So they took soot from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it in the air, and it caused festering boils on humans ...and animals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but h...ungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to... see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need t...o remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantling... and boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And poet lost to potato-fields, Remembering the lime and copper smell... Of the spraying barrels he is not lost Or till blossomed stalks cannot weave a spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about o...ur capital ... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground.... The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »