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2510 1| tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, 2511 1| I could never tell from inspecting such a load whether it belonged 2512 1| years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, 2513 18| proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last. Suddenly an influx 2514 3| noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality 2515 1| lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had 2516 1| so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not 2517 4| culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further 2518 1| and not exchange it for an insufficient quantity of more luxurious 2519 3| earth is not continent but insular. This is as important as 2520 3| appeared like a thin crust insulated and floated even by this 2521 8| We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by 2522 1| furniture," as whether it is insured or not. "But what shall 2523 12| daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the 2524 1| has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford 2525 1| constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or cortex; but our shirts 2526 4| for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as 2527 1| proportion as we are morally and intellectually his superiors! At present 2528 1| of these savages with the intellectualness of the civilized man? According 2529 4| money for things which more intelligent men know to be of far more 2530 1| send light? Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would 2531 1| I intend to build me a house which 2532 6| as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious 2533 4| athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life 2534 6| which they leave, either intentionally or accidentally. One has 2535 1| compared with the shipping interests? Does not he drive for Squire 2536 15| own blue. But no weather interfered fatally with my walks, or 2537 5| points of the compass; yet it interferes with no man's business, 2538 19| stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart? black 2539 18| little streams overlap and interlace one with another, exhibiting 2540 10| pellucid as ever. Not an intermitting spring! Perhaps on that 2541 10| dark brown or black spots, intermixed with a few faint blood-red 2542 13| while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans 2543 19| writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors 2544 19| old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal 2545 17| and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth 2546 17| line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth 2547 3| even by this small sheet of interverting water, and I was reminded 2548 10| thread of whose history is interwoven with its own; not from him 2549 12| not mistake. It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks 2550 12| them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight 2551 5| their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the 2552 1| offered him, he had so many intra ones. This ducking was the 2553 16| expose and disgrace this intruder from Hudson's Bay by exhibiting 2554 13| his days in some Hotel des Invalides, I do not know; but I thought 2555 18| and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible.~ ~ 2556 14| Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and 2557 10| surface of a lake." When you invert your head, it looks like 2558 12| vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. In the 2559 1| and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions 2560 5| effectual cure for such inveteracies as these tails exhibit is 2561 1| meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well 2562 8| ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, 2563 12| unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity 2564 18| the strong appetite and inviolable health of Nature was my 2565 17| among them they were wont to invite me to saw pit-fashion with 2566 1| irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One 2567 19| would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse. So will help you 2568 6| torrent. We are not wholly involved in Nature. I may be either 2569 18| so labors with the idea inwardly. The atoms have already 2570 1| labor. They have no friend Iolaus to burn with a hot iron 2571 1| Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one 2572 12| moral transfixes us. Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, 2573 17| and raised by grappling irons and block and tackle, worked 2574 11| broken withal, and bucket irrecoverable. Meanwhile the right culinary 2575 10| The shore is irregular enough not to be monotonous. 2576 17| course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance 2577 1| nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift 2578 1| runs his father in debt irretrievably.~ ~ 2579 8| but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by 2580 9| even accustomed to make an irruption into some houses, where 2581 1| Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race 2582 1| the Chinese and Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, 2583 14| North West Territory or the Isle of Man, tell what is parliamentary 2584 1| more to use this proverb in Israel.~ ~ 2585 19| to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored 2586 11| evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly 2587 19| have had the seven-years' itch, we have not seen the seventeen-year 2588 8| the day of some sort of itching and disease in the horizon, 2589 3| quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that 2590 18| than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable 2591 16| suddenly, before you could say Jack Robinson, he would be in 2592 1| changes in them. But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and 2593 1| boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had 2594 18| joy of his Lord. Why the jailer does not leave open his 2595 14| New York; destined to be jammed, to satisfy the tastes of 2596 16| find the following entry. Jan. 18th, 1742-3, "John Melven 2597 19| toward a wornout China or Japan, but leads on direct, a 2598 1| jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that 2599 10| when a vase of water is jarred, the trembling circles seek 2600 16| away on whirring wings, jarring the snow from the dry leaves 2601 12| day I picked up the lower jaw of a hog, with white and 2602 13| vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose 2603 5| on the ridge-pole, a blue jay screaming beneath the window, 2604 12| lady indulges a taste for jelly made of a calf's foot, or 2605 13| some stray member of the jerbilla family. Once I was surprised 2606 1| will be discharged upon a Jersey shore; - to be your own 2607 1| The Jesuits were quite balked by those 2608 4| of all the worthies, with Jesus Christ himself, and let " 2609 9| dry goods store and the jeweller's; and others by the hair 2610 18| looked like a string of jewels. Ah! I have penetrated to 2611 16| long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid 2612 13| and shop and unfinished jobs. But they were too often 2613 1| Old Johnson, in his "Wonder-Working 2614 1| keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough 2615 6| passably well; I was not joking. And so I went home to my 2616 1| not always know whether Jonas or Solomon worked in a particular 2617 5| dismal scream is truly Ben Jonsonian. Wise midnight bags! It 2618 15| stood round our engine, jostled one another, expressed our 2619 1| time I was reporter to a journal, of no very wide circulation, 2620 8| Ceres and the Terrestrial Jove, but to the infernal Plutus 2621 7| near together, cheek by jowl, and feel each other's breath; 2622 1| exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. 2623 17| could not be true, for, judging from his acquaintance with 2624 18| Persidaque, et radiis juga subdita matutinis."~ ~ 2625 18| many a first spring day, jumping from hummock to hummock, 2626 11| Valhalla, and the creeping juniper covers the ground with wreaths 2627 5| cocoanut husks, the old junk, gunny bags, scrap iron, 2628 6| who was the daughter of Juno and wild lettuce, and who 2629 19| hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; 2630 1| shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the 2631 19| smoothed and polished the staff Kalpa was no longer the pole-star; 2632 18| he had helped to lay her keel - who has come to his growth, 2633 4| culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that 2634 10| stirring them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild 2635 14| kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction 2636 8| had perchance, as Sir Kenelm Digby thinks likely, attracted " 2637 5| will slink back to their kennels in disgrace, or perchance 2638 1| heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that 2639 3| is which was never old! "Kieou-he-yu (great dignitary of the 2640 1| kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves 2641 8| float in the heavens; such kindredship is in nature. The hawk is 2642 1| courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift 2643 1| employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder 2644 18| turning over and over like a kite, and then recovering from 2645 13| met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, 2646 19| foundation. Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom 2647 1| add water gradually, and knead it thoroughly. When you 2648 17| window under my feet, where, kneeling to drink, I look down into 2649 10| carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew 2650 3| day of it. Why should we knock under and go with the stream? 2651 6| traveller passed my house, or knocked at my door, more than if 2652 19| to remember to make a knot in their thread before they 2653 1| set who has got through a knot-hole or gateway where his sledge 2654 14| rough brown boards full of knots, and rafters with the bark 2655 10| run after the diamond of Kohinoor. They are too pure to have 2656 18| double-lobed), with the liquid l behind it pressing it forward. 2657 18| peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the 2658 8| result. A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers bound 2659 8| festoons; I the home-staying, laborious native of the soil. But 2660 4| degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each 2661 1| durum sumus, experiensque laborum,~ ~ 2662 1| himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, 2663 18| you look down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses 2664 5| shelter himself and his lading against sun, wind, and rain 2665 8| Evelyn says, "no compost or laetation whatsoever comparable to 2666 1| countries than this. Samuel Laing says that "the Laplander 2667 3| wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, 2668 1| and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access 2669 10| there are no suckers nor lampreys here, I know not by what 2670 10| Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the 2671 17| are detained and partially land-locked. These inclinations are 2672 17| the Indian seas, and is landed in ports of which Alexander 2673 9| the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, 2674 18| globus, lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words); 2675 1| Samuel Laing says that "the Laplander in his skin dress, and in 2676 1| carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was perfectly 2677 18| lip-labium, from labor (?) - laps or lapses from the sides 2678 18| from labor (?) - laps or lapses from the sides of the cavernous 2679 18| flow or slip downward, a lapsing; lobos, globus, lobe, globe; 2680 18| leaves of fat (leibo, labor, lapsus, to flow or slip downward, 2681 1| Lard...................... 0. 2682 1| unless he has a well-stocked larder.~ ~ 2683 12| much less than in that of larvae. The voracious caterpillar 2684 16| have not got lungs and a larynx as well as yourself? Boo-hoo, 2685 15| referred indifferently to the last-uttered or the forth-coming jest. 2686 18| thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces 2687 7| thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and 2688 8| considerably before the latest were in the ground; indeed 2689 19| foolishly drive a nail into mere lath and plastering; such a deed 2690 1| Laths................................. 2691 1| ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, 2692 | latterly 2693 5| flock of wild geese or a laughing loon on the pond, and a 2694 9| stayed late in town, to launch myself into the night, especially 2695 15| dreams disturbed; and when he launched himself off and flapped 2696 18| flow down the slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out 2697 1| Manus mortariumque bene lavato. Farinam in mortarium indito, 2698 10| hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did a thousand 2699 12| too trivial for the Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may 2700 7| kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housekeepers who 2701 19| possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front our 2702 1| it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth 2703 2| Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue~ ~ 2704 18| The radicals of lobe are lb, the soft mass of the b ( 2705 15| field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse. But to return toward 2706 11| On thy rail-fenced lea."...~ ~ 2707 8| planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster. It was 2708 19| I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition 2709 15| tracks of a woodchopper leading from my door, and found 2710 5| to the least distended, leakiest, and flabbiest paunched, 2711 13| motions. At length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench 2712 19| which kicks over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs 2713 12| who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and 2714 1| is supposed, taught the leavening process, and through the 2715 1| I once heard a reverend lecturer on England, a man of learning 2716 1| boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute 2717 1| apology. My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco 2718 16| now found here; and in his ledger, Feb, 7th, 1743, Hezekiah 2719 16| hunt bears on Fair Haven Ledges, and exchange their skins 2720 8| up and be as green as a leek in two days. A long war, 2721 14| premises, and might have been legally ordered off, but I am not 2722 16| is either winged or it is legged. It is hardly as if you 2723 5| carload of torn sails is more legible and interesting now than 2724 6| great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than 2725 13| red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered 2726 1| they who go to soirees and legislative balls must have new coats, 2727 1| Shelter and Clothing we legitimately retain our own internal 2728 18| lungs and the leaves of fat (leibo, labor, lapsus, to flow 2729 14| the light, and with a lamp lengthen out the day. Thus he goes 2730 17| I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and 2731 14| flattish, or perhaps slightly lenticular, with a rounded edge, a 2732 18| are reminded of coral, of leopard's paws or birds' feet, of 2733 10| respects, however, it is a lesser twin of Walden. They are 2734 15| winter that I labored with a lethargy - which, by the way, I never 2735 6| daughter of Juno and wild lettuce, and who had the power of 2736 16| follow thought his piece was levelled, and whang! - the fox, rolling 2737 8| distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, 2738 10| and tipped over as if by a lever, and thus a stop put to 2739 16| was its nature. (Lepus, levipes, light-foot, some think.)~ ~ 2740 1| admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed 2741 19| rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, 2742 16| man came to my hut from Lexington to inquire after his hound 2743 18| flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see 2744 14| to which the plasterer is liable. I was surprised to see 2745 1| but our shirts are our liber, or true bark, which cannot 2746 4| with wisdom we shall learn liberality. The solitary hired man 2747 4| Zoroaster then, and through the liberalizing influence of all the worthies, 2748 4| college-bred and so-called liberally educated men here and elsewhere 2749 8| felt proud to know that the liberties of Massachusetts and of 2750 3| occupant; the hollow and lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, 2751 11| neat a hole and beautifully lichen-painted, perfect in all its details, 2752 9| woman, and child might get a lick at him. Of course, those 2753 10| which no beard grows. It licks its chaps from time to time. 2754 1| night, and hook down the lid, and so have freedom in 2755 1| civilized man? According to Liebig, man's body is a stove, 2756 4| beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors 2757 1| shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater 2758 9| having to raise my hand to lift the latch, I have not been 2759 18| but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year's 2760 5| pressed, and bound round with ligatures, and after a twelve years' 2761 16| nature. (Lepus, levipes, light-foot, some think.)~ ~ 2762 7| Fearing that they would be light-headed for want of food and also 2763 14| Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,~ ~ 2764 14| When the villagers were lighting their fires beyond the horizon, 2765 10| it but the deed which a like-minded neighbor or legislature 2766 10| purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that 2767 1| Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must 2768 12| fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an 2769 13| not often look into such a limpid well. The ignorant or reckless 2770 15| mat-making, corn-parching, linen-spinning, and pottery business have 2771 6| mile distant, or by the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe. 2772 16| suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, 2773 6| are Nature's watchmen - links which connect the days of 2774 15| generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding 2775 19| dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang 2776 18| with its lobe or drop. The lip-labium, from labor (?) - laps or 2777 1| of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach"; 2778 16| door, with faint flitting lisping notes, like the tinkling 2779 5| above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and 2780 7| which were occasionally lit up with expression. He wore 2781 19| instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains. 2782 5| take the sunset sky for the livery of his train; when I hear 2783 11| here, and looked like a loafer, was getting my living like 2784 2| Achilles, Theseus. Back to thy loath'd cell;~ ~ 2785 1| amusement to bake several small loaves of this in succession, tending 2786 18| on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses 2787 18| slip downward, a lapsing; lobos, globus, lobe, globe; also 2788 10| from that of some English locality - Saffron Walden, for instance - 2789 15| town, you come to Breed's location, on the other side of the 2790 13| invented which put all other locks and cements to shame. I 2791 1| does he come round eating locusts and wild honey. I doubt 2792 1| and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, 2793 8| gives it life, and is the logic of all the labor and stir 2794 18| call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already 2795 18| too, is a thick and now loitering drop, larger or smaller; 2796 15| their story faintly to the lone wanderer a half-century 2797 6| the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque 2798 13| long way off, he uttered a long-drawn unearthly howl, probably 2799 15| snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through 2800 19| were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his 2801 13| directly under the boat. So long-winded was he and so unweariable, 2802 7| Ne looke for entertainment where 2803 15| worthy foundation. Great Looker! Great Expecter! to converse 2804 13| deliberately howls. This was his looning - perhaps the wildest sound 2805 8| elbows on knees, and reins loosely hanging in festoons; I the 2806 7| undulations. If we are merely loquacious and loud talkers, then we 2807 5| fill the pauses when their lords' clarions rested! No wonder 2808 18| strands, the separate streams losing their semicylindrical form 2809 18| with the golden dust of the lotus." And so the seasons went 2810 9| things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the 2811 13| less need to practise in Louisiana bayous. When compelled to 2812 14| fine clothes, was wont to lounge about the village once, 2813 18| with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of 2814 7| safely till nightfall - loving to dwell long upon these 2815 4| them. We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this 2816 15| have been proof against a lowland degeneracy. Alas! how little 2817 14| vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et 2818 3| as the most succinct and lucid reports under this head 2819 14| to, a consecrated grove (lucum conlucare), that is, would 2820 6| dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes. 2821 15| repeopled the woods and lulled myself asleep.~ ~ 2822 4| high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers 2823 5| no correction. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which 2824 3| may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, 2825 18| also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the 2826 1| cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and 2827 13| the patriots' side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why here 2828 4| danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he 2829 9| a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big 2830 10| and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" along its stony 2831 1| most respected class? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous 2832 16| afflicted by a species of madness, so that nothing could divert 2833 17| Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, 2834 8| if fresh, has a certain magnetism in it, by which it attracts 2835 2| Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence,~ ~ 2836 7| inhabitants. They are so vast and magnificent that the latter seem to 2837 1| and perchance build more magnificently and spend more lavishly 2838 10| which, as the limbs are magnified and distorted withal, produces 2839 1| moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin 2840 13| ants is recorded by Olaus Magnus, in which the small ones, 2841 10| flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild 2842 6| village houses so, when the maids stood ready with mop and 2843 1| more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the 2844 1| Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in 2845 1| tailor or dressmaker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort 2846 1| not he drive for Squire Make-a-stir? How godlike, how immortal, 2847 19| Any truth is better than make-believe. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing 2848 10| green tint, owing, as the makers say, to its "body," but 2849 1| excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.~ ~ 2850 13| not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use the 2851 1| amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors may return to their town."~ ~ 2852 19| their court-yard like the Mameluke bey. I delight to come to 2853 3| lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and 2854 6| eternity; and between us we manage to pass a cheerful evening 2855 1| and their internal economy managed and sustained, I wonder 2856 1| as they would with proper management on both sides. Those things 2857 14| the lake. Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted 2858 13| only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to 2859 7| and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; men of ideas 2860 5| them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a 2861 1| possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, 2862 13| pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifested the least disposition to 2863 4| worthy only of pygmies and manikins.~ ~ 2864 5| heads the next summer, the Manilla hemp and cocoanut husks, 2865 1| would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, 2866 1| cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor 2867 1| never caught much, and that, manna-wise, would dissolve again in 2868 13| order to see how he would manoeuvre, he would dive and be completely 2869 13| more reason than before. He manoeuvred so cunningly that I could 2870 16| much entertainment by their manoeuvres. One would approach at first 2871 7| George!" Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take the 2872 1| for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family 2873 1| different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating 2874 1| admiring the gewgaws upon the mantelpiece, and let him through into 2875 1| Mantle-tree iron...................... 2876 1| generation requires today. The manufacturers have learned that this taste 2877 8| even with less toil and manurance, and sustain me, for surely 2878 10| state of cultivation, being manured with the hearts and brains 2879 10| grease - spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a 2880 1| Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque bene lavato. 2881 15| woods, it then ran through a maple swamp on a foundation of 2882 17| When I had mapped the pond by the scale of 2883 4| Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and 2884 1| according to the recipe which Marcus Porcius Cato gave about 2885 5| or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in 2886 10| and remember the life of mariners. I went a - chestnutting 2887 1| you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened 2888 17| any level field. Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, 2889 14| this mine, and follow the marrowy store, yellow as beef tallow, 2890 13| produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would 2891 18| in due time I heard the martins twittering over my clearing, 2892 17| immeasurable capacity for marvellousness. But I can assure my readers 2893 12| and at the Falls of St. Mary a fisherman. He who is only 2894 14| build my chimney I studied masonry. My bricks, being second-hand 2895 1| time, laugh at each other's masquerade. Every generation laughs 2896 11| having skill to split its massive columns with any fine entering 2897 15| the basket, stable-broom, mat-making, corn-parching, linen-spinning, 2898 13| day. But I was more than a match for him on the surface. 2899 10| reflection, I have discerned a matchless and indescribable light 2900 1| I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt 2901 1| would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, 2902 1| exercise their minds as much as mathematics. If I wished a boy to know 2903 13| upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring 2904 19| important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree 2905 4| as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, 2906 7| watching the rising and maturing of a loaf of bread in the 2907 18| et radiis juga subdita matutinis."~ ~ 2908 1| a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead. Consider first 2909 8| brown thrasher - or red mavis, as some love to call him - 2910 8| particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according 2911 1| first brought over in the Mayflower, did the business for America, 2912 18| where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming 2913 18| mulleins, johnswort, hardhack, meadowsweet, and other strong-stemmed 2914 14| sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and New York; 2915 1| lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The 2916 1| when they are green.... The meaner sort are covered with mats 2917 8| and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature 2918 3| Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable 2919 1| aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such 2920 6| universal, vegetable, botanic medicines, by which she has kept herself 2921 2| That fix their seats in mediocrity,~ ~ 2922 13| of Spain. That's a true Mediterranean sky. I thought, as I have 2923 19| forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness 2924 5| awful by a certain gurgling melodiousness - I find myself beginning 2925 16| Jan. 18th, 1742-3, "John Melven Cr. by 1 Grey Fox 0-2-3"; 2926 13| dumps or a budding ecstasy. Mem. There never is but one 2927 13| There is no appearance of a membrane about them. Some thought 2928 11| Cellini tells us in his memoirs, that, after a certain terrible 2929 18| the summer to our winter memories, and is among the forms 2930 1| The false society of men-~ ~ 2931 7| chickens; but I feared the men-harriers rather.~ ~ 2932 10| them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild beasts, until I 2933 12| from brute beasts," says Mencius, "is a thing very inconsiderable; 2934 1| excepting for washing and mending, which for the most part 2935 7| They say that Menoetius lives yet, son of Actor,~ ~ 2936 10| ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well when 2937 1| to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about.~ ~ 2938 10| his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country' 2939 5| restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed. 2940 1| much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. Where is 2941 1| himself to their tender mercies he would soon be completely 2942 11| And mercurial trout,~ ~ 2943 18| changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.~ ~ 2944 6| in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must 2945 3| dinner, situated in the meridian shallows. Weather this danger 2946 10| its depth and purity as to merit a particular description. 2947 18| associated with that sport. The merlin it seemed to me it might 2948 14| Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of secondhand 2949 1| we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of 2950 1| attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the 2951 18| graves. You may melt your metals and cast them into the most 2952 4| think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes 2953 5| and events speak without metaphor, which alone is copious 2954 14| from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily 2955 7| truth of his words. He was a metaphysical puzzle to me. I have rarely 2956 18| should live to the age of Methuselah - told me - and I was surprised 2957 13| and her anxious calls and mewing, or seen her trail her mings 2958 8| felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish - for 2959 1| The Mexicans also practised a similar 2960 14| toward Fair Haven, bound for Mexico. Several times, when returning 2961 10| making fit studies for a Michael Angelo.~ ~ 2962 14| make our gun-stocks of it. Michaux, more than thirty years 2963 1| reforming - the world. Being a microcosm himself, he discovers - 2964 19| Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a 2965 14| out a cake containing a middling sized one, and turned it 2966 12| only at first, if possible, mighty hunters at last, so that 2967 12| this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could 2968 18| seeks the sea with music, or migrates to other climes in clouds. 2969 18| least is not the Turdus migratorius. The pitch pines and shrub 2970 5| reached the gelatinous, mildewy stage in the mortification 2971 1| meats men first reached the mildness and refinement of this diet, 2972 8| burst; and when there was a military turnout of which I was ignorant, 2973 3| has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmed it, and got 2974 19| runs after her calf, in milking time. I desire to speak 2975 13| on to the lakes, like the milkweed down, having looked in vain 2976 6| is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put 2977 12| are even. He goes to the mill-pond, she to her preserve-pot. 2978 8| in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth 2979 1| Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak 2980 5| cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, 2981 5| heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by 2982 5| works. For the most part, I minded not how the hours went. 2983 1| without boasting), faithfully minding my business, till it became 2984 5| be animal, vegetable, or mineral, and yet it shall be as 2985 13| beast or bird, or gradually mingle with the decaying leaves 2986 8| others had begun to hoe - the ministerial husbandman had not suspected 2987 1| But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be 2988 5| for the voices of certain minstrels by whom I was sometimes 2989 3| coins from heaven's own mint, and also of some portion 2990 4| linen paper. Says the poet Mir Camar Uddin Mast, "Being 2991 19| It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery " 2992 7| often needs repair, seemed miraculously retarded in such a case, 2993 3| distinguished elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, 2994 6| object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. 2995 13| before. He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, 2996 15| mine. It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, 2997 3| him what he was, and the misconception of his character was removed, 2998 14| loaded his trowel without mishap, with a complacent look 2999 12| followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were 3000 9| these sources, and I never missed anything but one small book, 3001 1| any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law 3002 1| heathen, and need to have a missionary sent to them. Beside, clothes 3003 12| on the head waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, 3004 16| and they were obliged to mix a large proportion of pine 3005 15| hour, and hearing a low moaning at this spot, I drew near 3006 5| permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human being - some 3007 6| to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone - but 3008 5| hoarse and solemnly grave, mocking at mirth, and the mine has 3009 19| in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The