Wave to Wealth

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

wave, n. (27)

    MN 1.219 5 [Genius] is sun and moon and wave and fire in music...
    LT 1.266 16 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    LT 1.288 2 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea;...
    Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the wave which lashes incessantly the rock...
    SR 2.87 11 Society is a wave.
    SR 2.87 11 The wave moves onward...
    Comp 2.91 5 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./
    Cir 2.304 8 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Cir 2.304 15 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave...
    NER 3.262 2 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
    PPh 4.77 3 The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks.
    ET2 5.32 27 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never anchor on the same wave... the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET3 5.41 11 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    F 6.32 6 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
    Bty 6.279 8 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
    Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the annual wave of vegetation...
    Farm 7.151 5 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best; and each succeeding wave of population is driven to poorer...
    WD 7.163 26 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave.
    OA 7.314 8 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    PPo 8.258 9 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./
    Aris 10.66 9 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments, the parent fountain from which this goodly Universe flows as a wave.
    Koss 11.398 20 [The sympathy of Americans] is not a blind wave;...
    Wom 11.412 15 [Women] emit from their pores...wave upon wave of rosy light...
    Wom 11.412 16 [Women] emit from their pores...wave upon wave of rosy light...
    NHI 12.2 3 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    CL 12.153 23 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune;...

wave, v. (3)

    Nat 1.32 1 At the call of a noble sentiment, again the woods wave...
    ET9 5.151 21 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    Wth 6.83 17 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./

waved, v. (1)

    PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

wavelet, n. (1)

    DSA 1.124 1 ...one mind is everywhere active...in each wavelet of the pool;...

wavering, n. (1)

    UGM 4.14 19 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent, and the wavering, determined.

Waverley [Walter Scott], n. (3)

    LE 1.172 24 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...
    Mrs1 3.148 16 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Scot 11.465 9 The tone of strength in Waverley at once announced the master...

waves, n. (42)

    Nat 1.20 13 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
    Nat 1.32 22 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    AmS 1.106 2 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
    Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from age to age...
    YA 1.364 25 The bountiful continent is ours...to the waves of the Pacific sea;...
    YA 1.379 2 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling, like the waves of the sea, before new claims of the same sort.
    Hist 2.26 19 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Comp 2.98 20 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    SL 2.165 19 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    OS 2.285 5 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    Cir 2.317 10 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Int 2.327 3 As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
    Exp 3.48 21 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    Pol1 3.211 2 We are not at the mercy of any waves of chance.
    NR 3.223 1 In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave strives/...
    NER 3.271 25 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    SwM 4.121 17 Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves.
    MoS 4.185 24 ...the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him.
    ET5 5.94 8 The foundations of [England's] greatness are the rolling waves;...
    ET6 5.111 16 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET14 5.257 17 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil, in waves so rich that we do not miss the central form.
    F 6.19 16 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    Wth 6.99 2 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    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 6.265 17 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
    CbW 6.271 26 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves.
    Bty 6.292 21 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of...sea waves...
    Ill 6.307 1 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
    Ill 6.307 3 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
    SS 7.11 20 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    Boks 7.219 18 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark; I watch them on waves on the beach;...
    Suc 7.300 10 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves!
    PI 8.57 3 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will wash and float him also...
    PPo 8.261 7 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Dem1 10.10 25 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    Edc1 10.159 10 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society...
    MMEm 10.397 11 But O, these waves and leaves,-/ When happy, stoic Nature grieves,-/ No human speech so beautiful/ As their murmurs, mine to lull./
    War 11.173 19 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be...immovable in the waves of the crowd.
    RBur 11.443 5 ...hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of [the memory of Burns].
    CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    Mem 12.90 12 ...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps things from falling into a lump, or flowing in waves.
    MAng1 12.220 10 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.

wave's, n. (1)

    Ill 6.307 23 When thou dost return/ On the wave's circulation,/ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./

waves, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.59 11 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./

waving, adj. (4)

    Lov1 2.176 21 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Fdsp 2.210 17 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook?
    Cir 2.302 27 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    Nat2 3.172 13 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the waving rye-field;... these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

waving, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.172 14 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the mimic waving of acres of houstonia...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    War 11.163 18 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this waving of national flags...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

waving, v. (2)

    Nat 1.10 25 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old.
    Hist 2.32 7 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.

wax, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.238 1 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles...

wax, n. (10)

    Tran 1.335 5 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
    Art1 2.360 9 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands...
    Pow 6.60 8 Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or whether with clay;...
    Bty 6.294 11 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    Elo1 7.74 4 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.
    Cour 7.254 26 ...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;...
    PLT 12.57 24 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax...
    Mem 12.98 2 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who...shares experiences like theirs. 'T is like the impression made by the same stamp in sand or in wax.
    MAng1 12.231 18 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax.

wax, v. (1)

    PI 8.47 23 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment;...

waxen, adj. (1)

    OA 7.328 1 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...

waxes, v. (2)

    Cir 2.309 22 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand...
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...

waxing, v. (1)

    AmS 1.108 11 ...waxing greater by all these supplies, we crave a better and more abundant food.

wax-work, n. (1)

    Art2 7.45 2 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.

Way, Appian, n. (1)

    Schr 10.285 22 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature, which were before the Appian Way...

Way, Milky, n. (1)

    EurB 12.366 2 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

way, n. (403)

    Nat 1.21 17 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city on his way to the scaffold.
    Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.33 18 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong;...
    Nat 1.77 6 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way...
    AmS 1.91 9 Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading...
    AmS 1.98 12 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar.
    AmS 1.101 17 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the...tangling vines in the way of the self-relying...
    AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...which lies no great way back;...
    DSA 1.120 15 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that...
    DSA 1.134 2 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a godly way of living;...
    LE 1.160 27 There is a better way than this indolent learning of another.
    LE 1.176 7 ...out of our shallow and frivolous way of life, how can greatness ever grow?
    MN 1.222 18 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight.
    MR 1.230 17 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    MR 1.230 19 The young man...finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
    MR 1.236 5 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor...
    MR 1.248 21 If there are inconveniences and what is called ruin in the way...yet it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy...recesses of life.
    MR 1.249 14 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
    MR 1.251 20 ...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his bread without salt.
    MR 1.254 24 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    LT 1.277 24 [The work of the reformer] is done in the same way [as other work], it is done profanely, not piously;...
    Con 1.315 4 On his way [Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    Con 1.316 3 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying, This way of life is wrong...
    Tran 1.330 4 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.
    Tran 1.339 14 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    YA 1.363 4 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    YA 1.375 18 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    YA 1.379 23 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better...
    YA 1.380 4 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to shorter methods.
    YA 1.384 16 This is the value of the Communities;...the revolution which they indicate as on the way.
    YA 1.390 19 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist...
    Hist 2.9 15 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way.
    Hist 2.41 1 ...the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.
    SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...in the swift, summary way of boys...
    SR 2.68 22 ...when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way;...
    SR 2.68 25 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
    SR 2.69 1 You take the way from man, not to man.
    SR 2.70 1 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    SR 2.73 6 ...these [family] relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way.
    SR 2.74 14 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    SR 2.78 26 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man] because he held on his way...
    Comp 2.94 2 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many...crooked passages in our journey, that would not suffer us to lose our way.
    Comp 2.126 17 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life...
    SL 2.132 15 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These...never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them.
    SL 2.136 1 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way...
    SL 2.136 9 Why should all virtue work in one and the same way?
    SL 2.153 11 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.165 7 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
    Fdsp 2.212 9 ...the only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Prd1 2.228 1 Let a man keep the law,--any law,--and his way will be strown with satisfactions.
    Hsm1 2.247 8 Soph. Martius, O Martius,/ Thou now hast found a way to conquer me./
    Hsm1 2.254 5 In some way the time [the magnanimous] seem to lose is redeemed...
    Hsm1 2.259 17 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way...
    OS 2.271 16 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us;...
    OS 2.288 15 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
    Cir 2.315 21 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Cir 2.316 7 ...that second man has his own way of looking at things;...
    Cir 2.319 10 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are...not newness, not the way onward.
    Cir 2.321 27 The way of life is wonderful;...
    Int 2.327 26 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions from the surrounding creation after its own way.
    Int 2.345 3 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness which you have also your way of seeing...
    Pt1 3.1 3 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...
    Pt1 3.12 22 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
    Pt1 3.12 25 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish, a little way from the ground or the water;...
    Pt1 3.27 11 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...
    Pt1 3.39 19 In our way of talking we say That is yours, this is mine;...
    Exp 3.47 5 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    Exp 3.61 15 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
    Exp 3.81 2 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
    Exp 3.83 3 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order, but I name them as I find them in my way.
    Exp 3.85 4 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Chr1 3.104 12 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Chr1 3.108 14 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his own high unprecedented way.
    Chr1 3.110 14 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for ages shows empire the way.
    Mrs1 3.120 6 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Mrs1 3.128 1 Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue.
    Mrs1 3.130 25 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    Mrs1 3.132 9 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stand on their head, or what else soever, in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.136 7 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
    Mrs1 3.141 5 Insight we must have, or we shall run against one another and miss the way to our food;...
    Mrs1 3.144 20 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.
    Gts 3.162 8 We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves;...
    Nat2 3.180 12 It is a long way from granite to the oyster;...
    Nat2 3.185 6 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way;...
    Pol1 3.203 3 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    NR 3.231 9 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
    NR 3.238 20 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own, and in their way admirable.
    NR 3.240 18 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name? Let it be a new way of living.
    NR 3.244 1 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it, and no longer attempts to pass through it, but takes another way.
    NR 3.245 10 ...the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie;...
    NER 3.252 5 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable.
    NER 3.261 5 [Many reformers] lose their way;...
    NER 3.263 7 In another way the right will be vindicated.
    NER 3.266 13 ...when [the individual's] thoughts look one way and his actions another;...what concert can be?
    NER 3.280 15 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
    UGM 4.9 2 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.11 3 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    UGM 4.25 2 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going.
    PPh 4.66 25 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it.
    PPh 4.68 9 We can define but a little way;...
    PPh 4.73 25 [Socrates] always knew the way out; knew it, yet would not tell it.
    PPh 4.75 19 ...[Plato] was able, in the direct way...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    PPh 4.78 17 The way to know [Plato] is to compare him, not with nature, but with other men.
    SwM 4.138 24 ...man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.
    MoS 4.153 27 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of thinking is that it runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
    MoS 4.157 2 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.161 14 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    MoS 4.171 11 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    MoS 4.180 16 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way?
    MoS 4.184 20 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him.
    ShP 4.190 12 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way...
    ShP 4.191 1 The world has brought [the great man] thus far on his way.
    ShP 4.193 18 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way.
    ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age...
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things. Men give way before such a man, as before natural events.
    NMW 4.233 23 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward...
    NMW 4.234 6 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
    NMW 4.234 8 [Napoleon] saw only the object: and the obstacle must give way.
    NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained.
    NMW 4.251 6 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence?
    GoW 4.279 21 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
    GoW 4.280 1 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense. And this passage is not made in any mean or creeping way...
    GoW 4.281 4 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    ET1 5.18 1 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
    ET1 5.24 11 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn;...
    ET2 5.25 5 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which separately are organized much in the same way as our New England Lyceums...
    ET2 5.27 14 Our good master...by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.
    ET3 5.38 10 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster;...
    ET4 5.58 12 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.63 6 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    ET4 5.69 23 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET4 5.70 2 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
    ET5 5.91 12 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...
    ET8 5.127 10 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    ET8 5.129 5 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET9 5.144 9 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living...
    ET10 5.167 8 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner,--far on the way to be spiders and needles.
    ET11 5.176 18 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars.
    ET15 5.271 21 The [London] Times, like every important institution, shows the way to a better.
    ET16 5.273 22 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
    ET16 5.280 24 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge, on our way [to Wilton]...
    ET16 5.284 20 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube, of 30 feet every way.
    ET16 5.288 9 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    F 6.7 2 The way of Providence is a little rude.
    F 6.14 8 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...
    F 6.23 17 ...it is wholesome to man to look not at Fate, but the other way...
    F 6.24 20 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.27 2 Once we were stepping a little this way and a little that way;...
    F 6.27 3 Once we were stepping a little this way and a little that way;...
    F 6.27 6 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much...of the point we would make, as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.30 7 One way is right to go;...
    F 6.31 10 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    F 6.38 10 Nature...takes the shortest way to her ends.
    Pow 6.73 8 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Pow 6.75 21 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.78 10 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    Pow 6.79 7 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Wth 6.88 13 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Wth 6.101 8 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
    Wth 6.106 23 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.114 13 ...vanity...[is] a long way leading nowhere.
    Wth 6.115 27 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way... when he would go out of his gate.
    Wth 6.121 15 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us when we prefer our own way to hers.
    Wth 6.122 3 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    Wth 6.123 11 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things have their own way.
    Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Wth 6.126 10 The way to ruin is short and facile.
    Wth 6.127 4 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Ctr 6.142 15 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ctr 6.166 3 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    Bhr 6.169 18 There is always a best way of doing everything...
    Bhr 6.169 20 Manners are the happy way of doing things;...
    Bhr 6.171 22 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way.
    Bhr 6.188 7 In persons of character we do not remark manners, because of their instantaneousness. We are surprised by the thing done, out of all power to watch the way of it.
    Wsp 6.203 8 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.219 9 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Wsp 6.224 26 The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
    Wsp 6.225 6 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
    Wsp 6.230 17 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for me.
    Wsp 6.236 11 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way;...
    CbW 6.251 6 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.
    CbW 6.255 24 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones, and all of them with the very commonplace wish to find a short way to wealth.
    CbW 6.255 27 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way...
    Bty 6.294 24 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ill 6.325 16 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that...
    Civ 7.19 23 The Chinese and Japanese, though each complete in his way, is different from the man of Madrid...
    Civ 7.28 4 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters].
    Civ 7.28 26 That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements.
    Civ 7.29 22 We...run this way and that way superserviceably;...
    Civ 7.29 23 We...run this way and that way superserviceably;...
    Civ 7.30 18 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...
    Art2 7.48 2 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He...put himself in the way to receive aid from some of them;...
    Elo1 7.79 17 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go...
    Elo1 7.81 11 ...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man' s] own, and who sees much farther on his own way than he?
    Elo1 7.98 26 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and reform mankind.
    DL 7.108 11 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their...their hope in their way of life.
    DL 7.117 11 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
    DL 7.123 27 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the crisis of life...
    Farm 7.138 8 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    WD 7.179 27 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are...the way to or the way from welfare, but not welfare.
    WD 7.182 20 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    WD 7.184 18 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable. In this way the moment and the character are one.
    Boks 7.190 11 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Boks 7.201 20 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
    Boks 7.205 7 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him...down--with notice of all remarkable objects on the way--through fourteen hundred years of time.
    Boks 7.208 2 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.214 22 ...the novel will find the way to our interiors one day...
    Boks 7.216 1 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
    Clbs 7.227 13 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk. The physician helps them mainly in the same way...
    Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Clbs 7.249 13 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him out, namely, by having as good as he.
    Cour 7.254 5 Men admire...the man...who has the impiety to make the rivers run the way he wants them;...
    Cour 7.262 13 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way.
    Cour 7.266 11 The thoughtful man says...do you not see...that my way of living is organic?
    Cour 7.278 16 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
    Cour 7.279 20 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    Suc 7.283 18 ...we value ourselves on all these feats. 'T is the way of the world;...
    Suc 7.285 20 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they do not know the way to return thither...
    Suc 7.288 23 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...
    Suc 7.309 26 Good will makes insight, as one finds his way to the sea by embarking on a river.
    PI 8.7 14 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.21 4 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that...
    PI 8.30 11 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it as the man who sees his way walks in it.
    PI 8.40 1 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation]...knows the right way...
    PI 8.42 11 The poet is enamoured of thoughts and laws. These know their way...
    PI 8.60 22 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke...
    PI 8.68 1 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise which ever in the best hour beckons us?
    SA 8.80 14 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points.
    SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet.
    SA 8.99 9 The way to have large occasional views...is to have large habitual views.
    SA 8.103 27 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look?
    Res 8.138 17 ...if you tell me...that there is always a way to everything desirable;...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.147 9 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off...
    QO 8.189 5 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    PC 8.229 7 Every generalization shows the way to a larger.
    PPo 8.245 21 Good is what goes on the road of Nature. On the straight way the traveller never misses.
    PPo 8.254 27 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...
    PPo 8.260 4 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    PPo 8.260 18 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
    Insp 8.272 13 Every youth should know the way to prophecy...
    Insp 8.294 26 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans;...
    Grts 8.301 5 ...in the pursuit [of greatness] we do not stand in each other's way.
    Grts 8.308 2 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way;...
    Grts 8.308 3 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way;...
    Grts 8.311 4 No way has been found for making heroism easy...
    Grts 8.311 13 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
    Grts 8.316 5 I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way.
    Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
    Imtl 8.343 18 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end? But this is the way we rise.
    Dem1 10.14 20 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
    Aris 10.37 8 ...[the common man] is drawn this way and that way...
    Aris 10.37 9 ...[the common man] is drawn this way and that way...
    Aris 10.48 5 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    Aris 10.51 26 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace, showing them the way they should go...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Aris 10.59 6 ...perplexity is [a grand interest's] noonday: minds that make their way without winds and against tides.
    Aris 10.63 5 I know the difficulties in the way of the man of honor.
    Aris 10.64 20 ...affairs themselves show the way in which they should be handled;...
    Aris 10.64 25 Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found.
    PerF 10.71 11 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...
    PerF 10.72 7 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom...he sails the way these irresistible winds blow.
    PerF 10.77 24 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his way of classifying and seeing things...
    PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Chr2 10.98 24 We pretend not to define the way of [the moral sentiment's] access to the private heart.
    Chr2 10.103 2 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Chr2 10.109 4 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Chr2 10.117 22 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Edc1 10.123 4 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.137 26 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Edc1 10.138 2 Cannot we let people...enjoy life in their own way?
    Edc1 10.141 22 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.141 24 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    Edc1 10.153 10 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    Supl 10.163 5 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...
    SovE 10.195 5 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency. I will love him, though he shed frost and darkness on every way of mine.
    SovE 10.196 14 ...we are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not.
    SovE 10.196 25 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
    SovE 10.201 16 We all give way to superstitions.
    SovE 10.202 6 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    Prch 10.224 4 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents, which lose their way by the lust of display, to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    MoL 10.243 12 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class, not in this coarse way [of California], but in plausible and covert ways.
    MoL 10.253 20 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the English and German scholars on that foundation.
    Schr 10.268 25 ...if [the practical men] parade their business and public importance, it is by way of apology and palliation for not being the students and obeyers of those diviner laws.
    Schr 10.277 14 I like to see a man...who wins all souls to his way of thinking.
    Plu 10.299 4 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any degradation. He does not lose his way...
    LLNE 10.325 1 The ancient manners were giving way.
    LLNE 10.355 24 ...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 instantly things swing the other way...
    LLNE 10.358 3 The cheap way is to make every man do what he was born for.
    LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    EzRy 10.387 19 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son...was becoming intemperate.
    EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.409 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy...
    MMEm 10.423 26 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions?
    SlHr 10.440 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    SlHr 10.441 24 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might...
    SlHr 10.445 9 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted and of going to that in the shortest way.
    Thor 10.452 1 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.
    Thor 10.454 16 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...
    Thor 10.455 4 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because there each was in every one's way...
    GSt 10.504 23 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    LS 11.10 1 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols. It was the national way of teaching...
    LS 11.13 3 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also. In this way religious feasts grew up among the early Christians.
    LS 11.19 23 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    LS 11.20 3 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend, after the free way of friendship...
    HDC 11.33 2 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
    HDC 11.33 4 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    HDC 11.56 19 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships, and found the way to the West Indies...
    HDC 11.74 11 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    LVB 11.88 4 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...
    EWI 11.107 12 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
    EWI 11.109 25 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce. The planters were obliged to give way;...
    EWI 11.124 2 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off;...
    EWI 11.139 8 The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.153 27 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    War 11.170 5 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...
    War 11.170 25 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    War 11.172 4 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.200 13 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    FSLN 11.225 26 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    FSLN 11.226 27 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    FSLN 11.229 5 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
    FSLN 11.235 27 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    AsSu 11.247 18 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    JBB 11.272 24 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...
    JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
    ACiv 11.308 7 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    EPro 11.314 24 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    EPro 11.319 10 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    ALin 11.329 21 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent...
    HCom 11.344 25 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path to show his slayers the way to death!
    SMC 11.355 21 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and, by the way, it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    SMC 11.358 25 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work, all the way up...
    SMC 11.362 10 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
    SMC 11.367 22 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots...
    Wom 11.425 1 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road...
    Wom 11.425 2 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion...
    Wom 11.426 7 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    FRO2 11.488 15 [Miraculous dispensation] comes the wrong way; to comes from without, not within.
    CPL 11.503 20 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man,-has decided his way of life.
    FRep 11.511 8 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...
    FRep 11.516 13 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which, as they shall be determined in one way or the other, will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
    FRep 11.535 3 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril.
    FRep 11.543 26 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral which knows the way...
    PLT 12.10 5 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded.
    PLT 12.14 18 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...
    PLT 12.15 6 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it, notwithstanding the impediments which our sensual civilization puts in the way.
    PLT 12.16 17 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank.
    PLT 12.34 19 ...though [instinct] does not show objects, yet it shows the way.
    PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.42 1 [Perceptions] are your door to the seven heavens, and if you pass it by you will miss your way.
    PLT 12.42 15 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.
    PLT 12.53 14 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of another.
    PLT 12.54 22 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
    PLT 12.59 19 ...wit sees the short way...
    II 12.69 2 [Instinct] is resistless, and knows the way...
    II 12.69 9 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius. We ought to know the way to our nectar.
    II 12.69 10 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.69 12 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...
    II 12.73 17 The mark of the spirit is to know its way...
    II 12.73 20 [The spirit] has been in the universe before...and knows its way up and down.
    II 12.75 6 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...
    II 12.82 5 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    Mem 12.98 2 The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    Mem 12.99 1 ...[the loadstone] gains new particles all the way as you move it, but one falls off for every one that adheres.
    Mem 12.104 24 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
    Mem 12.109 16 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CInt 12.119 22 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people, and drive their hands and feet in the way he wishes them to go...
    CInt 12.127 23 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius, which only speaks truth, and after the way which truth uses, namely, Beauty;...
    CInt 12.128 12 Now if there be genius in the scholar...he is made to find his own way.
    CL 12.137 7 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...with loads of natural productions collected on the way.
    CL 12.142 7 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.144 8 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.
    CL 12.148 25 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Wherever they pass, they fill the way with clamor.
    CL 12.149 25 [The Indian] knows his way in a straight line from watercourse to watercourse...
    CL 12.150 1 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...
    CW 12.174 15 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    Bost 12.190 27 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.195 4 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Bost 12.202 6 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] London is a long way off...
    MAng1 12.227 5 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    MAng1 12.231 22 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...
    Milt1 12.266 10 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and, by way of marking the contrast to vulgar opinions, laying its chief stress on humility.
    Milt1 12.267 17 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    Milt1 12.276 19 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    ACri 12.302 13 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking... painting all things its own color. He has it all his own way.
    PD 12.307 1 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
    MLit 12.328 25 ...we may here set down by way of comment of [Goethe's] genius the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
    WSL 12.348 1 [Landor] is a master of condensation and suppression, and that in no vulgar way.
    AgMs 12.359 12 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year...
    AgMs 12.361 19 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring. But we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly. We have no choice in this matter; our way is but too plain.
    AgMs 12.362 22 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...
    PPr 12.384 19 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords! There is no help...in looking another way;...
    PPr 12.390 4 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...
    Let 12.392 16 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
    Trag 12.406 26 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...
    Trag 12.411 22 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

wayfarer, n. (1)

    Hist 2.18 14 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...

wayfaring, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.237 13 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...

waylay, v. (3)

    UGM 4.6 8 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    ET5 5.78 16 [The English] neither poison, nor waylay, nor assassinate;...
    HDC 11.75 7 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord], to waylay the enemy...

Ways, Milky, n. (1)

    SHC 11.434 23 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with...Milky Ways, for truck-roads.

ways, n. (62)

    MR 1.230 20 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
    MR 1.233 16 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    Con 1.309 14 ...I know your ways; I know the symptoms of the disease.
    Con 1.324 6 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Tran 1.348 21 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    Hist 2.38 16 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.
    SR 2.51 9 I ought to...speak the rude truth in all ways.
    SL 2.136 6 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
    SL 2.137 11 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    Lov1 2.173 6 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging, half-artful, half-artless ways of school-girls...
    Exp 3.58 2 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things...and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
    Pol1 3.220 5 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?
    NR 3.240 19 Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?
    NER 3.273 15 Men in all ways are better than they seem.
    UGM 4.12 15 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    SwM 4.139 9 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
    MoS 4.179 19 ...all the ways of culture and greatness lead to solitary imprisonment.
    ShP 4.209 3 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the prizes of life and the ways whereby we come at them;...
    ET1 5.6 7 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    ET6 5.107 1 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal, loving routine and conventional ways;...
    ET12 5.199 23 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
    ET12 5.212 13 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine...
    F 6.42 21 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
    Pow 6.76 10 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest;...
    Wth 6.99 24 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Ctr 6.162 2 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...
    CbW 6.250 6 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote.
    CbW 6.253 22 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
    CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living...
    DL 7.113 17 It is a sufficient accusation of our ways of living...that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    Boks 7.204 20 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Clbs 7.228 4 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    PI 8.14 2 [Men] assimilate themselves to [a new symbol], deal with it in all ways...
    PI 8.18 3 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.30 17 ...colder moods are forced to respect the ways of saying [the poet's thought]...
    PI 8.36 16 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    SA 8.102 25 With all our haste, and slipshod ways and flippant self-assertion, I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    QO 8.191 19 ...there are great ways of borrowing.
    PC 8.205 5 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    Insp 8.271 26 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    Imtl 8.345 11 ...whilst I find that all the ways of virtuous living lead upward and not downward,-yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Aris 10.51 25 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
    Edc1 10.137 15 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    Edc1 10.156 7 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways...the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    Edc1 10.156 24 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    MoL 10.243 12 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...in plausible and covert ways.
    Schr 10.268 6 ...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies, but not... in conventional ways.
    Schr 10.273 9 In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to them;...
    LLNE 10.360 17 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...
    LLNE 10.368 6 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways.
    Thor 10.465 13 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways...
    LS 11.19 26 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.
    EWI 11.123 16 The national aim and employment streams into our ways of thinking...
    FRO2 11.485 21 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
    PLT 12.36 4 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...clinging to his behemoth ways.
    CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.
    ACri 12.297 21 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
    MLit 12.317 15 ...these low customary ways are not all that survives in human beings.

wayside, n. (3)

    MN 1.207 26 Is it for [a man]...to linger by the wayside for opportunities?
    SL 2.161 14 The epochs of our life are...in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk;...
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.

weak, adj. (45)

    YA 1.391 12 ...nothing is so weak as an egotist.
    SR 2.68 10 It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
    SR 2.72 11 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    SR 2.89 10 He who knows...that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere...instantly rights himself...
    Comp 2.118 7 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point.
    Prd1 2.238 5 Every man is actually weak and apparently strong.
    Prd1 2.238 6 To himself, [a man] seems weak; to others, formidable.
    Exp 3.79 10 ...[the intellect] leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions.
    Chr1 3.94 20 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici; and the answer was, Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one.
    PPh 4.46 5 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    NMW 4.229 1 [Napoleon] is never weak and literary...
    ET4 5.49 19 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
    ET7 5.126 3 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET19 5.313 12 I see [England] not dispirited, not weak...
    F 6.24 3 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
    F 6.43 10 Whilst the man is weak, the earth takes up him.
    Pow 6.54 7 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    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./
    Bty 6.297 23 It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
    Civ 7.24 26 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    Elo1 7.98 12 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    Elo1 7.99 15 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    DL 7.133 12 Beside these aims [of the household], Society is weak...
    OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.
    Insp 8.268 4 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Imtl 8.348 3 [Jesus] is never once weak or sentimental;...
    Chr2 10.92 9 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will, he is weak;...
    Edc1 10.123 3 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Supl 10.171 27 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    Supl 10.176 16 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak...
    Schr 10.282 1 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts. We will not speak for them, because to speak for them seems so weak and hopeless.
    LLNE 10.326 23 The social sentiments are weak;...
    LLNE 10.326 24 ...the sentiment of patriotism is weak;...
    EzRy 10.385 18 The same faith [in particular providence] made what was strong and what was weak in Dr. Ripley and his associates.
    MMEm 10.397 5 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    HDC 11.52 1 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language? If a man be wise, and his sachem weak, must he obey him?
    FSLN 11.222 7 ...[Webster]...never indulged in a weak flourish...
    SMC 11.361 21 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot...
    FRep 11.543 9 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in, no weak party or nationality sacrificed...
    II 12.88 13 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should, and not like the moderns, in the weak would.
    II 12.88 23 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men, with their weak incapacity for principles...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
    Milt1 12.271 17 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which the federal power was weak and loosely defined...
    Pray 12.354 14 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.
    Pray 12.357 1 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself...

weak, n. (8)

    F 6.24 3 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.
    Schr 10.269 10 The shallow clamor against theoretic men comes from the weak.
    EWI 11.125 1 ...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.
    EWI 11.135 1 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    War 11.152 6 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    FSLN 11.230 10 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured...
    JBS 11.281 6 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?
    MLit 12.315 20 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.

weaken, v. (5)

    Con 1.321 27 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not weaken the State...
    CbW 6.253 10 It is of no use for us to make war with [the fools]; [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers] we shall not weaken them;...
    Insp 8.290 25 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
    Supl 10.164 4 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want,-not perceiving that superlatives are diminutives, and weaken;...
    Mem 12.99 13 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.

weakened, v. (1)

    HDC 11.55 26 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...

weakeners, n. (1)

    Boks 7.194 3 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.

weakening, v. (1)

    NMW 4.253 12 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments;...

weakens, v. (1)

    Mem 12.99 16 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.

weaker, adj. (6)

    SR 2.89 4 [A man] is weaker by every recruit to his banner.
    ET5 5.77 11 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him. The strong survived, the weaker went to the ground.
    ET18 5.300 8 In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
    F 6.11 17 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker.
    Pow 6.59 14 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    MoL 10.250 14 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.

weakest, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.40 9 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...
    CPL 11.498 10 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest; if to strength, we are the weakest;...

weakly, adv. (2)

    Hsm1 2.260 7 ...when you have chosen your part...do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
    SS 7.3 22 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...

weakness, n. (42)

    DSA 1.120 27 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.
    Con 1.306 1 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...
    YA 1.390 8 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood...always to throw himself on the side of weakness, of youth, of hope;...
    Hist 2.31 18 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    Comp 2.117 1 The good are befriended even by weakness and defect.
    Comp 2.117 21 Our strength grows out of our weakness.
    Lov1 2.186 18 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to...acquaint each with the strength and weakness of the other.
    Hsm1 2.260 10 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    Hsm1 2.261 1 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution...
    OS 2.271 13 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself.
    PPh 4.46 8 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    MoS 4.156 9 [The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun the weakness of philosophizing beyond my depth.
    MoS 4.168 25 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays: no weakness, no convulsion, no superlative...
    NMW 4.239 13 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
    GoW 4.270 13 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    ET15 5.261 14 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
    Bhr 6.181 27 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you... how [the nose's] forms express strength or weakness of will...
    Wsp 6.235 12 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    DL 7.103 11 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler, strong in his weakness...
    Cour 7.257 15 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    Res 8.153 6 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    Aris 10.43 18 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;-the resources of weakness and despair.
    PerF 10.75 26 ...disorder becomes order where [man] goes; weakness becomes power;...
    Chr2 10.100 15 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
    Edc1 10.139 10 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
    Supl 10.167 15 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character in speakers who use it.
    MoL 10.247 4 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm; to live by his strength, not by his weakness.
    Schr 10.264 27 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness.
    Schr 10.274 14 Let [men of thought] fight by their strength, not by their weakness.
    Schr 10.287 4 ...[the scholar] has weakness...
    Carl 10.493 17 [Carlyle] detects weakness on the instant, and touches it.
    EWI 11.99 20 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...but I shall not apologize for my weakness.
    EWI 11.99 20 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...
    EWI 11.100 6 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward. Therefore I will speak,-or, not I, but the might of liberty in my weakness.
    FSLN 11.230 1 ...where there is any weakness in a race, and [liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    TPar 11.290 12 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
    II 12.79 17 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.
    II 12.80 7 We must live by our strength, not by our weakness.
    Milt1 12.266 19 [Milton] celebrates in the martyrs the unresistible might of weakness.
    PPr 12.387 10 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them;...
    Trag 12.415 24 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month. She, however, never feels weakness in her back because of the slave-trade.

weaknesses, n. (1)

    GoW 4.279 13 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.

weal, n. (6)

    MR 1.253 11 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
    MoS 4.182 19 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe; it exists hospitably for the weal of souls;...
    HDC 11.47 18 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...
    AKan 11.259 1 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
    JBB 11.271 23 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
    PLT 12.44 23 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we contemplate.

wealth, n. (212)

    AmS 1.92 27 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    AmS 1.93 1 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    MN 1.191 17 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    MN 1.193 19 ...we set a bound to the respectability of wealth...
    MR 1.234 27 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    LT 1.261 6 The fact of aristocracy, with its two weapons of wealth and manners, is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    LT 1.261 9 The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy and religion...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Con 1.311 10 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Con 1.320 24 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...
    Tran 1.345 17 In looking at the class of counsel, and power, and wealth...of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    YA 1.366 6 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    YA 1.377 14 [Traders'] information, their wealth...have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.384 5 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family, with poverty, than on an association with wealth, will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.394 7 ...in England...such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hist 2.12 3 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type, and the decoration of it as the wealth of the nation increased;...
    Comp 2.104 19 Men...would have offices, wealth, power, and fame.
    Comp 2.114 17 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs.
    Comp 2.126 10 ...a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Fdsp 2.197 8 I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth.
    Prd1 2.222 22 One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good.
    Prd1 2.235 21 ...the best good of wealth is freedom.
    Hsm1. 2.252 9 That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism.
    OS 2.279 2 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.
    OS 2.289 8 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth...
    OS 2.289 12 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    Int 2.330 16 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Pt1 3.5 4 [The poet]...apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common wealth.
    Chr1 3.102 26 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you...have not kept your relation to him by adding to your wealth.
    Mrs1 3.122 2 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient, namely virtue, wit, beauty, wealth and power.
    Mrs1 3.126 4 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty when that of wealth was equally open to them.
    Mrs1 3.154 12 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly beggar.
    Gts 3.161 20 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift, and every man's wealth is an index of his merit.
    Nat2 3.175 21 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    Nat2 3.190 14 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer.
    Nat2 3.191 4 ...wealth was good as it appeased the animal cravings...
    Pol1 3.203 2 In the earliest society the proprietors made their own wealth...
    Pol1 3.210 5 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power.
    NR 3.244 22 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth...
    UGM 4.18 26 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
    PNR 4.85 10 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...
    ShP 4.209 2 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on wealth and poverty...
    NMW 4.227 26 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.253 11 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it is treacherous...
    GoW 4.279 3 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] lose their wealth...
    ET3 5.37 27 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.46 16 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
    ET4 5.61 3 Such...is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET4 5.65 3 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked, in explanation of the wealth of England, that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    ET4 5.72 9 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race had been Tartar nomads. The horse was all their wealth.
    ET5 5.92 12 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET5 5.93 23 [The English] have a wealth of men to fill important posts...
    ET5 5.98 25 The nation [England] is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth.
    ET5 5.98 26 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET7 5.119 1 [The English] love reality in wealth, power, hospitality...
    ET7 5.125 22 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power;...
    ET8 5.132 5 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... magnificence in wealth...
    ET10 5.153 2 There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth [as England].
    ET10 5.153 6 ...the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth...
    ET10 5.155 9 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth.
    ET10 5.160 11 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
    ET10 5.160 22 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET10 5.162 24 The creation of wealth in England in the last ninety years is a main fact in modern history.
    ET10 5.162 26 The wealth of London determines prices all over the globe.
    ET10 5.165 24 [The Englishman]...is seconded by wealth;...
    ET10 5.166 8 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass...
    ET10 5.166 11 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people.
    ET10 5.166 15 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves; each is a captain a hundred strong, and that wealth of men is represented again in the faculty of each individual...
    ET10 5.169 15 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting.
    ET10 5.169 18 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond, namely to the wise use, in view of the supreme wealth of nations?
    ET10 5.170 6 At present [England] does not rule her wealth.
    ET10 5.170 18 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth.
    ET11 5.181 10 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET11 5.185 19 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men, born to wealth and power...
    ET11 5.188 25 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind, engaged by their pride and wealth to this function.
    ET11 5.194 12 A man of wit [in England], who is also one of the celebrities of wealth and fashion, confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET12 5.208 12 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    ET12 5.209 18 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET12 5.211 16 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    ET13 5.214 20 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
    ET13 5.226 12 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    ET13 5.227 2 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.
    ET14 5.256 20 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    ET15 5.269 5 No dignity or wealth is a shield from [the London Times's] assault.
    ET18 5.302 17 ...the wealth of the source is seen in the plenitude of English nature.
    F 6.13 10 Now and then a man of wealth in the heyday of youth adopts the tenet of broadest freedom.
    F 6.13 12 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress...
    Pow 6.56 4 The first wealth is health.
    Wth 6.85 12 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
    Wth 6.85 17 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature...
    Wth 6.86 5 Wealth is in applications of mind to nature;...
    Wth 6.86 16 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam; he also saw the wealth of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan.
    Wth 6.87 16 Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out;...
    Wth 6.88 1 Wealth begins with these articles of necessity.
    Wth 6.89 1 Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.
    Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
    Wth 6.93 8 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
    Wth 6.96 1 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    Wth 6.96 7 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of Roman Caesars...or whatever great proprietors.
    Wth 6.97 2 ...it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.99 9 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.103 10 Wealth is mental; wealth is moral.
    Wth 6.103 11 Wealth is mental; wealth is moral.
    Wth 6.105 19 Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
    Wth 6.109 26 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...private wealth...
    Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Wth 6.118 11 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny...
    Ctr 6.131 3 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, and of wealth as a means of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.152 26 A gorgeous livery [in England] indicates new and awkward city wealth.
    Ctr 6.154 25 How can you mind...the figure you make in company, or wealth...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Bhr 6.170 21 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she...is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius.
    Wsp 6.208 17 There is faith...in wealth...but not in divine causes.
    CbW 6.255 24 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones, and all of them with the very commonplace wish to find a short way to wealth.
    CbW 6.256 27 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads; which have evoked not only all the wealth of the soil, but the energy of millions of men.
    Civ 7.31 22 I see the immense material prosperity...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities...
    Civ 7.32 1 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Civ 7.32 25 ...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
    DL 7.112 1 ...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us...
    DL 7.113 20 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.113 26 ...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of the love of the Beautiful.
    DL 7.114 14 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist.
    DL 7.114 17 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution. Give us wealth. You ask too much.
    DL 7.114 18 Few have wealth, but all must have a home.
    DL 7.114 19 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed...
    DL 7.114 21 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed, and often is sacrificed without acquiring wealth at last.
    DL 7.114 23 ...[wealth] cannot be the right answer; there are objections to wealth.
    DL 7.114 23 Wealth is a shift.
    DL 7.114 25 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and reform.
    DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    DL 7.118 7 Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are.
    Farm 7.140 21 ...the farm is the capital of wealth;...
    Boks 7.216 7 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments. They make us skeptical, by giving prominence to wealth and social position.
    Clbs 7.231 15 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed; such exploits of discourse, such feats of society! What new powers, what mines of wealth!
    Cour 7.253 8 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Cour 7.253 12 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
    Cour 7.260 14 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    Cour 7.273 7 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as health or wealth... that count, but the aims only.
    Suc 7.287 4 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.290 17 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud.
    Suc 7.297 2 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    PI 8.74 17 I doubt never...the immense wealth of the mind.
    SA 8.79 24 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force,--behavior, and not performance...or much less, wealth.
    SA 8.100 25 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    SA 8.101 18 ...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary nobility].
    Res 8.139 19 Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature.
    Res 8.141 8 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    Res 8.143 5 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    Comc 8.172 21 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I...have also much wealth...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
    Insp 8.281 24 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Insp 8.297 2 [Scholars] are, for the most part, men who needed only a little wealth.
    Grts 8.304 19 I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
    Imtl 8.350 14 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth, and live thyself as many years as thou listeth. if thou knowest a boon like this, choose it, together with wealth and far-extending life.
    Imtl 8.350 27 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants, with thee the dance and song. If we should obtain wealth, we live only as long as thou pleasest.
    Aris 10.31 18 [The best young men] do not yet covet...any exuberance of wealth, wealth that costs too much;...
    Aris 10.40 26 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach out of their material wealth and glitter...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.46 14 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
    Edc1 10.125 5 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.136 1 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth.
    Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Edc1 10.141 27 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Supl 10.177 11 The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
    SovE 10.189 21 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    MoL 10.242 22 ...the wealth of the globe was here...
    MoL 10.243 11 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...
    MoL 10.247 26 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm...
    MoL 10.252 17 Thought...is the prolific source of all arts, of all wealth, of all delight, of all grandeur.
    Schr 10.271 2 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    Plu 10.307 10 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth.
    Plu 10.321 10 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    LLNE 10.348 7 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    MMEm 10.409 11 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    MMEm 10.413 20 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty...
    MMEm 10.430 17 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    SlHr 10.446 10 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    Thor 10.454 14 [Thoreau] had no talent for wealth...
    Thor 10.454 19 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    Thor 10.476 20 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain.
    HDC 11.40 9 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    HDC 11.82 11 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    War 11.173 9 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLC 11.182 6 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.185 8 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    JBB 11.271 1 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    JBS 11.280 11 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.
    Wom 11.423 22 ...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRO1 11.479 20 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the wealth of culture...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    CPL 11.498 10 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    FRep 11.512 17 Our modern wealth stands on a few staples...
    FRep 11.526 14 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
    FRep 11.541 17 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth;...
    PLT 12.28 19 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.
    PLT 12.29 10 ...[man] enters the world by one key. Herein is the wealth of each.
    Mem 12.98 24 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report...of no greater wealth of mind.
    CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!
    CL 12.153 23 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here!
    CW 12.176 25 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    Bost 12.187 15 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris; so that a fortune falls into the massive wealth of that city every day in the year.
    Bost 12.188 15 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
    Bost 12.197 19 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which makes the elegance of wealth look stupid...
    Bost 12.200 5 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    Bost 12.200 6 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth (always interesting, since from wealth power cannot be divorced) is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    Bost 12.205 26 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    Bost 12.209 13 [Boston] is very willing to be outrun in numbers, and in wealth;...
    Bost 12.209 17 You cannot conquer [Boston]...by counted millions of wealth.
    MAng1 12.217 1 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...
    MAng1 12.234 27 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.
    EurB 12.367 20 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    PPr 12.390 6 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;...
    PPr 12.390 16 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.

Wealth, n. (3)

    Comp 2.92 1 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine/...
    Wsp 6.201 3 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    II 12.81 21 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...

Wealth of Nations [Adam Sm (1)

    Bost 12.204 6 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no Wealth of Nations;...have we yet contributed.

wealth-bringer, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 6 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road...there is...a wealth-bringer...

wealth-maker, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 11 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the pride of art of the Saxon, as he is a wealth-maker, and his passion for independence.

wealth-makers, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 11 [These Saxons] are the wealth-makers...

wealthy, adj. (5)

    LT 1.273 7 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    ET4 5.71 13 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature...
    ET12 5.202 12 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    HDC 11.41 14 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges, and they seem to have fallen heavily on the few wealthy planters.
    HDC 11.63 1 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...

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