Win to Wise

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

win, v. (23)

    Exp 3.85 15 Patience and patience, we shall win at the last.
    Mrs1 3.144 19 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    MoS 4.161 12 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...every one skilful to play and win,--[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    MoS 4.185 15 Although knaves win in every political struggle...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ET4 5.54 2 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins. Put the best sailing-master into either boat, and he will win.
    Bhr 6.167 17 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    DL 7.122 16 I honor that man whose ambition it is, not to win laurels in the state or the army...but to be a master of living well...
    Suc 7.288 17 Men see the reward which the inventor enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
    Dem1 10.20 15 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
    Aris 10.54 11 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations.
    Carl 10.495 3 Nor can that decorum...in attaining which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.
    HDC 11.50 11 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God.
    FSLC 11.212 2 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.212 4 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLN 11.220 25 The low can best win the low...
    Koss 11.398 23 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something;...
    FRep 11.518 8 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.
    FRep 11.518 27 The low can best win the low...
    FRep 11.530 19 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
    II 12.75 4 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...
    CL 12.147 5 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites against the Pequots, and if the handsome savages win, we shall not be losers.
    Trag 12.415 4 Our human being is wonderfully plastic; if it cannot win this satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by running out there and winning that.

wince, v. (1)

    EWI 11.104 15 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.

winces, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 6 [The new race] have a neck of unspeakable tenderness; it winces at a hair.

Winchester Cathedral, Engla (2)

    ET16 5.289 19 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
    ET16 5.290 19 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.

Winchester, England, n. (3)

    ET16 5.288 9 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET16 5.289 4 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...
    ET16 5.290 7 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim (3)

    Bhr 6.181 25 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you how significant a feature is the nose;...
    Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Boks 7.202 3 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.

Wind, Invocation of the [Ta (1)

    PI 8.58 4 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...

wind, n. (112)

    Nat 1.13 10 The wind sows the seed;...
    Nat 1.13 11 ...the wind blows the vapor to the field;...
    Nat 1.17 10 ...I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
    Nat 1.25 18 Spirit primarily means wind;...
    Nat 1.72 18 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...wind...
    Nat 1.76 26 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up and the wind exhale.
    MN 1.196 8 ...behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...as if some strong wind took everything off its feet...
    MR 1.249 27 [The Americans] think you may talk the north wind down as easily as raise society;...
    MR 1.253 24 It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
    Con 1.311 14 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    Con 1.320 9 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim; to keep out wind and weather...
    Con 1.324 20 ...the north wind shall be purer...that I have lived.
    Tran 1.347 4 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and drink wind...
    SR 2.56 9 ...the...faces of the multitude...are put on and off as the wind blows...
    SR 2.71 1 The genesis and maturation of a planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Comp 2.116 12 The laws and substances of nature,--water, snow, wind, gravitation,--become penalties to the thief.
    Comp 2.122 25 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it away.
    SL 2.143 23 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind...
    OS 2.270 3 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    OS 2.274 5 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.
    Cir 2.313 10 Cleansed by the elemental light and wind...we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    Pt1 3.16 3 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain...
    Pt1 3.16 25 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting, blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle...
    Exp 3.49 12 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Nat2 3.172 18 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Pol1 3.208 18 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    NR 3.236 5 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as...a fleet of ripples which the wind drives over the surface of the water.
    NER 3.257 15 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    MoS 4.160 13 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it...under the wind, but out of the dirt.
    ET2 5.28 19 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    ET4 5.59 23 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET5 5.83 14 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear their freight ships.
    ET5 5.83 26 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    ET12 5.207 20 [English students] have bottom, endurance, wind.
    ET16 5.277 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
    ET16 5.277 20 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
    F 6.28 3 ...[the breath of will] is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
    F 6.33 11 Man moves in all modes...by wings of wind...
    Pow 6.59 23 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has the sun and wind...
    Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
    Wth 6.83 6 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
    Wth 6.87 17 Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out;...
    Wth 6.108 21 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Wth 6.123 7 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Ctr 6.154 13 To a man at work...the rain, the wind, he forgot them when he came in.
    Bty 6.284 5 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind;...
    SS 7.1 13 ...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil scale behind/...
    Civ 7.29 1 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Art2 7.41 25 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    Art2 7.42 17 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Farm 7.135 10 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain/...
    Farm 7.136 2 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/...
    Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind.
    Farm 7.139 5 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun...
    Farm 7.145 3 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    Farm 7.147 20 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun by growing in groves, and from the wind by the walls of the mountain.
    Farm 7.148 1 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year, in the destroying wind, his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.
    Farm 7.148 15 The wall that keeps off the strong wind keeps off the cold wind.
    WD 7.169 21 A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...
    Cour 7.254 27 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them as the wind does of clouds...
    PI 8.6 24 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.58 23 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    Elo2 8.121 14 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor; he also is a sharer of the higher wind that blows over his strings.
    Res 8.152 25 [The willows] bend all day to every wind;...
    Comc 8.169 13 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll.
    PC 8.211 27 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PPo 8.236 2 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    PPo 8.240 18 Solomon had three talismans...the third, the east wind, which was his horse.
    PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    PPo 8.252 26 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    PPo 8.256 4 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    PPo 8.257 5 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.
    PPo 8.258 8 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
    Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./
    Insp 8.288 4 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    Insp 8.288 22 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure. I forget rain, wind, cold and heat.
    Aris 10.46 12 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like the freaks of the wind...
    PerF 10.86 8 ...rain and snow, wind and tides, every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    Chr2 10.120 20 The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
    Edc1 10.129 18 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
    Schr 10.275 15 Man is a torch borne in the wind.
    LLNE 10.355 4 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...
    MMEm 10.420 26 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant, which no idler wind can so well dispense.
    LS 11.2 4 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    HDC 11.47 16 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    EWI 11.103 10 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow, no wind of good fame blew over him...
    EWI 11.147 2 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever.
    RBur 11.443 13 The wind whispers [Burn's songs]...
    PLT 12.26 27 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no genius. Ask of your flowers to open when you have let in on them a freezing wind.
    PLT 12.33 21 Right thought comes spontaneously, comes like the morning wind;...
    PLT 12.63 5 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
    Mem 12.95 5 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.
    CInt 12.130 20 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes easily that he does, as snow and vapor, heat, wind and light.
    CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
    CL 12.147 1 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
    CL 12.150 21 In March, the thaw, and the sounding of the south wind...
    CL 12.151 22 In August...when the leaves whisper to each other in the wind, we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CL 12.152 1 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...
    Milt1 12.254 7 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who, respect to personal relations, is to us as the wind...
    ACri 12.297 20 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow. He has gone nigher to the wind than any other craft.
    ACri 12.301 2 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:- Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./
    ACri 12.302 11 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...sour east wind and flowery southwest...
    MLit 12.316 13 The water we wash with never speaks of itself, nor does fire or wind or tree.
    MLit 12.320 23 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling. We saw stars shine...we heard the rustle of the wind in the grass...
    PPr 12.389 6 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...
    Trag 12.409 10 Hark! what sounds on the night wind...
    Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
    Trag 12.414 16 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.
    Trag 12.414 21 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

wind, v. (1)

    Civ 7.28 21 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...to grind, and wind, and pump, and saw...

wind-bags, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 27 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.

wind-cup, n. (1)

    Supl 10.162 2 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./

Windermere, Lake, England, (2)

    EurB 12.368 8 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...
    EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

wind-harps, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 18 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps...

winding, adj. (4)

    OS 2.294 5 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
    HDC 11.49 13 In every winding road...[the people of Concord] read their own power...
    SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
    Milt1 12.261 11 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...

winding, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.207 18 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery...

windlass, n. (1)

    Wth 6.86 24 Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.

windmill, n. (1)

    Bost 12.188 13 [Boston] is...not a windmill...grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...

windmills, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 13 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...windmills...

window, n. (26)

    DSA 1.137 26 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then out of the window behind him into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    Hist 2.20 20 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    SR 2.58 19 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    SR 2.67 5 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...
    SR 2.76 25 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself, tossing...customs out of the window, we pity him no more...
    Prd1 2.228 13 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Pt1 3.36 7 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness, and were compelled to shut the window that they might see.
    NR 3.244 9 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET4 5.56 1 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET10 5.165 12 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET11 5.192 18 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    Wth 6.121 26 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...shooting through this man's cellar and that man's attic window...
    Ill 6.319 13 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    Ill 6.319 16 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    OA 7.334 8 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all.
    PI 8.28 2 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
    SA 8.94 13 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    Insp 8.273 26 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window...
    Insp 8.285 14 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    Insp 8.287 16 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
    Imtl 8.326 4 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
    LLNE 10.367 4 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
    HDC 11.30 4 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    CInt 12.130 3 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    MAng1 12.243 11 There [in Florence], [Michelangelo's] picture hangs in every window;...

windows, n. (12)

    Nat 1.19 20 ...[the beauty of an October afternoon] is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.
    Lov1 2.175 13 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes a watcher of windows...
    Lov1 2.187 1 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...
    ET16 5.284 27 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]... yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    F 6.10 8 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes...
    Wth 6.122 17 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Bhr 6.179 23 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    PI 8.45 22 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows...
    EzRy 10.387 14 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    HDC 11.39 23 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    RBur 11.443 3 Open the windows behind you, and hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].
    CPL 11.501 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...

window-sills, n. (1)

    Art2 7.55 2 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills...

windrows, n. (1)

    ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.

winds, n. (37)

    Nat 1.13 22 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    Nat 1.20 13 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
    Nat 1.42 24 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds...
    Nat 1.69 4 For us, the winds do blow/...
    AmS 1.84 26 Ever the winds blow;...
    AmS 1.114 21 Young men...inflated by the mountain winds...turn drudges...
    LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors'] speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us; not in Time.
    Comp 2.116 26 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Fdsp 2.191 3 Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Chr1 3.114 18 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
    PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    ET2 5.26 20 At last...the storm came, the winds blew...
    Ctr 6.163 10 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...contending with winds and waves...to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    CbW 6.262 4 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Ill 6.321 17 We cannot write the order of the variable winds.
    SS 7.1 24 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...
    DL 7.108 21 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...short winds...
    Boks 7.195 19 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion...
    PI 8.9 23 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
    Insp 8.287 23 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    Aris 10.59 7 ...perplexity is [a grand interest's] noonday: minds that make their way without winds and against tides.
    PerF 10.71 1 The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a thousand times.
    PerF 10.71 18 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    PerF 10.72 8 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom...he sails the way these irresistible winds blow.
    Edc1 10.130 26 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?
    EWI 11.104 23 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world.
    TPar 11.292 10 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...
    TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
    EPro 11.322 4 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery] which the purest winds and strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge.
    RBur 11.438 6 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    RBur 11.443 3 The west winds are murmuring [the memory of Burns].
    PLT 12.52 13 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you. But Nature can; she whistles with all her winds, and does as she pleases.
    CL 12.141 10 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    CL 12.148 13 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts...
    Bost 12.185 16 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies;...
    MLit 12.315 12 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with the course of the rivers and of the winds...

winds, v. (2)

    Exp 3.53 4 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
    WD 7.168 17 How the day fits itself to the mind, winds itself round it like a fine drapery, clothing all its fancies!

Windsor Castle, England, n. (2)

    ET16 5.290 19 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
    PPr 12.391 11 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

Windsor, England, n. (1)

    ET6 5.112 13 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.

windy, adj. (2)

    F 6.24 8 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    ACri 12.302 14 [Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too windy and grassy...

wine, n. (98)

    Nat 1.33 21 ...Vinegar is the son of wine;...
    DSA 1.119 15 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    YA 1.387 11 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach...
    Comp 2.94 19 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Fdsp 2.195 13 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
    Fdsp 2.199 2 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams...
    Prd1 2.232 6 [The man of talent's] art never taught him...the love of wine...
    Hsm1 2.243 1 Ruby wine is drunk by knaves/...
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
    Hsm1 2.254 27 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    Cir 2.312 23 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto, filled with the new wine of his imagination, writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Pt1 3.27 20 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...
    Pt1 3.28 24 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    Pt1 3.29 1 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    Pt1 3.29 5 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
    Pt1 3.29 6 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
    Pt1 3.29 25 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...take wine or refuse it..in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.150 26 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    Mrs1 3.150 27 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume;...
    Gts 3.163 8 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Gts 3.163 9 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Nat2 3.174 13 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company...
    Nat2 3.190 9 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    MoS 4.153 13 [The men of the senses] believe that...a man will be eloquent, if you give him good wine.
    NMW 4.258 24 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...and our wine will burn our mouth.
    ET4 5.69 19 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
    ET6 5.114 4 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen remain over their wine an hour longer...
    ET6 5.114 15 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
    ET8 5.128 21 Meat and wine produce no effect on [the English].
    ET10 5.153 11 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses? How can a man be a gentleman without a pipe of wine?
    ET10 5.153 17 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
    ET13 5.218 17 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience, just fresh from the Times newspaper and their wine...
    ET13 5.230 7 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    ET14 5.247 22 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
    ET14 5.255 4 The fact is, say [the English] over their wine, all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; it won't do any longer.
    ET14 5.258 10 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET16 5.285 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Pow 6.60 22 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...by prayer or by wine.
    Wth 6.119 16 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
    Wth 6.119 19 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak, turns all the streamlets to one reservoir and decants wine;...
    Ctr 6.151 16 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue...
    Wsp 6.208 16 There is faith...in meat and wine...but not in divine causes.
    Wsp 6.223 10 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Wsp 6.223 12 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Bty 6.283 27 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers, pictures, music and wine.
    Ill 6.321 10 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
    DL 7.111 16 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine;...
    DL 7.128 23 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Boks 7.195 3 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine.
    Clbs 7.245 24 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    Clbs 7.248 20 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./
    PI 8.70 17 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
    Elo2 8.115 1 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...and be steeped and ennobled in the new wine of this eloquence!
    Res 8.150 12 In England men of letters drink wine;...
    PPo 8.240 5 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
    PPo 8.245 6 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PPo 8.246 13 I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    PPo 8.246 24 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    PPo 8.248 18 Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine.
    PPo 8.249 24 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.250 15 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the height of thought, as thus:-Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul' s independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
    PPo 8.256 4 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    Insp 8.276 10 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if tea, or wine, or sea-air...could...wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Insp 8.281 5 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Supl 10.162 2 For Art, for Music overthrilled,/ The wine-cup shakes, the wine is spilled./
    Supl 10.169 18 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    SovE 10.200 5 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
    Prch 10.233 23 ...[inspiration] will invent its own methods: the new wine will make the bottles new.
    MoL 10.250 27 ...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;...
    Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to...the Greek wine...
    LLNE 10.327 20 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
    LLNE 10.355 22 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.
    Thor 10.454 10 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
    Thor 10.455 10 [Thoreau] did not like the taste of wine...
    LS 11.3 11 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper]; whether mixed or unmixed wine should be served;...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    LS 11.5 11 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.9 8 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
    LS 11.12 7 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine were typical...
    LS 11.12 18 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread and drank wine as symbols.
    LS 11.19 9 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion...
    EWI 11.102 13 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers of corn and wine...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    FSLC 11.209 5 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... We will give up our coaches, and wine, and watches.
    RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...ale, the poor man's wine;...
    FRep 11.522 15 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine...
    FRep 11.524 1 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    PLT 12.26 21 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    II 12.69 13 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...or the feaster to his wine.
    II 12.69 20 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips?
    CL 12.145 17 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine.
    MAng1 12.228 8 A little bread and wine was all [Michelangelo's] nourishment;...
    Milt1 12.263 9 [Milton] tells us...that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    WSL 12.339 26 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands and the jewels of his ring. Afterward, he washes them in water, he washes them in wine; but you are never secure from his freaks.

wine-cup, n. (1)

    PPo 8.247 1 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./

wine-drinking, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.254 22 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking...

wine-fed, adj. (1)

    PI 8.1 11 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./

wine-glasses, n. (1)

    PI 8.42 9 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.

wine-merchant, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 13 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster...

wine-parties, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.144 22 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...

Wine-question, n. (1)

    LT 1.270 5 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics...of the Wine-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.

wines, n. (5)

    Con 1.317 13 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your pantry is full of meats and your cellar of wines...
    ET5 5.94 17 [England] is too far north for the culture of the vine, but the wines of all countries are in its docks.
    Res 8.150 13 In England men of letters drink wine;...in France, light wines;...
    Supl 10.169 23 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he sees...whether your head is addled by this mixture of wines.
    LLNE 10.341 1 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper, crowned by excellent wines;...

wine-shops, n. (1)

    PPo 8.246 9 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation...

wine-whey, n. (1)

    ET14 5.247 16 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...

wing, n. (5)

    Nat 1.40 11 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing...
    Nat2 3.194 6 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    Elo1 7.59 4 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Koss 11.396 8 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    Mem 12.95 8 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves,-flies on wing as fast as that mysterious whirlwind...

winged, adj. (9)

    Hist 2.32 25 What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?
    Comp 2.92 9 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/ Hast not thy share? On winged feet,/ Lo! it rushes thee to meet;/...
    Cir 2.315 5 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    Pt1 3.12 17 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven, whirls me into mists...
    Pt1 3.23 27 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged.
    PPh 4.58 17 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
    F 6.48 5 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will bud and shoot out winged feet...
    Ctr 6.146 11 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Supl 10.175 4 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw a winged dragon...

wings, n. (44)

    Nat 1.16 6 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the wings and forms of most birds...
    AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...
    MN 1.215 16 It is in a hope that [the soul] feels her wings.
    Hist 2.19 1 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supported on either side by wide-stretched symmetrical wings.
    Hist 2.20 5 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Hist 2.31 21 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
    Hist 2.36 16 ...the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air.
    Comp 2.91 1 The wings of Time are black and white/...
    Cir 2.313 2 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world...
    Art1 2.349 16 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    Pt1 3.23 18 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far...
    Pt1 3.23 22 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul.
    Pt1 3.24 3 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot, having received from the souls out of which they came no beautiful wings.
    ShP 4.215 14 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic. It is a caterpillar with wings...
    ET10 5.158 2 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
    ET10 5.168 19 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings.
    ET14 5.243 15 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels; the loss of wings;...
    ET18 5.305 20 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
    F 6.1 3 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
    F 6.15 11 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like...skates, which are wings on the ice but fetters on the ground.
    F 6.30 26 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
    F 6.33 11 Man moves in all modes...by wings of wind...
    F 6.35 18 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights are wings and means,- we are reconciled.
    F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...wings in air;...
    Wth 6.83 6 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/
    Ctr 6.155 27 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
    Bhr 6.174 11 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
    Bhr 6.177 26 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight, beside the advantage by their wings of a higher observatory.
    Bty 6.305 19 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Civ 7.25 19 In the snake, all the organs are sheathed; no hands, no feet, no fins, no wings.
    PI 8.13 3 When some familiar truth or fact appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.45 22 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in wings;...
    PI 8.72 18 ...Dante was free imagination,--all wings,--yet he wrote like Euclid.
    PC 8.228 20 The affections are the wings by which the intellect launches on the void...
    PC 8.229 24 Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas.
    PPo 8.255 22 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
    Imtl 8.329 12 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...for household use. It is the fear of the young bird to trust its wings.
    SovE 10.184 27 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...
    Plu 10.315 2 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped...
    EWI 11.143 20 [Nature] appoints...no fort or city for the bird but his wings;...
    Humb 11.457 18 The wonderful Humboldt, with his solid centre and expanded wings, marches like an army...
    FRep 11.530 24 The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of a peacock;...
    FRep 11.530 25 The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the thunderbolt when he is commanded.
    PLT 12.17 9 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence. It is too rare for the wings of words.

wink, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.139 13 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
    Wom 11.423 11 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to be understood only by wink and nudge;...

wink, v. (4)

    Bhr 6.178 16 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries...the eyes wink at each new name.
    WD 7.168 24 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of nuts and cakes...
    Plu 10.317 11 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at;...
    SMC 11.352 13 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...did not wink at it...

winked, v. (2)

    SMC 11.352 9 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up.
    SMC 11.352 11 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception...

Winkelmann, Johann Joachim, (1)

    CL 12.157 24 The facts disclosed by Winkelmann, Goethe, Bell...are joyful possessions...

Winkelried, Arnold, n. (1)

    Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?

winking, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.132 20 ...[young Englishmen] saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks;...

winkings, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 11 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...

winks, v. (2)

    ET8 5.132 21 ...[young Englishmen] saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks;...
    ET11 5.177 11 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing;...

winning, adj. (4)

    Lov1 2.172 19 The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
    Suc 7.288 26 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners...in their style;...
    Elo2 8.129 23 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...

winning, v. (2)

    ET15 5.271 4 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune, not to be won but by winning their cause.
    Trag 12.415 6 Our human being is wonderfully plastic; if it cannot win this satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by running out there and winning that.

winnings, n. (1)

    SR 2.89 21 ...do thou leave as unlawful these winnings...

winnow, v. (1)

    Farm 7.135 10 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain/...

winnowed, v. (1)

    Boks 7.195 19 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion...

wins, v. (6)

    AmS 1.105 24 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...
    LT 1.276 13 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...
    LT 1.290 5 ...[the Moral Sentiment] wins the cause with juries;...
    ET4 5.54 1 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
    Schr 10.277 13 I like to see a man...who wins all souls to his way of thinking.
    CInt 12.120 14 [Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly.

Winslow, Jakob Benignus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 23 Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam...Winslow...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...

winsome, adj. (1)

    PI 8.48 16 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.

winter, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.18 10 I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery...
    LE 1.168 5 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    MR 1.255 15 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Hist 2.20 18 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Nat2 3.191 13 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days.
    SwM 4.106 5 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
    MoS 4.167 10 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray days, and autumn and winter weather.
    Elo1 7.72 24 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    OA 7.318 8 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
    Elo2 8.113 26 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling through thickets in a winter forest...
    Imtl 8.323 7 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.323 15 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm;...
    Thor 10.466 12 [Thoreau] had made summer and winter observations on [the Concord River] for many years...
    Thor 10.479 12 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    War 11.167 19 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.
    SMC 11.371 10 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles to keep themselves from being frozen. On the third of December, they went into winter quarters.
    MAng1 12.227 26 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
    Trag 12.411 4 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...

Winter Evening's Tale, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 7 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream, or Winter Evening's Tale...

winter, n. (33)

    Nat 1.42 8 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    Con 1.298 21 ...in autumn and winter we stand by the old;...
    Hist 2.20 16 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
    Hist 2.21 19 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
    Fdsp 2.193 20 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night;...
    NER 3.257 25 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    PPh 4.72 25 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter...
    NMW 4.228 20 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
    NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
    NMW 4.248 18 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    ET3 5.38 17 Here [in England] is no winter...
    F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    F 6.37 6 ...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
    Civ 7.28 1 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
    WD 7.169 25 One author is good for winter, and one for the dog-days.
    Elo2 8.123 8 On his return in the winter to the Senate at Washington, [John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Res 8.152 10 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    QO 8.187 8 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
    Insp 8.288 11 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
    EzRy 10.382 2 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching, which he had tried the preceding winter.
    MMEm 10.414 26 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter...
    HDC 11.29 20 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.36 15 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
    HDC 11.44 8 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
    CL 12.135 23 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing; in winter, to the woods.
    CW 12.171 14 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you...access...all winter, to miles of ice for the skater.
    CW 12.177 20 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night...
    CW 12.177 24 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    Bost 12.196 2 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...
    Bost 12.196 7 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.197 2 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    Milt1 12.264 24 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion;...

wintered, v. (1)

    SR 2.44 3 Wintered with the hawk and fox,/ Power and speed be hands and feet./

winters, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.199 9 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God, which many summers and many winters must ripen.
    OA 7.316 27 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    PPo 8.263 4 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    LLNE 10.335 12 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...

winter's, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 22 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer, after how many and many a hard-fought summer's day and winter's day;...

winter-schoolmaster, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 8 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...

Winthrop, John, n. (6)

    HDC 11.32 1 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.41 21 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.41 23 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
    HDC 11.45 10 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness.
    HDC 11.50 16 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    HDC 11.85 26 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps of Winthrop and Dudley;...

wintry, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.74 14 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    Suc 7.297 27 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening, grim and wintry...was enough for us;...

wipe, v. (3)

    Comp 2.116 8 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot wipe out the foot-track... so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    Art1 2.353 6 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...

wiped, v. (4)

    PPo 8.264 6 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    Aris 10.35 17 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    LVB 11.92 24 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
    FSLC 11.212 18 [The Fugitive Slave Law] must be abrogated and wiped out of the statute-book;...

wipes, v. (1)

    Suc 7.309 5 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground...and wipes carefully out every trace by new creation.

wiping, v. (1)

    Res 8.152 2 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...

wire, n. (4)

    Exp 3.50 18 Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
    Wth 6.84 15 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    Art2 7.43 24 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    Chr2 10.121 13 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.

wire-gauze, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.11 2 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...wire-gauze masks over the face...are no defence against this virus...

wire-puller, n. (1)

    CInt 12.120 11 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...not a wire-puller...

wires, n. (5)

    SL 2.134 19 Did the wires generate the galvanism?
    F 6.44 4 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    CbW 6.257 3 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    PC 8.227 4 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    Chr2 10.95 21 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes, there where all the wires terminate which hold the world in magnetic unity...

Wisconsin, adj. (1)

    JBB 11.272 13 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.

Wisconsin, n. (2)

    ET6 5.105 6 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience, as much as a solitary pioneer in Wisconsin.
    CbW 6.268 22 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they too... have engagements and necessities. They are just starting for Wisconsin;...

Wisconsin, Northern, n. (1)

    CL 12.144 13 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...

Wisdom, Divine, n. (1)

    MLit 12.333 19 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries, and pale their legendary lustre before the fires of the Divine Wisdom which burn in his heart?

wisdom, n. (227)

    Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
    Nat 1.38 16 The wise man shows his wisdom in separation...
    Nat 1.46 20 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.63 24 ...the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one...is that for which all things exist...
    Nat 1.64 18 This [spiritual] view, which admonishes me where the sources of wisdom and power lie...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Nat 1.73 11 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the wisdom of children.
    Nat 1.74 26 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    AmS 1.82 18 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    AmS 1.95 24 ...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
    AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing...is an angel of wisdom.
    AmS 1.97 12 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    DSA 1.135 7 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach;...
    LE 1.159 20 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of antiquity, must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    LE 1.163 26 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
    LE 1.173 4 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not hate...his ancestors;...
    LE 1.181 2 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts, which, applied to better purpose, make true wisdom.
    LE 1.186 11 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom.
    LE 1.186 14 ...let us seek the shade, and find wisdom in neglect.
    MN 1.209 4 A man's wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary...
    MN 1.209 24 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    MN 1.211 7 [A poet] was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom.
    MN 1.217 4 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...
    MN 1.217 22 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him;...
    MN 1.218 27 Genius sheds wisdom like perfume...
    MN 1.221 8 The lovers of goodness have been one class, the students of wisdom another;...
    MR 1.245 17 Immense wisdom and riches are in [going without the conveniences of life].
    Con 1.302 20 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude...
    Con 1.310 3 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...the wisdom and the worth did get into parliament...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.313 15 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has taught you a better wisdom than her own...
    Tran 1.345 23 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods,-as ancient wisdom foretold their fate?
    YA 1.384 21 The actual differences of men must be...met with love and wisdom.
    Hist 2.33 1 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
    Hist 2.40 8 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
    SR 2.57 6 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
    SR 2.64 7 We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition...
    SR 2.64 21 Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom...
    SR 2.66 5 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away...
    SR 2.81 8 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    Comp 2.118 25 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom.
    Comp 2.122 4 There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom;...
    Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
    SL 2.137 27 We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope...
    SL 2.139 20 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...
    SL 2.149 10 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    SL 2.156 12 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.160 14 Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world.
    Lov1 2.188 7 Thus are we put in training for a love...which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere...
    Lov1 2.188 8 Thus are we put in training for a love...which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.
    Fdsp 2.206 8 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
    Fdsp 2.212 3 There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom...
    Prd1 2.223 24 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants.
    Prd1 2.227 4 Some wisdom comes out of every natural and innocent action.
    Prd1 2.234 7 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Prd1 2.234 9 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
    Prd1 2.234 13 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only the wisdom of Poor Richard...
    Prd1 2.240 1 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    Hsm1 2.251 15 Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its wisdom appear as it does to him...
    OS 2.269 4 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
    OS 2.271 1 A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
    OS 2.277 23 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.278 6 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.
    OS 2.286 4 ...the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge [men];...
    OS 2.288 3 Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom...
    OS 2.288 20 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    Cir 2.312 17 All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the play.
    Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly;...
    Int 2.333 6 The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art.
    Pt1 3.29 26 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Exp 3.46 16 All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 't is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
    Exp 3.59 12 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Exp 3.60 7 ...to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
    Exp 3.66 27 The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
    Exp 3.74 27 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Exp 3.81 16 It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own [facts] from another's.
    Nat2 3.189 11 ...perhaps the discovery that wisdom has other tongues and ministers than we...might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    Nat2 3.196 22 ...wisdom is infused into every form.
    Pol1 3.204 23 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    NR 3.231 22 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been in nations...
    UGM 4.8 3 The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
    PPh 4.39 10 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.50 10 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    PPh 4.58 13 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
    PPh 4.69 19 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
    PPh 4.70 12 Body cannot teach wisdom;--God only.
    PPh 4.72 5 [Socrates] had a Franklin-like wisdom.
    SwM 4.122 5 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    SwM 4.126 26 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love; from the articulation of the sound, his wisdom;...
    SwM 4.132 17 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    SwM 4.134 23 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom...
    ShP 4.211 20 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    ShP 4.212 8 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ShP 4.219 20 ...love is compatible with universal wisdom.
    NMW 4.251 27 [Bonaparte] had hours of thought and wisdom.
    GoW 4.272 17 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.279 16 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with wisdom... that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    GoW 4.283 16 ...[Goethe] is very wise, though his talent often veils his wisdom.
    ET1 5.10 5 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor...for wisdom, wit, and indignation that are unforgetable.
    ET4 5.47 8 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. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...which resulted in this...robust wisdom.
    ET4 5.61 25 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country, nor especially such a leader as King Harold was for wisdom and bravery.
    ET10 5.169 19 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
    ET10 5.170 19 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET11 5.174 24 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct;...
    ET11 5.175 15 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood...
    ET12 5.201 7 Albert Alaskie...who visited England to admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth, was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
    ET14 5.252 12 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    ET15 5.268 4 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET17 5.293 8 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    ET18 5.307 20 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
    Ctr 6.138 1 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Ctr 6.159 26 ...[a cheerful intelligent face] indicates the purpose of nature and wisdom attained.
    Wsp 6.237 22 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    CbW 6.243 24 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with the bow, yet hit the white./
    CbW 6.246 17 ...it is only as [a man]...draws on this most private wisdom, that any good can come to him.
    CbW 6.254 12 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the infatuations no less than the wisdom of Cromwell;...
    CbW 6.257 1 It is a sentence of ancient wisdom that God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    CbW 6.261 24 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants, and he will come out of it with broader wisdom and manly power.
    CbW 6.264 11 ...to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
    Bty 6.305 26 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...Beauty hiding all wisdom and power in its calm sky.
    Civ 7.23 18 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Civ 7.28 23 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...
    Civ 7.30 27 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness, and force them to serve against their will the ends of wisdom and virtue.
    Art2 7.47 9 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom...
    Elo1 7.67 25 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome...
    Elo1 7.97 21 ...[the eloquent man] is to convert [the people] into fiery apostles and publishers of the same wisdom.
    DL 7.106 27 ...by beautiful traits, which without art yet seem the masterpieces of wisdom...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    WD 7.177 3 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point...
    Boks 7.190 16 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.
    Boks 7.198 13 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher, with loftier strains of musical wisdom than Homer reached;...
    Boks 7.201 3 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of the ancients on the subject of love;...
    Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
    Clbs 7.250 3 Wisdom is like electricity.
    Clbs 7.250 5 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom...
    Cour 7.273 1 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    Suc 7.294 10 The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    Suc 7.306 15 Health is the condition of wisdom...
    OA 7.330 27 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    OA 7.331 27 ...we have had robust centenarians, and examples of dignity and wisdom.
    OA 7.335 23 ...the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years...
    SA 8.91 27 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either.
    SA 8.99 14 When men consult you, it is...that they wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question...
    SA 8.103 11 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what with a perpetual practical wisdom...
    Res 8.137 17 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature; by seeing that wisdom is better than strength;...
    Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of wisdom.
    Comc 8.163 21 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
    Comc 8.173 19 All our plans, managements, houses, poems, if compared with the wisdom and love which man represents, are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.180 3 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must make the best amends we can by seeking the wisdom of others to fill the time.
    QO 8.182 23 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    QO 8.195 9 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg, and wonders at the wisdom...
    PC 8.214 9 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish...
    PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
    PPo 8.247 18 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    PPo 8.258 24 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Insp 8.281 7 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Grts 8.302 13 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but wisdom and civility...
    Grts 8.312 20 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men...
    Imtl 8.326 8 Christianity brought a new wisdom.
    Imtl 8.339 22 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet, and let us digest for its inhabitants what we could of the wisdom of this.
    Dem1 10.7 27 ...we...owe to dreams a kind of divination and wisdom.
    Dem1 10.21 10 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
    Aris 10.64 5 You must, for wisdom, for sanity, have some access to the mind and heart of the common humanity.
    PerF 10.84 9 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    PerF 10.85 12 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
    PerF 10.86 23 Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
    Chr2 10.110 8 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
    Edc1 10.128 17 Here [in the household] is poverty and all the wisdom its hated necessities can teach...
    Edc1 10.129 16 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    Edc1 10.155 4 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    Supl 10.166 27 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    SovE 10.191 8 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...
    Prch 10.225 2 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give new senses, new wisdom of its own kind;...
    Schr 10.262 27 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...heralds of civility, nobility, learning and wisdom;...
    Schr 10.263 14 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...
    Schr 10.283 8 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a simple wisdom behind all acquired wisdom;...
    Schr 10.283 9 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a simple wisdom behind all acquired wisdom;...
    Schr 10.284 22 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
    Plu 10.307 13 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    Plu 10.312 23 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
    LLNE 10.340 17 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
    LLNE 10.356 4 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an auction or a fire.
    LLNE 10.368 26 ...what various practical wisdom...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    EzRy 10.392 26 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was an external experience, an Indian wisdom...
    MMEm 10.408 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    MMEm 10.419 9 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    Thor 10.454 18 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much, but approved it with later wisdom.
    Thor 10.464 10 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...
    HDC 11.49 17 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.
    HDC 11.83 3 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley] with whom is wisdom, our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    EWI 11.100 2 ...whether by the wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of its adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.124 24 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    War 11.153 11 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
    FSLC 11.210 16 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLN 11.218 25 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings; but there is fact, thought, and wisdom in the crude mass...
    FSLN 11.231 6 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair; the Whig wisdom was only reprieve...
    FSLN 11.237 18 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.
    AKan 11.258 12 We adore the forms of law, instead of making them vehicles of wisdom and justice.
    EPro 11.317 22 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity;...
    EPro 11.325 15 We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    ALin 11.328 16 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    ALin 11.333 16 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later...turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
    Wom 11.421 13 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    ChiE 11.472 1 China is old, not in time only, but in wisdom...
    FRO2 11.487 27 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...only humble and docile before the source of the wisdom he has discovered within him.
    PLT 12.8 24 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    PLT 12.27 16 Wisdom is like electricity.
    PLT 12.27 17 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom...
    PLT 12.29 22 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...
    PLT 12.46 2 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    PLT 12.57 21 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    PLT 12.57 21 There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.
    PLT 12.59 14 [A fact] is...only a means now to new sallies of the imagination and new progress of wisdom.
    II 12.65 8 We have a certain blind wisdom...
    II 12.67 4 All true wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to this instinct...
    II 12.67 8 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...
    II 12.77 6 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms...
    II 12.80 12 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
    CInt 12.127 4 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CW 12.173 9 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist...
    Bost 12.185 19 ...wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease.
    Bost 12.204 2 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;-not any remarkable book of wisdom;...
    MAng1 12.243 1 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
    Milt1 12.267 12 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.298 26 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...
    MLit 12.311 17 ...[the Present Age] has all books. It reprints the wisdom of the world.
    MLit 12.321 15 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    AgMs 12.364 4 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.
    EurB 12.366 25 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning.

Wisdom, n. (4)

    Con 1.302 27 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and disproportioned to its powers...
    SL 2.156 15 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    OS 2.269 18 Only by the vision of that Wisdom [the soul] can the horoscope of the ages be read...
    MoS 4.169 18 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me...

Wisdom, Supreme, n. (1)

    DSA 1.125 23 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.

wisdoms, n. (1)

    Wom 11.406 7 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.

wise, adj. (298)

    Nat 1.8 4 Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
    Nat 1.30 21 ...wise men pierce this rotten diction...
    Nat 1.34 5 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    Nat 1.38 15 The wise man shows his wisdom in separation...
    Nat 1.40 10 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
    Nat 1.45 6 The wise man, in doing one thing, does all;...
    Nat 1.70 5 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    Nat 1.75 19 It were a wise inquiry for the closet, to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    Nat 1.77 5 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...wise discourse...
    AmS 1.88 25 The writer was a just and wise spirit...
    AmS 1.93 17 Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.
    AmS 1.94 20 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    DSA 1.142 12 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good...
    LE 1.172 8 ...a wise man will never esteem [the book of philosophy] anything final and transcending.
    LE 1.181 14 Let [the scholar] know...by mutual reaction of thought and life, to make thought solid, and life wise;...
    MN 1.201 22 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.202 19 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    MN 1.217 16 He who is in love is wise...
    MN 1.221 10 Truth is always holy, holiness is always wise.
    MR 1.250 3 Now if I talk with a sincere wise man...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    LT 1.271 17 In conversation with a wise man, we find ourselves apologizing for our employments;...
    Tran 1.341 20 ...every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these [Transcendentalists] must. The question which a wise man and a student of modern history will ask, is, what that kind is?
    YA 1.391 2 ...the wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet;...
    Hist 2.7 7 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.7 11 All literature writes the character of the wise man.
    Hist 2.34 9 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    Hist 2.38 22 [History] shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man.
    SR 2.58 3 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
    SR 2.81 3 ...the wise man stays at home...
    Comp 2.113 6 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it. A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life...
    Comp 2.113 14 If you are wise you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
    Comp 2.118 5 The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants.
    Comp 2.122 19 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
    SL 2.138 11 ...[a man] is very wise, he is altogether ignorant.
    SL 2.138 14 There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics.
    SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
    Lov1 2.183 3 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
    Fdsp 2.198 17 ...I am not very wise;...
    Prd1 2.222 27 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men.
    Prd1 2.236 25 ...the good man will be the wise man, and the single-hearted the politic man.
    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...
    Hsm1 2.261 24 ...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
    OS 2.269 8 ...within man is...the wise silence;...
    OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    OS 2.286 4 ...the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not judge [men];...
    OS 2.296 13 [The soul] is not wise, but it sees through all things.
    Cir 2.308 13 A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
    Int 2.333 5 We are all wise.
    Art1 2.364 10 ...[sculpture] is...not the manly labor of a wise and spiritual nation.
    Pt1 3.1 1 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.14 1 The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches...
    Pt1 3.38 17 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism...
    Exp 3.60 16 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, to-day.
    Exp 3.82 1 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    Chr1 3.100 21 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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