13 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...
    EurB 12.368 20 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    EurB 12.374 20 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...
    PPr 12.390 11 We have been civilizing very fast, building London and Paris...and it has not appeared in literature;...
    PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

London Library, n. (1)

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

London Monument, n. (1)

    ET13 5.230 24 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument or the Tower...

London, New, Connecticut, n (1)

    Bost 12.186 20 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland...

London Retrospective Review (1)

    MAng1 12.241 8 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...

London Times, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.265 13 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office...
    ET15 5.270 1 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.

London Times, n. (21)

    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper...
    ET6 5.102 15 ...the Times newspaper they say is the pluckiest thing in England...
    ET9 5.150 9 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England], from the Times newspaper through politicians and poets...
    ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET13 5.218 24 Here in England every day a chapter of Genesis, and a leader in the Times.
    ET15 5.263 8 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    ET15 5.264 21 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times...
    ET15 5.265 5 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.266 11 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.
    ET15 5.267 10 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
    ET15 5.268 6 The [London] Times never disapproves of what itself has said...
    ET15 5.268 21 A statement of fact in The [London] Times is as reliable as a citation from Hansard.
    ET15 5.269 27 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    ET15 5.270 6 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative...
    ET15 5.271 2 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune...
    ET15 5.271 6 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.
    ET15 5.271 20 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.
    ET15 5.272 8 The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the governing classes...
    WD 7.165 19 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers, namely the New York Tribune and the London Times, have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    QO 8.196 21 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times...

London, Tower of, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.3 4 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London at the Tower stairs.

London, Tower of, n. (3)

    ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand...
    ET13 5.230 25 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument or the Tower...
    Carl 10.490 12 ...[Carlyle] is also as remarkable in England as the Tower of London...

London University, n. (1)

    ET13 5.223 27 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder of the London University...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

Londoner, n. (1)

    ET1 5.18 25 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.

Londoners, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 19 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...

lone, adj. (6)

    F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
    CbW 6.272 15 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation.
    Mem 12.103 12 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth.
    Pray 12.352 11 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
    EurB 12.369 18 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in the air, and was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...
    Let 12.393 13 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

loneliest, adj. (5)

    SovE 10.195 2 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    Schr 10.268 13 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places...
    MMEm 10.428 11 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    Wom 11.425 9 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.
    Let 12.397 1 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...

loneliness, n. (2)

    Tran 1.344 12 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances...
    TPar 11.288 2 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into...a feeling of loneliness and hostility to what was reckoned respectable.

lonely, adj. (32)

    LE 1.174 1 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    LE 1.174 2 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    Tran 1.342 11 [Transcendentalists] are lonely;...
    Tran 1.342 12 [Transcendentalists] are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely;...
    Comp 2.91 9 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place...
    OS 2.296 5 ...in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of [the saints' and demigods'] memory...
    Pt1 3.29 26 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Nat2 3.169 20 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    SwM 4.105 25 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
    NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    ET1 5.15 4 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar [Carlyle] nourished his mighty heart.
    ET1 5.15 21 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle];...
    ET8 5.135 13 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...sulking in a lonely house;...
    ET10 5.162 19 Scandinavian Thor, who once...built galleys by lonely fiords, in England has advanced with the times...
    ET16 5.285 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...
    SS 7.7 24 Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
    Cour 7.255 25 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
    OA 7.330 13 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    PI 8.74 3 Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith...
    PI 8.74 4 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism.
    PC 8.217 3 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour... and as lonely and as hated as Dante before them.
    Insp 8.293 19 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now a principle appears to all...
    Dem1 10.4 17 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter, to be rebuked by the cold, lonely, silent midnight...
    Dem1 10.21 4 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending on the lonely traveller...can well be spared.
    Dem1 10.21 5 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on the lonely farmer's house...can well be spared.
    Edc1 10.142 9 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born deaf and dumb, and dedicated to a narrow and lonely life.
    SovE 10.200 7 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    FRep 11.534 22 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where a man is made a hero by the varied emergencies of his lonely farm...
    MLit 12.334 18 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?

Lonely, n. (1)

    OS 2.296 10 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...

lonesome, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.228 27 ...what is more lonesome and sad than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay?

long, adj. (205)

    Nat 1.17 5 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    AmS 1.81 20 ...our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
    AmS 1.101 5 In the long period of his preparation [the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
    AmS 1.105 5 It is a mischievous notion that...the world was finished a long time ago.
    AmS 1.110 26 That which had been negligently trodden under foot by those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    DSA 1.132 5 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
    LE 1.170 9 ...every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.176 9 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.
    MR 1.252 1 ...there will dawn ere long on our politics...a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
    MR 1.253 19 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    LT 1.266 17 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes; and for a long while none comes up to that mark;...
    Con 1.303 20 ...[the existing world] has...a long friendship and cohabitation with the powers of nature.
    Tran 1.350 14 Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
    Hist 2.22 18 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    SR 2.69 10 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
    Comp 2.103 7 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time...
    Comp 2.126 9 ...the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
    Lov1 2.176 6 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Fdsp 2.192 25 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Fdsp 2.199 22 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Fdsp 2.210 1 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.
    Prd1 2.223 2 Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale...
    Prd1 2.227 22 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love...of the conveniences of long housekeeping.
    Hsm1 2.256 19 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
    Int 2.329 18 We want in every man a long logic;...
    Int 2.331 20 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
    Int 2.334 13 It is long ere we discover how rich we are.
    Int 2.338 8 ...a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Int 2.339 5 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
    Int 2.345 26 When at long intervals we turn over [the Greek philosophers'] abstruse pages, wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few...
    Pt1 3.18 13 It does not need that a poem should be long.
    Pt1 3.41 27 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season.
    Exp 3.80 16 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations...
    Chr1 3.96 9 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.
    Chr1 3.104 23 ...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.
    Chr1 3.107 24 There is a class of men, individuals of which appear at long intervals, so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Nat2 3.169 16 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    Nat2 3.180 12 It is a long way from granite to the oyster;...
    Nat2 3.195 22 ...man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.
    Nat2 3.196 27 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.
    UGM 4.11 5 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    UGM 4.31 20 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    PPh 4.44 7 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time;...
    PPh 4.45 4 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms;...
    PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal distance to be seen;...
    SwM 4.122 21 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which...showed him through what a long ancestry his thoughts descend;...
    SwM 4.131 20 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there, for a long continuance, their lamentations;...
    MoS 4.166 11 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    ShP 4.200 8 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected, too, in long periods...
    ET1 5.18 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills...
    ET2 5.25 24 I am not a good traveller, nor have I found that long journeys yield a fair share of reasonable hours.
    ET2 5.27 5 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    ET2 5.32 8 Sea-days are long...
    ET3 5.34 14 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    ET3 5.38 10 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster;...
    ET3 5.43 10 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...
    ET4 5.55 23 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years,--say impossible to conquer, when one remembers the long sequel;...
    ET4 5.66 19 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
    ET5 5.84 26 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
    ET6 5.109 21 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long brood of children.
    ET8 5.140 20 The wrath of London...has a long memory...
    ET10 5.153 16 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    ET10 5.165 12 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET11 5.176 15 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
    ET11 5.178 25 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET11 5.180 10 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    ET13 5.216 27 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately. In the long time, it has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath.
    ET14 5.237 8 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose. For a long interval afterwards, it is not found.
    ET14 5.250 19 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
    ET16 5.284 19 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    ET16 5.284 21 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.286 4 ...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be divided by a screen.
    F 6.37 7 The long sleep is not an effect of cold...
    Wth 6.95 19 Kings are said to have long arms...
    Wth 6.95 20 Kings are said to have long arms, but every man should have long arms...
    Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
    Wth 6.114 13 ...vanity...[is] a long way leading nowhere.
    Wth 6.116 2 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Wth 6.116 4 Long marches are no hardship to [the land-owner].
    Ctr 6.142 17 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...
    Ctr 6.149 6 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Wsp 6.203 6 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who, from long habit of thinking and feeling together, it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.216 5 What a day dawns when we...have come to know that justice will be done to us; and if our genius is slow, our term will be long.
    Wsp 6.222 20 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    CbW 6.273 10 Neither is life long enough for friendship.
    Bty 6.292 13 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature,--a long nose, a sharp chin, a hump-back,--is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
    Bty 6.300 27 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples, and of high blood, and long.
    Ill 6.309 2 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    Ill 6.313 4 The chapter of fascinations is very long.
    SS 7.9 6 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    DL 7.125 25 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...
    Farm 7.151 26 'T is long before [the first planter] digs or plants at all...
    WD 7.178 14 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    WD 7.178 18 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or grand moments, that signify.
    WD 7.178 21 Life is unnecessarily long.
    Boks 7.210 11 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...
    Boks 7.220 8 ...these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one or a few at a time, at long intervals...
    Clbs 7.228 16 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    Clbs 7.228 25 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    Clbs 7.230 8 Every metaphysician must have observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.
    Cour 7.263 22 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    Cour 7.264 6 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Suc 7.289 24 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    Suc 7.297 16 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because his eyes are good...
    OA 7.321 14 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    OA 7.332 22 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life.
    OA 7.334 26 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...
    PI 8.70 16 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
    Elo2 8.112 7 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power...
    Res 8.139 8 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;... and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings.
    Res 8.150 21 The chapter of pastimes is very long.
    QO 8.193 11 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
    PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...
    PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.
    Insp 8.270 26 In the savage man, thought is infantile; and, in the civilized, unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.
    Insp 8.273 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    Insp 8.274 21 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    Insp 8.281 16 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    Grts 8.301 6 ...[greatness] has a long scale of degrees...
    Imtl 8.322 6 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Imtl 8.335 18 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
    Imtl 8.335 19 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
    Imtl 8.341 20 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
    Dem1 10.5 14 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is the ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
    Dem1 10.10 25 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    Aris 10.49 18 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen, or will in the long run give the fairest verdict and reward;...
    Aris 10.59 17 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service...
    Aris 10.59 22 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself as a Pharos through long dark years, does not exist...
    PerF 10.69 14 Art is long, and life short...
    PerF 10.85 18 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the long Providence...
    PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...works in long periods...
    Chr2 10.120 14 That which I hate and fear is really in myself, and no knife is long enough to reach to its heart.
    Supl 10.163 5 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
    Supl 10.167 19 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.
    SovE 10.186 26 'T is a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman...
    SovE 10.188 25 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea...which in long periods vindicates itself at last.
    MoL 10.252 27 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering.
    Schr 10.274 25 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    Plu 10.295 14 [Henry IV wrote] To love [Plutarch] is to love me; for he has been long time the instructor of my youth.
    Plu 10.299 17 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
    EzRy 10.383 25 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...
    EzRy 10.393 24 Was a man a sot...or too long time a bachelor...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.416 21 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
    MMEm 10.423 17 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    MMEm 10.425 16 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    MMEm 10.430 1 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?
    MMEm 10.432 6 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...
    SlHr 10.439 4 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days through the dishonors of the long defeat...
    SlHr 10.440 4 [Samuel Hoar] was...addicted to long and retired walks;...
    SlHr 10.442 5 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
    Thor 10.453 6 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...to any long engagements.
    LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
    HDC 11.32 26 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.
    HDC 11.34 9 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through...
    HDC 11.34 22 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...
    EWI 11.125 5 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
    EWI 11.145 6 ...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    War 11.153 9 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides.
    War 11.167 18 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.
    FSLC 11.189 13 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with long prospective interests...
    AsSu 11.249 2 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    JBB 11.267 7 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    ACiv 11.303 25 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...working on a long future and on permanent interests...
    EPro 11.317 27 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...
    EPro 11.318 11 ...when it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln],-one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    ALin 11.329 20 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.331 22 ...[Lincoln] had what farmers call a long head;...
    SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    SHC 11.436 16 Life is not long enough for art, nor long enough for friendship.
    PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.
    PLT 12.53 1 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again.
    II 12.84 5 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.
    Mem 12.108 26 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed...
    Mem 12.109 4 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.137 13 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
    CL 12.141 25 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs, or a long gallop of many miles in the saddle...
    CL 12.142 25 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.148 24 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.
    CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
    Bost 12.197 2 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Bost 12.202 6 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] London is a long way off...
    Bost 12.211 9 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MAng1 12.220 27 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
    MAng1 12.228 6 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    MAng1 12.240 27 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    ACri 12.295 20 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps, in long absence from food.
    ACri 12.299 4 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with... shrugs, and long commanding glances...
    ACri 12.299 7 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...
    MLit 12.322 8 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.
    MLit 12.329 10 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.
    AgMs 12.358 1 In an afternoon in April, after a long walk, I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
    AgMs 12.358 13 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    EurB 12.372 2 It is long since we have had as good a lyrist [as Tennyson];...
    EurB 12.372 3 It is long since we have had as good a lyrist [as Tennyson]; it will be long before we have his superior.
    Let 12.403 6 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides, and long intervals between hamlets and houses.

long, adv. (267)

    Nat 1.16 25 We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
    Nat 1.31 22 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.48 9 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
    Nat 1.48 25 ...so long as the active powers predominate over the reflective, we resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.67 16 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts;...
    Nat 1.68 5 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    AmS 1.88 4 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued...so long does [nature] sing.
    AmS 1.101 8 Long [the scholar] must stammer in his speech;...
    AmS 1.114 10 We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
    DSA 1.134 9 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    LE 1.156 23 Men looked...that nature, too long the mother of dwarfs, should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    LE 1.167 4 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
    LE 1.179 11 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    MN 1.208 20 Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor;...
    MN 1.222 6 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne.
    MR 1.253 17 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of kindness. They will not vote for them long.
    MR 1.254 11 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    LT 1.273 2 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    Con 1.319 16 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Tran 1.351 5 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe beckons and calls us to work.
    YA 1.376 7 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually speaking; and so long only as I am speaking to him is he of any consequence.
    YA 1.376 26 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well.
    YA 1.377 8 ...Trade, a plant which grows...as long as there is peace.
    Hist 2.10 14 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
    Hist 2.40 26 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes.
    SR 2.73 22 It is alike your interest...and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
    SR 2.87 21 Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...
    Comp 2.100 7 Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
    Comp 2.118 12 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
    SL 2.142 24 We like only such actions as have already long had the praise of men...
    SL 2.143 21 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that...which must grow out of him as long as he exists.
    Lov1 2.184 14 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    OS 2.278 4 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name, for it is theirs long beforehand...
    OS 2.278 11 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we...have long been hunting in vain.
    OS 2.283 5 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    Int 2.327 21 Long prior to the age of reflection is the thinking of the mind.
    Int 2.337 11 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject...
    Int 2.342 19 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
    Art1 2.363 22 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy. He may paint and carve only as long as he can do that.
    Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
    Pt1 3.22 10 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    Pt1 3.38 6 ...[America] will not wait long for metres.
    Exp 3.70 7 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Exp 3.80 18 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...
    Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
    Mrs1 3.131 21 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    Mrs1 3.142 5 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    Mrs1 3.143 7 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Mrs1 3.153 10 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.
    Nat2 3.189 15 A man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate.
    Pol1 3.203 2 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.212 1 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    Pol1 3.212 3 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
    NR 3.225 8 Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be! Long afterwards I find that quality elsewhere which he promised me.
    NR 3.237 17 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should...have been burned or frozen long ago.
    NR 3.240 8 As long as any man exists, there is some need of him;...
    NR 3.247 2 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    NR 3.248 13 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    NER 3.253 4 Even the insect world was to be defended,--that had been too long neglected...
    UGM 4.9 15 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain. It waits long, but its turn comes.
    UGM 4.14 24 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions, whose names may not last as long.
    UGM 4.19 10 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    UGM 4.20 16 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long.
    UGM 4.25 21 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.
    UGM 4.30 10 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place.
    UGM 4.31 9 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
    UGM 4.34 24 We have never come at the true and best benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
    PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable;...
    SwM 4.111 27 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written...to put science and the soul, long estranged from each other, at one again.
    MoS 4.162 17 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected...
    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    MoS 4.171 15 ...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only with axe and crowbar.
    ShP 4.193 12 [Elizabethan plays] have been the property of the Theatre so long...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.200 26 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of these books.
    ShP 4.218 1 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    NMW 4.223 23 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.250 21 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    NMW 4.255 5 As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I may have as many pretended friends as I please.
    NMW 4.257 17 France served [Napoleon] with life and limb and estate, as long as it could identify its interest with him;...
    NMW 4.258 20 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions.
    GoW 4.277 12 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages, and which will remain as long as the Prometheus.
    GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance here, not long ago...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    GoW 4.282 18 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.
    ET2 5.32 3 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you have long had a vacant niche for...
    ET3 5.36 17 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    ET3 5.40 16 Long of old, the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth...
    ET4 5.47 18 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET4 5.48 8 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...
    ET4 5.56 7 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
    ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
    ET4 5.67 20 This union of qualities [in the English] is fabled...long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite.
    ET7 5.123 2 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794; and the long withholden medal was accorded.
    ET10 5.156 7 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET11 5.175 21 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    ET12 5.204 23 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET12 5.206 5 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
    ET13 5.224 14 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    ET13 5.227 26 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists.
    ET14 5.232 9 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians, and was convertible into a fable not long after;...
    ET14 5.235 17 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain, long kept in the dark, were finely sensible to the double glory.
    ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
    ET16 5.277 6 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.288 24 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England.
    ET17 5.297 22 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought...
    ET19 5.312 22 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long...
    F 6.8 21 ...so long as these strokes [of Nature] are not to be parried by us they must be feared.
    Pow 6.62 15 As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
    Pow 6.62 27 As long as our people quote English standards they will miss the sovereignty of power;...
    Wth 6.112 2 As long as your genius buys, the investment is safe...
    Wth 6.121 6 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...
    Ctr 6.132 13 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Ctr 6.143 10 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    Bhr 6.187 1 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Wsp 6.230 1 How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have forgotten all his words!
    Wsp 6.230 27 ...none is accomplished so long as any are incomplete;...
    Wsp 6.232 10 I am not afraid of accident as long as I am in my place.
    CbW 6.251 21 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
    CbW 6.273 26 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
    Bty 6.289 3 The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
    Bty 6.297 24 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Ill 6.321 12 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    Elo1 7.61 15 ...every man is an orator, how long soever he may have been a mute...
    Elo1 7.67 3 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits, long unknown to themselves...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
    Elo1 7.94 10 ...a fact-speaker of any kind, [the people] will long follow;...
    Farm 7.141 12 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.142 17 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working.
    Farm 7.142 26 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
    Farm 7.146 26 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied.
    WD 7.169 26 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus.
    Boks 7.207 8 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Herrick; and Milton, Marvell and Dryden, not long after.
    Boks 7.219 26 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him.
    Clbs 7.224 1 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    Clbs 7.230 2 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Clbs 7.246 20 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts!
    Cour 7.257 18 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    Cour 7.260 4 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere...
    Cour 7.264 26 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Cour 7.273 27 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted...
    Cour 7.277 10 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties, because they come only so long as they are used;...
    Suc 7.293 2 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.
    Suc 7.294 1 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    OA 7.318 6 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...
    OA 7.321 25 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
    OA 7.326 3 It has been long already fixed what [the old lawyer] can do...
    OA 7.328 6 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    OA 7.328 12 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    OA 7.331 10 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore,--long enough to read everything that was worth reading...
    PI 8.16 16 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such...
    PI 8.23 26 How long it took to find out what a day was...
    PI 8.43 17 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.68 10 What we once admired as poetry has long since come to be a sound of tin pans;...
    SA 8.82 20 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    SA 8.84 18 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    Elo2 8.123 5 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.123 23 Here is the concluding paragraph [of John Quincy Adams's final lecture], which long resounded in Cambridge...
    Res 8.152 18 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    QO 8.180 23 Hegel preexists in Proclus, and, long before, in Heraclitus and Parmenides.
    QO 8.181 16 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.191 6 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we... shall return to [an author] as long as he serves us so well.
    PPo 8.255 9 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    Insp 8.270 9 We are very glad...that [the aboriginal man's] doleful experiences were got through with so very long ago.
    Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
    Imtl 8.332 7 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.
    Imtl 8.335 5 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...
    Imtl 8.350 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest.
    Aris 10.38 20 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    Aris 10.38 21 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous.
    Aris 10.47 14 As long as I am in my place, I am safe.
    Aris 10.57 25 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who...has long ago made up its conclusion that it is impossible to fail.
    PerF 10.77 13 Certain thoughts, certain observations, long familiar to me in night-watches and daylights, would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    Chr2 10.114 19 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long silent on Slavery...wheeled in line for Emancipation.
    Chr2 10.116 5 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss...
    Edc1 10.136 12 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    Edc1 10.142 17 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Edc1 10.147 9 Pardon in [a boy] no blunder. Then he will give you solid satisfaction as long as he lives.
    Supl 10.167 5 ...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said: I have known him long...and I believe him capable of virtue.
    SovE 10.185 4 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body, and, as long as he knows no more, we justify him;...
    SovE 10.191 20 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries, and it will tax the faith of man to wait so long.
    SovE 10.207 17 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek...for that which is lawfully above us, we shall not long look in vain.
    Prch 10.232 17 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...
    Schr 10.279 24 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are excellent as long as subordinated;...
    Plu 10.293 8 Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
    Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented...as living long in Rome in great esteem...
    Plu 10.296 7 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].
    Plu 10.322 24 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.
    LLNE 10.327 25 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone.
    LLNE 10.362 18 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm], perhaps as long as the colony held together;...
    LLNE 10.367 12 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped with joy.
    MMEm 10.420 16 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means...
    MMEm 10.425 21 ...there is a sombre music in the whirl of times so long gone by.
    MMEm 10.427 22 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was decreed, was fixed.
    Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
    Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted. Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    GSt 10.506 25 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.7 11 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    HDC 11.70 4 ...if any person or persons...so long as there is a duty on tea, shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them... as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.83 10 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck], long a resident in this place.
    HDC 11.83 11 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown.
    HDC 11.86 24 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    HDC 11.86 26 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    EWI 11.106 25 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...
    EWI 11.145 15 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved...in kitchens and shoe-shops, so long...
    War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
    FSLC 11.192 24 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity? As long as men have bowels, they will disobey.
    FSLC 11.201 21 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLC 11.206 2 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    AsSu 11.249 10 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position. He sat long silent and studious.
    AKan 11.261 22 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man, used long since...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...
    JBS 11.278 19 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    ACiv 11.301 5 A democratic statesman said to me, long since, that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.
    ACiv 11.304 27 ...as long as we fight without any affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    EPro 11.314 14 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    EPro 11.323 2 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    ALin 11.336 7 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    SMC 11.354 3 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    SMC 11.358 17 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
    SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.
    EdAd 11.384 19 Keep our eyes as long as we can on this picture [of America], we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this power and population...
    EdAd 11.390 20 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
    Koss 11.397 4 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.
    Koss 11.398 11 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    RBur 11.442 27 ...I am detaining you too long.
    Humb 11.456 6 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity.
    FRO2 11.485 11 I think we have disputed long enough [about religion].
    FRO2 11.486 11 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
    FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
    PLT 12.25 27 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
    PLT 12.39 2 A man is intellectual...so long as he has no engagement in any thought or feeling which can hinder him from looking at it as somewhat foreign.
    PLT 12.60 9 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
    II 12.68 11 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    II 12.74 5 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it...
    II 12.85 25 That you have done long ago helps you now.
    Mem 12.92 17 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you, so long as you are capable of such crime.
    Mem 12.101 24 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.
    Mem 12.109 14 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory]...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CInt 12.114 13 When the war came to his own city, [Michaelangelo]... defended Florence as long as he was obeyed.
    CInt 12.130 12 Sit low and wait long;...
    CInt 12.131 23 I have detained you too long;...
    CW 12.171 17 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    CW 12.172 2 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the Country did;...
    Bost 12.199 19 What should hinder that this America, so long kept in reserve from the intellectual races until they should grow to it...should have its happy ports...
    Bost 12.209 10 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    Bost 12.209 21 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    Bost 12.211 6 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./
    MAng1 12.221 5 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years; we ought to say, rather, as long as he lived.
    MAng1 12.221 17 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
    MAng1 12.231 20 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since...rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...
    Milt1 12.248 14 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
    Milt1 12.252 7 Milton the polemic has lost his popularity long ago;...
    Milt1 12.261 12 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...
    ACri 12.295 12 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...
    ACri 12.301 21 When Samuel Dexter, long since, argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.
    MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
    WSL 12.342 13 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
    Pray 12.352 18 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them. I am tired to stay long, because my mind is not free...
    Pray 12.355 22 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
    AgMs 12.362 15 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources; otherwise his farm had ruined him long since;...
    PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.
    Let 12.397 20 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

Long Parliament, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 27 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...

Long Parliament's, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.158 26 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn of Lord Fairfax, the Long Parliament's general, his passion for antiquarian studies;...

long, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.227 1 ...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays by himself.
    EurB 12.370 15 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long for rain and frost.

long-armed, adj. (1)

    CL 12.149 3 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!

long-attached, adj. (1)

    Pray 12.352 4 When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure to converse with him...

long-avowed, adj. (1)

    EPro 11.317 1 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

long-civilized, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.30 14 Hundreds of writers may be found in every long-civilized nation who...believe...that they see and utter truths...

long-drawn, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 20 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!

longed, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.115 1 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    MMEm 10.416 5 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome. Oh, could this state of mind continue, death would not be longed for.

longen, v. (1)

    CL 12.136 9 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

long-enduring, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.336 5 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.

longer, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.71 5 When men are innocent, life shall be longer...
    Chr1 3.89 18 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000, and usually it is much longer.
    ET16 5.286 3 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
    Wth 6.86 9 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Bhr 6.177 25 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight...
    Civ 7.32 14 ...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion, of longer or better-directed industry;...I see what cubic values America has...
    PPo 8.243 14 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
    Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill...a longer term than Nature here allows him.
    Mem 12.98 20 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look behind you. I cannot see that your train is any longer than it was in childhood.

longer, adv. (150)

    Nat 1.13 19 [Man] no longer waits for favoring gales...
    Nat 1.50 6 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces...are no longer seen;...
    Nat 1.57 12 ...life is no longer irksome...
    Nat 1.71 21 ...having made for himself this huge shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets...
    AmS 1.99 3 ...when the fancy no longer paints...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    AmS 1.99 4 ...when thoughts are no longer apprehended...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    AmS 1.108 25 I ought not to delay longer to add what I have to say of nearer reference to the time and to this country.
    AmS 1.111 27 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room...
    AmS 1.115 21 The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity...
    DSA 1.132 4 There is no longer a necessary reason for my being.
    LE 1.160 8 ...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command any longer.
    LE 1.180 22 [Napoleon] no longer calculated the chance of the cannon ball.
    MN 1.197 10 ...we no longer hold [nature] by the hand;...
    MN 1.209 21 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him, so that he shall not any longer separate it from himself in his thought;...
    MN 1.217 8 ...[Love] is that in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...
    MN 1.221 12 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    MR 1.230 11 Had I waited a day longer to speak, I had been too late.
    Con 1.318 26 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Con 1.322 11 ...not to balance reasons for and against the establishment any longer, and if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Con 1.325 27 ...The law...makes [the intemperate, covetous person] worse the longer it protects him.
    YA 1.375 3 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country, but that will be felt not until we are no longer countrymen.
    Hist 2.38 20 History no longer shall be a dull book.
    SR 2.67 1 Man...is no longer upright;...
    SR 2.72 22 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.
    SR 2.73 8 I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you.
    Comp 2.111 17 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him...[my neighbor' s] eyes no longer seek mine;...
    Comp 2.119 9 The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you;...
    Comp 2.123 2 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...
    Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth...
    SL 2.140 19 It is not an excuse any longer for [a man's] deeds that they are the custom of his trade.
    Lov1 2.172 15 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers.
    Lov1 2.178 3 [The lover] does not longer appertain to his family and society;...
    Lov1 2.180 2 The statue is then beautiful...when it...can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand...
    Fdsp 2.194 15 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand...no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe.
    Fdsp 2.216 17 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and no longer a mate for frogs and worms, dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    OS 2.297 8 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters last a little longer...
    Cir 2.317 11 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Cir 2.317 11 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Int 2.327 6 ...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of destiny.
    Int 2.344 4 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be no longer an alarming meteor...
    Art1 2.366 10 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Art1 2.366 25 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
    Art1 2.367 27 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
    Pt1 3.38 19 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Pt1 3.40 20 Comes [the poet] to that power, his genius is no longer exhaustible.
    Pt1 3.41 8 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer.
    Pt1 3.41 10 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.59 8 There is now no longer any right course of action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
    Exp 3.77 25 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
    Chr1 3.96 4 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
    Chr1 3.98 5 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...
    Chr1 3.115 7 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Nat2 3.173 21 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
    Nat2 3.179 9 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Pol1 3.203 25 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    Pol1 3.205 27 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    NR 3.243 3 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.243 27 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it, and no longer attempts to pass through it...
    NER 3.276 12 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    PPh 4.46 3 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.77 17 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    SwM 4.144 15 I think, sometimes, [Swedenborg] will not be read longer.
    MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    ShP 4.193 10 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them first.
    ShP 4.193 15 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    NMW 4.239 3 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence...no longer required an answer.
    NMW 4.242 2 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
    GoW 4.269 19 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver...
    GoW 4.279 8 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name;...
    ET1 5.3 14 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood.
    ET2 5.29 10 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea], but the dread of the sea remains longer.
    ET4 5.53 11 ...as you enter Scotland, the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET5 5.75 19 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
    ET6 5.114 4 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen remain over their wine an hour longer...
    ET11 5.191 25 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
    ET13 5.230 13 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET14 5.248 27 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.249 17 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET14 5.255 5 The fact is, say [the English] over their wine, all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; it won't do any longer.
    ET14 5.257 10 [Wordsworth] has written longer than he was inspired.
    F 6.26 14 Where [the mind] shines, Nature is no longer intrusive...
    Pow 6.64 11 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.
    Ctr 6.163 22 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Wsp 6.228 19 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer...
    Art2 7.42 11 [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.
    Elo1 7.78 5 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has...settled it with himself that he will no longer stick at anything.
    WD 7.164 21 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that.
    Cour 7.259 15 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with burglars and ruffians in the streets...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    PI 8.49 3 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    PI 8.61 10 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am known no longer...
    PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was America or Australia...
    SA 8.85 7 ...work and starve a little longer.
    Insp 8.281 19 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.293 7 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he will no longer care to impart it...
    Imtl 8.342 9 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence, when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
    Dem1 10.16 12 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him. His eyes were holden that he could not see. But he learns that such risks he may no longer run.
    Dem1 10.16 16 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
    Aris 10.58 16 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown; then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall tumble...
    Chr2 10.99 19 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it...no longer believes because of thy saying, but because it has recognized them in itself.
    Chr2 10.110 11 ...Mahomet is no longer accursed;...
    Chr2 10.110 11 ...Voltaire is no longer a scarecrow;...
    Supl 10.174 5 I will bask in the common sun a while longer.
    SovE 10.201 20 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    Prch 10.220 26 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...the face seems no longer that of an enemy.
    Prch 10.236 27 We no longer recite the old creeds of Athanasius or Arius...
    Schr 10.285 12 The gun [men of talent] have pointed can defend nothing but itself, nor itself any longer than the man is by.
    Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy.
    LLNE 10.328 7 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...
    SlHr 10.439 2 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days through the dishonors of the long defeat...
    Thor 10.471 12 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    Thor 10.477 25 ...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    EWI 11.108 15 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true; and if they were, he could no longer rest.
    EWI 11.130 16 ...if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens [free negroes] are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law to save them. Fellow citizens, this crime will not be hushed up any longer.
    EWI 11.134 14 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
    EWI 11.138 23 Up to this day...we bow low to [statesmen] as to the great. We cannot extend this deference to them any longer.
    War 11.167 11 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men.
    War 11.174 2 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
    FSLC 11.181 19 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news.
    FSLC 11.209 7 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
    FSLN 11.226 8 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was no longer doubtful...
    FSLN 11.226 9 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was...no longer feeble and apologetic and proposing soon to end itself...
    FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    FSLN 11.231 9 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
    ALin 11.336 20 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that this heroic deliverer [Lincoln] could no longer serve us;...
    EdAd 11.389 1 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    FRO1 11.477 7 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...and I supposed myself no longer subject to your call when I saw this house.
    FRO1 11.478 6 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us.
    FRO2 11.489 20 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...
    FRO2 11.489 21 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example, a model; no longer a heart-stirring hero...
    CPL 11.494 6 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
    FRep 11.534 8 We lose our invention and descend into imitation. A man no longer conducts his own life.
    PLT 12.5 5 It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us, but only man;...
    PLT 12.33 2 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
    PLT 12.38 5 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we are no longer brute lumps whirled by Fate...
    PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    II 12.86 18 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
    Mem 12.107 22 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but a reminder of its law...
    Bost 12.210 18 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    MAng1 12.236 22 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    MAng1 12.241 19 So vehement was this desire [for death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
    Milt1 12.272 24 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws;...
    ACri 12.298 3 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
    ACri 12.301 15 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me, and no longer remembered his first emporium.
    MLit 12.313 20 ...the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...
    EurB 12.377 16 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.
    Let 12.393 6 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...
    Let 12.394 8 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with their company. They...will not bear it much longer.
    Let 12.398 10 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.

longer-lived, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.336 6 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.

longest, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.70 19 To [spirit]...the longest series of events, the oldest chronologies are young and recent.
    Exp 3.77 2 ...the longest love or aversion has a speedy term.
    Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
    PPh 4.77 3 The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
    Cour 7.265 26 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we, like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how short is the longest arm of malice...
    EurB 12.372 7 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.

longest-lived, adj. (1)

    LE 1.177 1 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language,-the... longest-lived of man's creations...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...

longevities, n. (1)

    SHC 11.431 14 Man is a moth among these longevities [trees].

longevity, n. (10)

    OS 2.273 10 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    ShP 4.216 15 [Shakespeare] touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
    ET5 5.75 8 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
    Grts 8.320 22 The man...who sees longevity in his cause;...he it is whom we seek...
    Thor 10.484 23 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...
    Mem 12.90 13 We like longevity...
    Trag 12.412 8 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose, an expression of health, deserving their longevity...

long-forgotten, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.242 7 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society.

long-haired, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.357 9 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...long-haired, grizzled...

longing, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.184 5 Cause and effect...the longing for harmony between the soul and the circumstance...predominate later...
    PPo 8.252 22 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    Bost 12.185 3 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

longings, n. (3)

    DSA 1.142 21 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety and their longings for civil freedom.
    SwM 4.140 21 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
    Insp 8.285 17 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/...

Longinus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.202 19 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus...

longitude, n. (5)

    MN 1.205 9 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    Tran 1.358 23 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...
    ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    Civ 7.24 19 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar observation and by chronometer...
    Aris 10.39 4 I wish catholic men, who by their science and skill are at home in every latitude and longitude...

longitudes, n. (3)

    UGM 4.13 1 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    MMEm 10.433 7 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
    Thor 10.468 25 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...

long-lived, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.33 22 ...Long-lived trees make roots first;...
    PI 8.41 14 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.
    Imtl 8.336 4 These long-lived or long-enduring objects are to us, as we see them, only symbols of somewhat in us far longer-lived.

longs, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...

longs, v. (2)

    Grts 8.305 18 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
    FRep 11.535 14 What this country longs for is personalities...

long-sighted, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.136 21 Let [the young man] be led up with a long-sighted forbearance...

long-winded, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.140 5 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done...by men of endurance,--deep-chested, long-winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.

Lonsdale, Earl of [William (1)

    ET11 5.182 22 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.

Loo, n. (1)

    UGM 4.14 18 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent...

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