Wit to Wolves
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
wit, n. (180)
Nat 1.13 18 The useful arts are reproductions or new
combinations by the
wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
AmS 1.94 2 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never
countervail the
least sentence or syllable of wit.
DSA 1.140 21 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's
Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain, than that
[the poor preacher] can face a
man of wit and energy and put the invitation without terror.
LE 1.157 5 ...the mark of American merit...in
eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline, but empty,-which whoso sees may fill with what wit and
character is in him...
LE 1.166 3 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for
a spontaneous
thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
LE 1.172 21 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away
before it all our little
architecture of wit and memory...
MN 1.194 22 ...the wit of man...is the grace and
presence of God.
MR 1.240 16 Only such persons interest us...who have
stood in the jaws of
need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
MR 1.244 18 We dare not trust our wit for making our
house pleasant to
our friend...
MR 1.253 17 [The people] inevitably prefer wit and
probity.
LT 1.259 19 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred
leaves, whereon a
weighty sense is inscribed, if we have the wit and the love to search
it out.
Con 1.316 16 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything
they give. I look
bigger, but I am less; I have...more books, but less wit.
Tran 1.356 26 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and
stilted;...all sallies
of wit and frolic nature are quite out of the question;...
Tran 1.358 17 ...in society...there must be a
few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest
accumulations of wit and feeling in
the bystander.
Hist 2.23 10 The home-keeping wit...is that continence
or content which
finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
SR 2.85 17 ...[man's] libraries overload his wit;...
Comp 2.98 12 For every grain of wit there is a grain of
folly.
Comp 2.124 17 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the
soul, and by
love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His
virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is
not wit.
SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is
Caesar...then the
selfsame strain of thought...wit as subtle...these all are his...
Fdsp 2.199 24 After interviews have been compassed with
long foresight
we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal
spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Fdsp 2.206 5 [Friendship] keeps company with the
sallies of the wit...
Prd1 2.230 20 There is a certain fatal dislocation in
our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the
wit and virtue in the world to
ponder the question of Reform.
Prd1 2.239 15 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out
your paradoxes...
Hsm1. 2.252 14 What shall [heroism] say then...to the
toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of
all society?
OS 2.288 22 ...the wit...does not take place of the
man.
OS 2.291 15 Souls such as these treat you as gods
would...accepting
without any admiration your wit...
Int 2.330 23 Every man, in the degree in which he has
wit and culture, finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of
living and thinking of
other men...
Int 2.333 23 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to
produce anything
like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense
knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
Int 2.341 12 ...the profound genius will cast the
likeness of all creatures
into every product of his wit.
Mrs1 3.122 2 [Good society]...is a compound result into
which every great
force enters as an ingredient, namely virtue, wit, beauty, wealth and
power.
Mrs1 3.140 3 ...besides the general infusion of wit to
heighten civility, the
direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society
as the
costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
Mrs1 3.141 16 The favorites of society...are able men
and of more spirit
than wit...
Mrs1 3.145 1 ...these fineries [of fashion] may have
grace and wit.
Pol1 3.205 16 ...the attributes of a person, his wit
and his moral energy, will
exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
NR 3.232 7 Wherever you go, a wit like your own has
been before you, and
has realized its thought.
PPh 4.57 8 Where there is great compass of wit, we
usually find
excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
PPh 4.59 21 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory
of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use...
PPh 4.71 3 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness
so remarkable as to
be a cause of wit in others...
PPh 4.75 20 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of
the wit and weight of
Socrates...
PPh 4.78 20 A chief structure of human wit...it
requires all the breath of
human faculty to know [Plato].
MoS 4.170 3 This book of Montaigne the world has
endorsed by translating
it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;
and
that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers,
soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
ShP 4.197 8 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true
stone, and puts it in
high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer
perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi. They felt that all wit was their wit.
ShP 4.197 9 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true
stone, and puts it in
high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer
perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi. They felt that all wit was their wit.
ShP 4.199 17 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast
a Delphi whereof to ask
concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay?
and to
have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could
contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of
originality;...
ShP 4.203 5 If it need wit to know wit, according to
the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
NMW 4.227 8 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a
bureau for all
the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
GoW 4.272 25 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's]
wit, the past and
the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
GoW 4.283 8 ...men distinguished for wit and learning,
in England and
France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
ET1 5.10 5 ...year after year the scholar must still go
back to Landor...for
wisdom, wit, and indignation that are unforgetable.
ET3 5.39 25 The London fog...sometimes justifies the
epigram on the
climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a
foul
day, looking down one.
ET4 5.47 2 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or
litheness, or stature that
give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
ET5 5.99 8 Every nation has yielded some good wit...
ET6 5.112 23 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron
saints of England, of
whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.
ET7 5.124 1 A slow temperament...has given occasion to
the observation
that English wit comes afterwards...
ET7 5.125 18 This English stolidity contrasts with
French wit and tact.
ET8 5.127 14 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the
English] by French
travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their
neighbors.
ET10 5.167 10 The incessant repetition of the same
hand-work dwarfs the
man, robs him of his strength, wit and versatility...
ET11 5.194 12 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to
his friend that he
could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that
they
were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion of
the vigorous English
understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
ET14 5.249 1 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 5.251 6 ...there is no end to the graces and
amenities, wit, sensibility
and erudition of the learned class [in England].
ET15 5.271 15 It is a new trait of the nineteenth
century, that the wit and
humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
ET16 5.274 8 Art and high art is a favorite target for
[Carlyle's] wit.
ET19 5.310 6 ...the political, the social, the parietal
wit of Punch go duly
every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
F 6.47 16 ...when a man is the victim of his fate,
has...a club-foot and a club
in his wit;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Pow 6.59 15 The weaker party finds that none of his
information or wit
quite fits the occasion.
Pow 6.60 3 The second man is as good as the
first,--perhaps better; but has
not stoutness or stomach, as the first has, and so his wit seems
over-fine or
under-fine.
Pow 6.75 24 It requires a great deal of boldness and a
great deal of caution
to make a great fortune [said Rothschild], and when you have got it, it
requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Wth 6.103 8 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy,
or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat
bread and dwell in houses to
share and exert.
Ctr 6.140 14 There are people who...remain literalists,
after hearing the
music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
Ctr 6.141 21 Books, as containing the finest records of
human wit, must
always enter into our notion of culture.
Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face
like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of
topics...
Bhr 6.167 16 Little [man] says to [graceful women,
chosen men]/, So
dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of
wit, of
words, of rest./
Wsp 6.205 16 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let
loose their petulant
wit on their deities also.
Wsp 6.230 5 Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap;...
CbW 6.275 19 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what
was his errand in
the city.
Ill 6.314 17 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth
with the
confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits
in the
shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only
three
flavors, or two.
Civ 7.21 10 Where shall we begin or end the list of
those feats of liberty
and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
Civ 7.24 6 ...a severe morality gives that essential
charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and
wit, in her rough mate;...
Elo1 7.77 9 Face to face with a highwayman...can you
bring yourself off
safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
Elo1 7.94 2 The orator is thereby an orator, that he
keeps his feet ever on a
fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...no power of wit or
learning or
illustration will make any amends for want of this.
Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the
barroom wits and
bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more;...
DL 7.122 3 ...[the most polite and accurate men of
Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity
of judgment in [Lord
Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
WD 7.183 7 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the
moon that he used
to buckle his shoes;...
Boks 7.205 9 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon...with
such wit and
continuity of mind, that...his book is one of the conveniences of
civilization...
Clbs 7.231 10 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp
of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
Clbs 7.233 16 How delightful after these disturbers is
the radiant, playful
wit of--one whom I need not name...
Clbs 7.235 6 Yonder is a man who can answer the
questions which I
cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his
experiences and his wit.
Clbs 7.238 19 Omnis definitio periculosa est, and only
wit has the secret.
Clbs 7.243 7 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who
first...broke
through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and
learning as well as men of rank...
Suc 7.297 6 ...our difference of wit appears to be only
a difference of
impressionability...
Suc 7.305 26 Character and wit have their own
magnetism.
OA 7.322 15 We still feel the force...of Archimedes,
holding Syracuse
against the Romans by his wit...
OA 7.336 5 I have heard that whenever the name of man
is spoken, the
doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution.
The
mode of it baffles our wit...
PI 8.36 2 The writer in the parlor has more presence of
mind, more wit and
fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at
table...than in the
politics of Germany or Rome.
PI 8.69 12 The egotism, the wit, is [in Faust]
calculated.
PI 8.70 2 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image
more or less that
imports, but...that we should lose our wit, but gain our reason.
SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he
might find the best in
the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character,
wise
counsel and affection, as easily as the wit with which it was adorned.
SA 8.93 17 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in
his description of the French woman:... She will draw wit out of a
fool.
SA 8.97 10 ...there are...swainish, morose people...and
though their odd wit
may have some salt for you, your friends would not relish it.
SA 8.97 21 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong
understanding, and the
higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral
rectitude
which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and
invention
are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with
his
mind;...
SA 8.98 3 True wit never made us laugh.
Elo2 8.126 25 ...we have all of us known men who
lose...their wit...at any
sudden call.
Res 8.138 8 A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning and
wit, teaching
pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being
odious.
Res 8.144 25 Nature herself gives the hint and the
example, if we have wit
to take it.
Res 8.147 27 ...we have noted examples among our
orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a
malignant mob...by a wit which
disconcerted and at last delighted the ring-leaders.
Comc 8.162 13 So painfully susceptible are some men to
these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the
room where they are, it
seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the
face
and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
Comc 8.162 19 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have
seen such a
person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a
willing
martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
Comc 8.162 26 The peace of society and the decorum of
tables seem to
require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic
bolt-upright
man...
Comc 8.163 6 Wit makes its own welcome...
Comc 8.163 9 No dignity...can make any stand against
good wit.
QO 8.193 25 ...a quick wit can at any time reinforce [a
word]...
QO 8.197 4 You have had the like experience in
conversation: the wit was
in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
PC 8.217 27 If [a man] has wit, he tempers the
despotism by epigrams...
PC 8.218 14 Wit has a great charter.
PC 8.218 19 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von
Arnim, or whatever
wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
PC 8.224 16 The good wit finds the law from a single
observation...
PC 8.229 27 ...when the wit is surrendered to
intellectual truth, that is
genius.
PPo 8.250 6 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to
his immense hilarity
and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis
on
these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the
natural topics and language of his wit and perception.
PPo 8.250 7 ...it is the play of wit and the joy of
song that [Hafiz] loves;...
Insp 8.268 6 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening
behind me for my
wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than
forward
it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/
Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God
hath
writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Grts 8.308 4 ...to each his own method, style, wit,
eloquence.
Grts 8.320 2 Wit is a magnet to find wit...
Imtl 8.325 15 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like
elastic gas, under these
mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
PerF 10.72 24 The husbandry learned in the economy of
heat or light or
steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
Edc1 10.141 11 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school
which...requires good
will, beauty, wit and select information;...
Edc1 10.157 17 I assume that you [teachers] will keep
the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and
of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit...
Supl 10.171 2 Men of the world value truth...not by its
sacredness, but for
its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right
to
expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the
form.
Supl 10.171 26 If man loves the conditioned, he also
loves the
unconditioned. We don't wish...to check the invention of wit or the
sally of
humor.
SovE 10.188 1 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage
kills worms; but
there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar, of eye so
keen
that it can report of a realm in which all the wit and learning of the
Frenchman is no more than the cunning of a fox.
SovE 10.204 22 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism,
in
which wit takes the place of faith in the leading spirits...
MoL 10.250 26 ...what does the scholar represent? The
organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity,
guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his
economies heroic;...a stoic...not
flogging his youthful wit with tobacco and wine;...
MoL 10.257 20 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a
Gordian knot in
twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border
statesmen
could not untie.
Schr 10.287 16 [The scholar] is still to decline how
many glittering
opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this
penury and
absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions
of wit.
Plu 10.321 21 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch]
many sharp
perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
LLNE 10.333 9 [Everett] abounded in sentences, in wit,
in satire...
LLNE 10.333 12 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of
defying experiment
of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or
Rabbinical words;...
MMEm 10.403 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so
fertile, and only
used to strike, that she never used it for display...
MMEm 10.405 24 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young
person who
interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or
her at
once...by anecdotes, by wit, by rebuke...
MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody
Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with
eminent names.
War 11.165 6 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance,
a perception in the
wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will
build
ships;...
TPar 11.286 11 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of
duty, or accepted
nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition
of
knowledge, a rapid wit...
TPar 11.293 3 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in
early glory to his
grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit,
honest
valor and independence are honored.
EdAd 11.386 4 It is a poor consideration that the
country wit is
precocious...
Wom 11.417 1 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its
inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this
subject;...
Wom 11.419 22 It is very cheap wit that finds it so
droll that a woman
should vote.
Scot 11.466 3 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted
in the sense and
virtue and wit of the common people.
Scot 11.467 12 What an ornament and safeguard is humor!
Far better than
wit for a poet and writer.
FRO1 11.476 7 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language
falters under it,/ It
leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can
find/ The
measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
CPL 11.502 20 ...every one of these [words] is the
contribution of the wit
of one and another sagacious man...
CPL 11.507 4 You meet with...a good thinker or good
wit,-but you do not
know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
FRep 11.514 19 The law of water and all fluids is true
of wit.
PLT 12.7 16 Bring the best wits together, and they are
so impatient of each
other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit...that you shall
have
no academy.
PLT 12.7 20 There is really a grievous amount of
unavailableness about
men of wit.
PLT 12.34 1 Instinct is our name for the potential wit.
PLT 12.34 3 Each man has a feeling that what is done
anywhere is done by
the same wit as his.
PLT 12.34 5 Each man has a feeling that what is done
anywhere is done by
the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to
see
that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done,
and
better than he could do it.
PLT 12.37 18 ...Perception is the armed eye. A
civilization has tamed and
ripened this savage wit...
PLT 12.59 19 ...wit sees the short way...
CInt 12.121 26 ...in the class called intellectual the
men are no better than
the uninstructed. They use their wit and learning in the service of the
Devil.
CInt 12.122 14 Instinct is the name for the potential
wit...
CInt 12.122 16 Instinct is the name for...that feeling
which each has that
what is done by any man or agent is done by the same wit as his.
CInt 12.122 18 [A man] looks at all men as his
representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done...
CL 12.161 17 How startling are the hints of wit we
detect in the horse and
dog...
CW 12.169 7 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor
wit, nor
eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any woman that is now alive,-/
Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the
happy
past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist
roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
CW 12.176 13 ...if one is so happy as to find the
company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme
or a garland, for...parliaments
of wit and love.
Bost 12.208 23 The climate [of Boston] is electric,
good for wit and good
for character.
Milt1 12.258 21 [Milton's] house was resorted to by men
of wit...
MLit 12.332 26 ...they have served [humanity] better,
who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science,
and of
power at his command.
WSL 12.339 11 ...a man may love a paradox without
either losing his wit
or his honesty.
WSL 12.341 8 In these busy days...a faithful scholar,
receiving from past
ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a
friend and
consoler of mankind.
EurB 12.370 3 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of
this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and
conservatories...
EurB 12.372 16 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by
its wit and
ingenuity, is beautiful...
PPr 12.384 19 ...a grain of wit is more penetrating
than the lightning of the
night-storm...
PPr 12.385 4 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present]
has eluded all official
zeal;...
PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the
attempt to write a book
of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local
emphasis and
love of effect...should appear...
PPr 12.386 25 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle
the calm daylight...
PPr 12.391 6 This grandiose character pervades
[Carlyle's] wit and his
imagination.
Let 12.402 19 In all the cases we have ever seen where
people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not
wit
enough.
Let 12.402 21 In all the cases we have ever seen where
people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not
wit
enough.
Wit, n. (1)
Wth 6.84 6 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All
is waste and
worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and
chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
wit, v. (1)
Comp 2.120 24 There is a deeper fact in the soul than
compensation, to wit, its own nature.
Witan, n. (1)
HDC 11.30 3 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon
king, is the sparrow
that enters at a window...
witch, n. (1)
LLNE 10.346 13 These [19th Century] reformers were a new
class. Instead
of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on...burning the witch...these
were
gentle souls...
Witch of Fife, [James Hogg (1)
QO 8.197 20 ...James Hogg (except in his poems Kilmeny
and The Witch
of Fife) is but a third-rate author...
witchcraft, n. (7)
Hist 2.37 17 Does not...the ear of Handel predict the
witchcraft of harmonic
sound?
Lov1 2.174 22 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in
their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein
affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental
and trivial
circumstances.
DL 7.105 11 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful
curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and
dimples and broken words--the little
talker grows to a boy.
Dem1 10.3 8 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth
the empire of our
lives.
Plu 10.300 27 [Plutarch] believes in witchcraft and the
evil eye...
Bost 12.192 25 ...in that time [of the settlement of
Massachusetts] terrors of
witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror
still clouded
the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
Bost 12.208 3 I know that this history [of
Massachusetts] contains many
black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of
women
for witchcraft.
witches, n. (2)
Hist 2.10 25 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before
a...Salem hanging of
witches;...
HDC 11.84 3 I find [in Concord annals]...no hanging of
witches...
witch-grass, n. (1)
CW 12.172 7 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...and...other men not known widely but known at home,
farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of
apple-trees or miles
of corn and rye to thrive.
witch-hazel, n. (1)
CL 12.152 8 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour
arrived...
withal, adv. (4)
Int 2.333 4 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good
[as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics
withal.
CPL 11.505 13 A man, that strives to make himself a
different thing from
other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all
fortunes he
hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
ACri 12.299 11 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] withal a book that is
a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the men and nations and manners
of
modern times.
AgMs 12.358 10 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always
impresses me with
respect, he is...so honest withal that he always needs to be watched
lest he
should cheat himself.
withdraw, v. (13)
AmS 1.91 17 ...when the sun is hid and the stars
withdraw their shining, -
we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where
the dawn
is.
DSA 1.143 4 It is already beginning to indicate
character and religion to
withdraw from the religious meetings.
Tran 1.340 27 ...many intelligent and religious persons
withdraw
themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and
the
caucus...
Tran 1.347 23 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and
fastidious manners
not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of
the
world;...
YA 1.366 11 The habit of living in the presence of
these invitations of
natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally
given a
strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to
withdraw
from cities and cultivate the soil.
Int 2.331 14 I would put myself in the attitude to look
in the eye an abstract
truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that.
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...
ShP 4.210 21 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of
that weight as to
withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
Insp 8.274 10 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off
electricity from
Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire
men...withdraw
them from the life of trifles and gain and comfort...
MMEm 10.427 17 ...if it were in the nature of things
possible He could
withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith
that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
SlHr 10.438 4 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to
private lodgings [in Charleston]...
EWI 11.147 5 I am sure that the good and wise elders,
the ardent and
generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to
withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of
the
question [of emancipation].
Mem 12.104 4 In low or bad company you...withdraw
yourelf entirely from
all the doleful circumstance, recall and surround yourself with the
best
associates and fairest hours of your life...
withdrawal, n. (4)
YA 1.389 17 The more need of a withdrawal from the
crowd...by the brave.
OS 2.295 14 The reliance on authority measures...the
withdrawal of the
soul.
NER 3.255 3 There was in all the practical activities
of New England for
the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender
consciences
from the social organizations.
SlHr 10.448 9 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's]
quiet but firm
withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without
manifest detriment to the interests involved...
withdrawing, n. (1)
Nat 1.50 9 The best moments of life are...the
reverential withdrawing of
nature before its God.
withdrawing, v. (7)
DSA 1.141 20 ...historical Christianity destroys the
power of preaching, by
withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...
OS 2.294 24 [Man] must greatly listen to himself,
withdrawing himself
from all the accents of other men's devotion.
Pt1 3.29 8 We fill the hands and nurseries of our
children with all manner
of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face
and
sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
OA 7.331 1 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central
figure for wisdom
and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to
astronomy
and epistolary correspondence.
Chr2 10.119 2 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than
the mother's
withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across
the
nursery-floor...
Plu 10.307 19 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who
does not hesitate to
say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by
sense
withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which
appears.
PLT 12.15 20 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an
ethereal sea...carrying
its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this
sea every
human house has a water front. But this force...visiting whom it will
and
withdrawing from whom it will...is no fee or property of man or angel.
withdrawn, v. (10)
Nat 1.46 21 ...when [our friend] has...become an object
of thought, and...is
converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom...he is commonly
withdrawn from our sight in a short time.
SR 2.54 14 ...under all these screens I have difficulty
to detect the precise
man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper
life.
Int 2.344 3 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their
blessing be won, and
after a short season the dismay will be overpast, the excess of
influence
withdrawn...
NR 3.228 25 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly
select a particle, and
say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of
thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our
filing
in a heap with the rest...
NR 3.244 3 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the
nourishment to be
drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his
observation...
SA 8.104 11 Amidst the calamities which war has brought
on our country
this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes are withdrawn from
England, withdrawn from France, and look homeward.
Dem1 10.16 5 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast
approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and
leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
Aris 10.60 26 The Golden Table never lacks members; all
its seats are kept
full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully
withdrawn into deep niches...
Chr2 10.117 5 ...the inspirations are never withdrawn.
MLit 12.312 27 ...[the poet] now revolves...what are
the birds to me? and
what is Hardiknute to me? and what am I? And this is called
subjectiveness, as the eye is withdrawn from the object and fixed on
the subject or mind.
withdraws, v. (5)
Nat 1.69 11 The stars have us to bed:/ Night draws the
curtain; which the
sun withdraws./
Tran 1.357 6 [The strong spirits'] thought and
emotion...quite withdraws
them from all notice of these carping critics;...
Exp 3.47 4 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that
other withdraws
himself in the same way, and quotes me.
SwM 4.113 4 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself
upward from visible
phenomena, or, in other words, withdraws herself inward, she instantly
as it
were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
Ctr 6.157 6 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his
sacred friends], the
more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their
very
presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from
the one centre of all existence.
withdrew, v. (5)
SwM 4.100 5 [Swedenborg]...withdrew from his practical
labors...
ET12 5.203 4 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for
three thousand, and
wrote four thousand pounds.
SlHr 10.437 18 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and
the gods went
against him, he withdrew...
SlHr 10.439 4 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew...
MAng1 12.225 6 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately
from the city [Florence] to Ferrara...
withe-bush, n. (1)
CL 12.149 17 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that
we know not! How
an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed, or withe-bush...for
strings;...
wither, v. (2)
Bty 6.283 17 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can
wither...
QO 8.189 1 In every kind of parasite...the
self-supplying organs wither and
dwindle...
withered, adj. (5)
Nat 1.18 6 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with
frost, contribute
something to the mute music.
LT 1.263 11 There is no interest or institution so poor
and withered, but if a
new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and
replace it.
SwM 4.122 6 To the withered traditional
church...[Swedenborg] let in
nature again...
PLT 12.52 7 I am familiar with cases...wherein the
vital force being
insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be
spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine. 'T is like a withered
hand or leg on a
Hercules.
PPr 12.386 17 One can hardly credit, whilst under the
spell of this
magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look,
to
foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old
withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
withered, v. (1)
MLit 12.335 11 Withered though he stand, and trifler
though he be, the
august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.
withering, adj. (1)
Prch 10.221 1 ...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. I say
the
effect is withering;...
withers, v. (1)
Lov1 2.183 14 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into
the education of
young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature...
withes, n. (1)
Hist 2.20 13 The Gothic church plainly originated in a
rude adaptation of
the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade;
as the
bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied
them.
withheld, v. (2)
ET7 5.117 4 Nature has endowed some animals with
cunning, as a
compensation for strength withheld;...
EdAd 11.382 23 ...[the elements] shove us from them,
yield to us/ Only
what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and
song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of
world beloved
and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
withhold, v. (6)
SR 2.52 20 ...though I confess with shame I sometimes
succumb and give
the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the
manhood
to withhold.
SL 2.159 27 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold
the avowal of a just and
brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
Clbs 7.231 11 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp
of memory, luck, splendor and speed;...
EzRy 10.385 8 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well
to get me a
shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
Do I
not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
MMEm 10.397 6 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day
goes drudging
through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and
can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his
conquering aid./
EWI 11.100 24 When we consider what remains to be done
for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of
humanity make us tender of
such as are not yet persuaded. ... Let us withhold every
reproachful...remark.
withholden, adj. (1)
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.
withholden, v. (4)
LT 1.286 26 We have come to that which is the spring of
all power...and
who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its
informations
are given or witholden?
Comp 2.119 10 The longer the payment is withholden, the
better for you;...
GoW 4.285 2 From [Goethe] nothing was hid, nothing
withholden.
DL 7.115 10 If [man]...is mean-spirited and odious, it
is because there is so
much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
withholding, v. (1)
CbW 6.263 21 In dealing with the drunken, we do not
affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness,
giving them of course every
aid,--but withholding ourselves.
withholds, v. (2)
NER 3.277 7 The selfish man suffers more from his
selfishness than he
from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
ET6 5.106 2 [The Englishman] withholds his name.
withstand, v. (5)
ET11 5.181 15 In evidence of the wealth amassed by
ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the
city [London], a few
noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
CbW 6.270 1 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one
perverse person
irritates the best; since we must withstand absurdity.
DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can
withstand...
EWI 11.119 16 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to
oppress, was
greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to
withstand.
ACiv 11.299 18 Is [man] not to make his knowledge
practical? to stand and
to withstand?
withstands, v. (1)
CL 12.162 16 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true
naturalist] in
crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...
withstood, v. (3)
Chr1 3.95 20 The will of the pure runs down from them
into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower
vessel. This natural force is
no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
PC 8.207 7 The heart still beats with the public pulse
of joy that the country
has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
LVB 11.96 4 ...God is in the [moral] sentiment, and it
cannot be withstood.
witness, n. (21)
AmS 1.91 7 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of
genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me
witness.
DSA 1.123 17 ...the very roots of the grass underground
there do seem to
stir and move to bear you witness.
MN 1.197 15 [Nature] has this advantage as a witness,
it cannot be
debauched.
Comp 2.99 23 Has [the man of genius] light? he must
bear witness to the
light...
Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears
extorted, hoarse, and half
witness.
Pt1 3.32 23 All the value which attaches to...Oken...is
the certificate we
have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard
true witness bare;/...
Bhr 6.171 10 Every day bears witness to [manners']
gentle rule.
Bhr 6.195 16 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and
gravity, defended
himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus
Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There
is no
witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
DL 7.117 13 ...a house should bear witness in all its
economy that human
culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
Suc 7.306 19 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil,
wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights
in, God delights in too./
Chr2 10.113 4 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very
heedless in its
richness of any past teacher or witness...
MMEm 10.404 27 ...The chief witness which I have had of
a Godlike
principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in
others'
superiority.
HDC 11.67 13 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used
the word Mediator in
some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was
soon
uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning
thereupon. The Council...bore witness to his purity and fidelity in his
office.
JBB 11.271 8 [The judges] assume that the United States
can protect its
witness or its prisoner.
JBB 11.272 21 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as
to believe that
when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for
a
witness, it wants him for a witness?
JBB 11.272 22 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as
to believe that
when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for
a
witness, it wants him for a witness?
FRO2 11.486 5 ...the Author of Nature has not left
himself without a
witness in any sane mind...
CPL 11.505 16 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a
Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very
modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other
books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took
up a sound cross in not reading them.
ACri 12.290 19 A good writer must convey the feeling of
a flamboyant
witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
Pray 12.355 28 Let these few scattered leaves...stand
as an example of
innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has
reported...
witness, v. (18)
YA 1.380 10 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people
indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and
executioner. Witness the new movements in the civilized world...
YA 1.380 17 Witness too the spectacle of three
Communities which have
within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness
the old age and
disappearance of particular arts.
Pt1 3.16 18 Witness the cider-barrel...and all the
cognizances of party.
NR 3.226 8 That happens in the world, which we often
witness in a public
debate.
UGM 4.21 2 The veneration of mankind selects these
[great men] for the
highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials
which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
SwM 4.131 19 [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...
ET17 5.297 23 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness
the revolution
he had wrought...
Wsp 6.208 24 In creeds never was such levity; witness
the heathenisms in
Christianity...
Civ 7.17 9 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful
traveller gives, when on
the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin
stream
Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
DL 7.127 1 ...let the hearts [our friends] have
agitated witness what power
has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and
repass us!
QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his presence
a passionate wish to
witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing
so
dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of
the Homeric
ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar
compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Edc1 10.149 12 See how far a young doctor will ride or
walk to witness a
new surgical operation.
Plu 10.303 13 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence
which...allows us to witness the upturning of the alphabets of old
races...
CPL 11.495 18 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who...make costly
gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to
witness
and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library].
CL 12.161 9 The college is not so wise as the
mechanic's shop, nor the
quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the
white
man about the Indian...
MLit 12.324 23 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness
his
explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as
growing out of the Italian climate;...
witnessed, v. (8)
Pt1 3.36 24 ...if any poet has witnessed the
transformation he doubtless
found it in harmony with various experiences.
NER 3.261 13 The criticism and attack on institutions,
which we have
witnessed, has made one thing plain...
PNR 4.86 20 [Plato]...descended into detail with a
courage like that he
witnessed in nature.
LVB 11.90 10 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the
painful labors of
these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of
eternal inferiority...
JBB 11.268 4 ...our Captain John Brown...with his
father was present and
witnessed the surrender of General Hull.
EdAd 11.391 6 ...the current year has witnessed the
appearance, in their
first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.
PLT 12.59 24 The same course continues itself in the
mind which we have
witnessed in Nature...
Let 12.399 12 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is
rapidly increasing by
the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors
to secure
to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to
this
calamity, as...witnessed by ourselves.
witnesses, n. (4)
LT 1.265 13 Could we indicate the indicators...so that
all witnesses should
recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment
across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report
to
the next ages the color and quality of ours.
Wsp 6.226 11 You want but one verdict; if you have your
own you are
secure of the rest. And yet,if witnesses are wanted, witnesses are
near.
Elo1 7.85 24 ...in the examination of witnesses there
usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the
business...
MAng1 12.242 19 Amidst all these witnesses to
[Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his
devotion, are we not
authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the
highest
beauty, that is, goodness;...
witnesses, v. (2)
SS 7.12 21 The recluse witnesses what others perform by
their aid, with a
kind of fear.
Mem 12.97 26 A knife with a good spring, a
forceps...the teeth or jaws of
which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when
badly
put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick
and
strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
witnessing, v. (5)
LT 1.281 15 The sad Pestalozzi ...after witnessing [the
French Revolution'
s] sequel, recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward
circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental
and
moral improvement.
UGM 4.16 24 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see
the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a
higher
benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
Ctr 6.147 22 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect
of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
Wsp 6.213 4 You say there is no religion now. 'T is
like saying in rainy
weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of
his
superlative effects.
SMC 11.356 11 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by
the Missouri
riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with rage, that
they
became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined
avengers.
wits, n. (28)
Comp 2.118 2 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented,
defeated...he has
been put on his wits, on his manhood;...
Pt1 3.38 11 [The English poets] are wits more than
poets...
ET6 5.114 17 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded
table-talk of their
wits, are as good as the best of the French.
ET8 5.138 26 To understand the power of performance
that is in their finest
wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
ET14 5.240 25 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part
of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits
drawing a bucket
now and then for their own use...
ET14 5.243 4 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period
almost short enough to
justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within
his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help
study.
CbW 6.248 12 The finest wits have their sediment.
CbW 6.252 23 ...this beast-force...has provoked in
every age the satire of
wits...
Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the
barroom wits and
bullies;...
Boks 7.201 5 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian
manners] has merits of
every kind,--being...a picture of a feast of wits...
Clbs 7.238 16 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir]
replies...with Odin
contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the
gods
and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the
million
mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and
tete-a-tetes...the
wits in the hotel.
Clbs 7.248 7 No doubt the suppers of wits and
philosophers acquire much
lustre by time and renown.
SA 8.87 13 I know that there go two to this game [of
laughter], and, in the
presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush
out
in some disorder.
SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to
better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal
laws], are made incapable of
conceit, which destroys almost all the fine wits.
QO 8.197 26 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that
Shakspeare's plays were
written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the
superior
meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
QO 8.199 15 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a
circle of intelligences
that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits...
Insp 8.279 8 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/
Both serve to make
our poverty our pride./
Schr 10.266 20 ...the wits of Queen Anne's...have not
much helped us.
EPro 11.316 20 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;-the
bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and
overawed;...
Shak1 11.452 18 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal
proportions, dwarfs
the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as the wits of Anne...
PLT 12.7 14 Bring the best wits together, and they are
so impatient of each
other...that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers,
deal with their
thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
Mem 12.95 21 ...[the power of memory] is found in all
good wits.
Bost 12.182 11 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred
thousands/ Throb in
each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her
brain./
Bost 12.194 10 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of
Saint Augustine...of
Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with
the
cold complexion of our recent wits?
Bost 12.209 1 What public souls have lived here [in
Boston]...what
mathematicians, what lawyers, what wits;...
ACri 12.299 19 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
ACri 12.304 24 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek
vase, I incline to
accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits
than any other people.
wit's, n. (1)
CbW 6.243 26 Of all wit's uses, the main one/ Is to live
well with who has
none./
Witt, John de, n. (1)
Tran 1.337 5 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person
who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...
wittiest, adj. (2)
Boks 7.190 14 A company of the wisest and wittiest men
that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the
smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and
wisdom.
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a
History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was
written;...
wittily, adv. (4)
Exp 3.58 24 A political orator wittily compared our
party promises to
western roads...
PPh 4.39 21 ...every brisk young man who says in
succession fine things to
each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato, translating into
the
vernacular, wittily, his good things.
ET16 5.288 5 As I had thus taken in the conversation
the saint's part, when
dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was
altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host
[Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was
the
wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went
last.
Ill 6.313 7 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by
D'Alembert, qu'un
etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir
les
choses comme elles sont.
witty, adj. (9)
LT 1.262 6 They indicate,-these witty...figures of the
only race in which
there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
Exp 3.51 15 I knew a witty physician who found the
creed in the biliary
duct...
ET14 5.232 7 [The English]...never are surprised into a
covert or witty
word...
Suc 7.310 26 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes
[the most sanguine'
s] little hope less with satire and skepticism...
QO 8.183 18 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that
Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson;...
QO 8.196 5 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant
writers, and not the less of
witty talkers, the device of ascribing their own sentence to an
imaginary
person...
Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he
is...elegant, witty...society has
need of all these.
SovE 10.207 23 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of
gravitation and of
repulsion are deaf to French talkers, be they never so witty.
LLNE 10.325 6 I recall the remark of a witty physician
who remembered
the hardships of his own youth;...
wives, n. (15)
MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of
property] the deeper
by forming connections, by wives and children...
Exp 3.85 22 We dress our garden...discuss the household
with our wives, and these things make no impression...
Mrs1 3.119 5 ...[the Feejee islanders] are said to eat
their own wives and
children.
SwM 4.127 26 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in
heaven were
beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful...
Elo2 8.122 10 What must have been the discourse of St.
Bernard, when... wives [hid] their husbands...lest they should be led
by his eloquence to join
the monastery.
Comc 8.172 22 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I
have looked in the
mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although
I...have
also much wealth, and many wives, yet still I am so ugly; therefore
have I
wept.
PC 8.228 2 If [men in Kansas and California] are made
as [the wise man] is, if they...have wives and children, he knows that
their joy or resentment
rises to the same point as his own.
Aris 10.50 19 It is curious how negligent the public is
of the essential
qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a
Republican, a
Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking
for
an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by
acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great
satisfaction
what a good thing they have done.
EzRy 10.392 23 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear
of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their
wives in this cold weather.
HDC 11.34 8 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of
abode, they burrow
themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and
casting
the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the
highest
side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for
themselves, their wives and little ones...
AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and
children
answered by the howl of the butchers.
JBB 11.269 11 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I
had interfered in
behalf of...the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their
friends, parents, wives or children, it would all have been right.
SMC 11.360 13 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think
carefully of every
last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
II 12.84 21 Men generally attempt, early in life, to
make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is
going forward in their
private theatre;...
MLit 12.325 3 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every
institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his
explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in
the
habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their
husbands on
the sea;...
wizard, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.424 1 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on
thy hoary
throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting
institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms
be lost in the
Genius of Eternity?
Woburn, Massachusetts, n. (1)
HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an
affecting
narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
Woburn Square, London, Eng (1)
ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or
included...the land
occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
Woden, n. (1)
SR 2.72 18 ...let us enter into the state of war and
wake Thor and Woden...
woe, n. (8)
NMW 4.234 5 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected
from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his
successes; but he
must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not
cruel,--but
woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
F 6.29 12 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe
unto him who suffers
himself to be betrayed by Fate!
Bty 6.279 17 In dens of passion, and pits of woe,
[Seyd] saw strong Eros
struggling through/...
DL 7.121 15 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the
theatre and
premature freedom and dissipation, which others possess. Woe to them if
their wishes were crowned!
PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this
high gift, even when
the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the
terra
cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
PPo 8.245 27 'T is writ on Paradise's gate,/ Woe to the
dupe that yields to
Fate!/
SovE 10.190 22 Shall I say then it were truer to see
Necessity...covered
with ensigns of woe...
PLT 12.44 23 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from
the thing we
contemplate.
woes, n. (1)
PPr 12.379 2 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and
Present], his Iliad of
English woes...
woke, v. (3)
NR 3.248 16 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I
revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its
ground and died hard;...
MoS 4.184 14 Each man woke in the morning with an
appetite that could
eat the solar system like a cake;...
GoW 4.269 12 There have been times when [the writer]
was a sacred
person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls. Every
word was true, and woke the nations to new life.
wol, v. (3)
Aris 10.29 12 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet
wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it
behold;/...
Aris 10.29 14 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet
wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it
behold;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til
that it die./
Aris 10.29 22 ...he that wol have prize of his
genterie,/ For he was boren of
a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill
hinselven
do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He
n' is
not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
wold, v. (1)
Imtl 8.326 23 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering
with gold;/ The Earth
goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth
castles
and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
Wolf, Fenris, n. (1)
F 6.20 19 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to
bind the Fenris
Wolf...
wolf, n. (14)
ET4 5.44 12 The individuals at the extremes of
divergence in one race of
men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
ET4 5.61 8 ...decent and dignified men now existing
boast their descent
from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster
conviction
of their own merits, by assuming for their types the...leopard, wolf
and
snake...
ET7 5.117 11 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and
brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not
found, is
instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
SS 7.1 18 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/ And
near the wolf and
panther slept./
Civ 7.21 15 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the
horse leaves.
Cour 7.276 12 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not
inharmonious in Nature...
PI 8.12 24 ...my young scholar does not wish to know
what the leopard, the
wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
PI 8.14 15 To the Parliament debating how to tax
America, Burke
exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
PI 8.57 14 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to
the Indian, or the
hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as
the cry
of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base and
forlorn a feeling
as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and
the
sentiment. In this impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a
wolf.
PerF 10.73 15 ...in man that bias or direction of his
constitution is often as
tyrannical as gravity. We call it temperament, and it seems to be the
remains of wolf, ape, and rattlesnake in him.
Edc1 10.127 8 Certain nations...have made such progress
as to compare
with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
HDC 11.43 20 What could the body of freemen, meeting
four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at
Musketaquid? The wolf
was to be killed; the Indian to be watched and resisted;...
Bost 12.202 4 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf
and famine than that anybody should give
himself airs here in the swamp.
Wolf [Wolff], Friedrich Au (2)
LE 1.170 14 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman
and Greek
history have been written anew.
Boks 7.202 7 The secret of the recent histories in
German and in English is
the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the
sincere
Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from
Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
Wolff, Christian von, n. (1)
SwM 4.105 3 ...the largest application of principles,
had been exhibited by
Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
Wolff [Wolf], Friedrich Au (1)
LLNE 10.332 14 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily
communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less
attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical
discourses in the
style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination...
Wolff's [Wolf's], Friedrich (1)
LLNE 10.330 20 [Everett] made us for the first time
acquainted with Wolff'
s theory of the Homeric writings...
wolfish, adj. (1)
FSLN 11.233 16 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law
was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the
judges were chosen
from the wolves, and give to all the law a wolfish interpretation?
Wolfius [Christian von Wolf (1)
SwM 4.137 14 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish
priest, who, if a
hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and
the
cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less
with
the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
Wolf's, Mr., n. (1)
FSLC 11.183 9 However close Mr. Wolf's nails have been
pared, however
neatly he has been shaved, and tailored...he cannot be relied on at a
pinch...
Wolsey's [Shakespeare, Henr (1)
ShP 4.195 24 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and
know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene
with
Cromwell...
Wolverine, n. (1)
Pow 6.63 3 ...let these rough riders--legislators in
shirt-sleeves, Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger...drive as they may,
and the disposition of
territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and
reason, at
last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
wolves, n. (9)
YA 1.373 23 Our condition is like that of the poor
wolves...
ET11 5.181 6 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The
wolves are here in
such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the
streets;...
F 6.31 12 What good, honest, generous men at home, will
be wolves and
foxes on 'Change!
Pow 6.66 20 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that
a little wickedness is
good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order
cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears,
catamounts or wolves...
HDC 11.35 12 The great cost of cattle...the loss of
[the pilgrims'] sheep
and swine by wolves;...are the other disasters enumerated by the
historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.65 26 The country [near Concord] was not yet so
thickly settled
but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
FSLN 11.233 15 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law
was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the
judges were chosen
from the wolves...
Bost 12.191 23 ...[the planters of Massachusetts]
exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they
believed there were lions;...
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