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Definition of Life-of-man

1. Noun. Unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico.

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Literary usage of Life-of-man

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"But the force of the life of man is the subject of our consciousness, and we call it freewill. But just as the force of gravitation—in itself ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"THE INNER LIFE OF MAN. —We are indebted to the kindness of an esteemed friend ... Inner Life of Man,' for a few passages from that admirable performance, ..."

3. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1848)
"Afterwards, three generations being run from the flood, the life of man was brought down to a fourth part of the primitive age, that was, ..."

4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"Polytheism comprises a class of Great Deities, ruling the course of Nature and the life of Man—Childbirth-god—Agriculture-god—War-god—God of the Dead—First ..."

5. An Introduction to Political Economy by Richard Theodore Ely (1901)
"CHAPTER II V THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF MAN Isolated and Social Economic Life.—A few elementary facts will serve to explain what is meant by the term econo- mic ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"studiously gather together all the forms and phases of beauty and of grandeur which the life of man and the ways of nature present for your using; ..."

7. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1875)
"The life of the will is the principal life of man, and the life of the understanding proceeds thence, ... That love ia the t*»e of the life of man, 447. ..."

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