Weaned to Weevil
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
weaned, v. (1)
War 11.153 25 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned
the Scythians
and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil
way
of life.
weans, n. (1)
RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and
wife, of brothers and sisters...
weapon, n. (28)
Nat 1.35 27 That which was unconscious truth,
becomes...a new weapon in
the magazine of power.
LE 1.177 2 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of
language...only fitly
used as the weapon of thought and of justice,-learn to enjoy the pride
of
playing with this splendid engine...
PPh 4.59 13 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes,
at every turn, the
precise weapon he needs.
PPh 4.59 20 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory
of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use...
MoS 4.171 24 Every superior mind...will know how to
avail himself of the
checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the
exaggeration
and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
NMW 4.228 18 It is an advantage, within certain limits,
to have renounced
the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;
since
what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a
convenient weapon for our purposes;...
NMW 4.236 24 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles. He had
never enough. Each victory was a new weapon.
NMW 4.240 8 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the
millions whom he
directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
GoW 4.284 23 ...there is no weapon in the armory of
universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
ET4 5.59 1 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a
morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits
out of their horses' mouths
and crush each other's heads with them...
ET5 5.81 10 ...when [English] courts and parliament are
both deaf, the
plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from
year to
year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
Pow 6.59 24 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts
in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of
aplomb: the opponent has...in
every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
Ctr 6.150 23 [The man of the world] calls his
employment by its lowest
name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts,
and, if you do not belong
to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first
weapon
enrages the party attacked;...
Wsp 6.222 26 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to
exclude from the
privatest, highest, selectest.
Wsp 6.224 23 To every creature is his own weapon...
Elo1 7.64 8 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence]
assumed a Spartan
shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
Boks 7.214 1 ...what is the imagination? Only an arm or
weapon of the
interior energy;...
SA 8.95 16 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice,
fashion, are all asses with
loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king. There is
nothing
that does not pass into lever or weapon.
Comc 8.163 16 Plutarch happily expresses the value of
the jest as a
legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
PerF 10.85 8 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of
debate, and says, I will
know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
Schr 10.280 18 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the
weapon [of
talent]...
Thor 10.469 7 The other weapon with which [Thoreau]
conquered all
obstacles in science was patience.
War 11.169 15 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a
nation, we may be assured it will...be...one against which no weapon
can
prosper;...
ACiv 11.305 15 ...next winter we must begin at the
beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to
capture a regiment of rebels? But
one weapon we hold which is sure.
ACiv 11.309 4 ...this measure [emancipation], to be
effectual, must come
speedily. The weapon is slipping out of our hands.
Milt1 12.259 26 Among the advantages of his foreign
travel, Milton
certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and
polish that
great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power
of language.
Milt1 12.266 17 His firm grasp of this truth [of
Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.
weapon, v. (1)
Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed
of rock/ And, like
the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted
use/
To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
weaponed, adj. (1)
EdAd 11.384 4 ...the train...shows our traveller what
tens of thousands of
powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
weaponed, v. (7)
Tran 1.338 15 ...we have yet no man...who, working for
universal aims, found himself...clothed, sheltered, weaponed, he knew
not how...
NR 3.229 15 We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for
two elements...
NMW 4.257 6 Never was such a leader so endowed and so
weaponed [as
Napoleon];...
Wsp 6.235 6 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters
that have yet chanced, I
have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been
historically beaten;...
Elo1 7.81 22 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed
with a power of
speech, it seems first to become truly human...
Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men adorned and weaponed
with manlike arts...
FSLC 11.209 17 Nothing is impracticable to this nation,
which it shall set
itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed?
weapons, n. (26)
LT 1.261 5 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...
UGM 4.7 20 ...each legitimate idea makes its own
channels and welcome... weapons to fight with...
ET4 5.57 23 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have
weapons which they use
in a determined manner...
ET4 5.59 20 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in
battle, as long as he
can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their
weapons, to be taken out to sea...
ET5 5.87 6 [The English] adopt every improvement in
rig, in motor, in
weapons...
F 6.8 8 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the
grampus...are hints of
ferocity in the interiors of nature.
F 6.30 25 [The brave youth's] science is to make
weapons and wings of
these passions and retarding forces.
Ctr 6.141 11 ...I think it the part of good sense to
provide every fine soul
with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to
say, This
which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
Elo1 7.85 2 ...the splendid weapons which went to the
equipment of
Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
Elo1 7.91 4 If you arm the man with the extraordinary
weapons of this art [of oratory]...all these talents...have an equal
power to ensnare and mislead
the audience and the orator.
Elo1 7.99 24 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling
the Arabian warrior
of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat
used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
PI 8.50 2 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see
how wide they fly
for weapons...
PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle
blind or deaf, and their
weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.
Elo2 8.130 13 ...such practical chemistry as the
conversion of a truth
written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one
of
the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of
the
Divine Artificer.
Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though
unprovided of iron
weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they
carried...
Schr 10.278 25 [The scholar] is to forge out of
coarsest ores the sharpest
weapons.
Schr 10.278 26 [The scholar] is to forge out of
coarsest ores the sharpest
weapons. But if the weapons are valued for themselves...they cannot
serve
him.
Schr 10.283 26 The scholar...is unfurnished who has
only literary weapons.
Thor 10.467 15 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was
a whim which
grew on him by indulgence...
EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a
collection of
African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and
culture
of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
AsSu 11.247 16 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.
II 12.85 6 [The source of thought's] whole equipment is
new, and it can
only fight with its own weapons.
CL 12.148 19 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because
they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their
chariot; they
are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations.
ACri 12.283 8 An enumeration of the few principal
weapons of the poet or
writer will at once suggest their value.
ACri 12.293 21 Shakspeare might be studied for his
dexterity in the use of
these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
EurB 12.374 6 The eye and the word are certainly far
subtler and stronger
weapons than either money or knives.
wear, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.202 6 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough
in his constitution
to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time,
Want, Danger].
wear, v. (59)
Nat 1.38 14 Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool
to wear;...
DSA 1.131 10 ...even honesty and self-denial were but
splendid sins, if they
did not wear the Christian name.
MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and
fraud in a hundred
commodities.
MR 1.247 14 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink
nor wear nor touch
any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand
still.
YA 1.380 2 ...Government in our times is beginning to
wear a clumsy and
cumbrous appearance.
SR 2.51 9 If malice and vanity wear the coat of
philanthropy, shall that
pass?
SR 2.55 15 We come to wear one cut of face and
figure...
SR 2.63 3 Why all this deference to Alfred and
Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out
virtue?
Hsm1 2.255 25 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion,
success, and life at
so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by...the show
of
sorrow, but wear their own habitual greatness.
Hsm1 2.256 26 Simple hearts...would appear, could we
see the human race
assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though
to the
eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works
and
influences.
Pt1 3.36 11 ...the same man or society of men may wear
one aspect to
themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher
intelligences.
Exp 3.43 20 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I
saw them pass,/ In their
own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling,
never
mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these
are
thy race!/
Exp 3.79 22 Thus inevitably does the universe wear our
color...
Pol1 3.213 3 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. In these
decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these;
not in
what is...good to wear...
ET7 5.119 4 [The English] are not fond of ornaments,
and if they wear
them, they must be gems.
ET8 5.135 26 [The English] do not wear their heart in
their sleeve for daws
to peck at.
ET8 5.138 3 [The English] are...churlish as men
sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they
like with their own. With
education and intercourse, these asperities wear off...
ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first
deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice
as people who wear
well...
ET9 5.152 18 Strange...that broad America must wear the
name of a thief.
ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too
old and too proud
to wear titles...
ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the
token of the glebe that
gave them birth...
ET11 5.180 14 A susceptible man could not wear a name
which
represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without
hearing
in it a challenge to duty and honor.
ET11 5.186 27 [The English] wear the laws as
ornaments...
ET11 5.196 24 This is the charter, or the chartism,
which fogs and seas and
rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown.
ET14 5.247 7 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly
teaches that good means
good to eat, good to wear...
Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had
persuaded beauties and
men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
Ctr 6.151 26 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/
For you 'll find it
certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look
through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the
Humble,-- To me men are for what they are,/ They wear no masks with
me./
Wsp 6.234 1 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall
wear/ On their heads
the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
Ill 6.324 1 ...we transcend the circumstance
continually and taste the real
quality of existence; as...in our thoughts, which wear no silks and
taste no
ice-creams.
SS 7.5 9 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such
great terror of being
shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there
to
wear out ages in solitude...
DL 7.108 19 We are sure that the sacred form of man is
not seen in these
whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks (masks which we wear and which we
meet)...
DL 7.123 13 The innocent Venelas alone could wear [the
magic mantle].
Farm 7.142 21 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal
proportions;...and it
takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never
sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires, never wear out...
Farm 7.143 27 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear...
WD 7.168 20 We wear [a holiday's] cockade and favors in
our humor.
Suc 7.282 10 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be
it health or be it
sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or
lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
PI 8.5 19 ...we see that things wear different names
and faces, but belong to
one family;...
PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of
rhyme]...in a funeral
procession, where all wear black...
SA 8.89 8 Welfare requires one or two companions of
intelligence, probity
and grace, to wear out life with...
Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and tires
[of the earth], never
wear out...
QO 8.175 4 All things wear a lustre which is the gift
of the present, and a
tarnish of time.
PPo 8.251 11 In general what is more tedious than
dedications or
panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip
them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier
forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
Insp 8.268 11 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening
behind me for my
wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than
forward
it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/
Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God
hath
writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Imtl 8.338 17 I do not wish to live to wear out my
boots.
Aris 10.53 12 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat
out at elbows...if he
will.
Chr2 10.110 22 ...what Christ meant and willed is in
essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their
opponents, who only wear and
misrepresent the name of Christ.
Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses
or resurrection
robes for a working jacket...
Schr 10.274 10 Men of thought fail in fighting down
malignity, because
they wear other armor than their own.
EzRy 10.391 4 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra
Ripley's] beneficiaries
did not wear out his compassion;...
MMEm 10.424 22 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who
stretched thy
warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or
feel
he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,-
labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in
brighter soils;...
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...
ACiv 11.309 26 It is the maxim of natural philosophers
that the natural
forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful
fields [of the Civil
War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
But those also who went through the same fields, and returned
alive...in
other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they
lived.
PLT 12.57 16 The men we know, poets, wits, writers,
deal with their
thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear.
II 12.85 12 I think the reason why men fail in their
conflicts is because they
wear other armor than their own.
CL 12.143 1 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are
not under any
circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's
toil in
walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and
spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the
officers and pets of the party, who wear the honors...
ACri 12.302 7 Shakspeare says, A plague of opinion; a
man can wear it on
both sides, like a leather jerkin.
Trag 12.413 11 A man should try Time, and his face
should wear the
expression of a just judge...
wearer, n. (3)
Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a
crown once worn
cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
Dem1 10.5 12 The very landscape and scenery in a dream
seem...like a coat
or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
Dem1 10.20 21 ...the fabled ring of Gyges, making the
wearer invisible...is
simply mischievous.
wearied, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.414 21 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out
this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...
wearied, v. (4)
Hsm1. 2.252 7 ...[heroism] is...of a fortitude not to be
wearied out.
UGM 4.14 8 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know
that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of
Hampden, who was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out or
wearied by the
most laborious...of Falkland...
SwM 4.126 2 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in
good works seem
to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They
replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his
audience with the
pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
wearies, v. (3)
Aris 10.58 24 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and
ensign of a
sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...wearies out
opposition...
Carl 10.494 3 Mere intellectual partisanship wearies
[Carlyle];...
PPr 12.386 4 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the
tone wearies whilst it
stimulates.
weariness, n. (12)
AmS 1.99 5 ...when...books are a weariness, - [the
artist] has always the
resource to live.
PNR 4.86 18 [Plato] put in all the past, without
weariness...
SwM 4.138 7 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which
is not for our
bondage;...all other duty is good only unto weariness.
Bty 6.300 3 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced
to suffer some
intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of
ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness
the danger and
vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary
exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the
lettered backs [of books], we
leave the shop with a sigh...
Schr 10.281 4 We have seen to weariness what you
[idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the
practical man...
Schr 10.286 8 The scholar must be ready for...poverty,
insult, weariness...
MMEm 10.425 2 When the dreamy pages of life seem all
turned and
folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the
hour
with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
CPL 11.506 24 With [books] many of us spend the most of
our life...these
tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their
moonlight
illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
Bost 12.191 8 ...the weariness of the sea, the
shrinking from cold weather
and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
MLit 12.333 11 When one of these grand monads is
incarnated whom
Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think
that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily
life will
now end...
wearing, v. (6)
ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that
a lady in the reign
of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of
false
stones...
OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo,
wearing the four
crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
Comc 8.171 6 ...among the women in the street, you
shall see one...wearing
withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock...are a
solid people, wearing
good hats and shoes...
MMEm 10.410 4 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody
Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so
conversed with her
for a time.
HDC 11.33 11 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain,
yet not so plain but
that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their
stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
wearisome, adj. (6)
Int 2.339 11 How wearisome the grammarian...whose
balance is lost by the
exaggeration of a single topic.
Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the
man...he does not yet
know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the
monotony of his thought.
Supl 10.164 24 'T is very wearisome, this straining
talk...
Supl 10.172 1 '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...
CSC 10.376 1 There was a great deal of wearisome
speaking in each of
those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
War 11.167 8 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into
the region of
holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and
charity;...
wears, v. (18)
Nat 1.8 1 Nature never wears a mean appearance.
Nat 1.11 12 Nature always wears the colors of the
spirit.
Nat 1.44 5 The granite is differenced in its laws only
by the more or less of
heat from the river that wears it away.
Con 1.314 9 Under the richest robes...the strong heart
will beat...with the
desire to achieve its own fate and make every ornament it wears
authentic
and real.
Lov1 2.186 14 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of
permutation and
combination of all possible positions of the parties...
Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of
prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
Exp 3.52 13 Men resist the conclusion in the morning,
but adopt it as the
evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place
and
condition...
Exp 3.84 12 Life wears to me a visionary face.
Chr1 3.99 11 The face which character wears to me is
self-sufficingness.
PPh 4.59 14 ...the rich man wears no more
garments...than the poor...
ET5 5.84 16 The Englishman wears a sensible coat
buttoned to the chin...
ET6 5.105 11 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl,
or a saddle, or
stands on his head, and no remark is made.
Wth 6.95 17 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who
wears a shoe, as
if the whole earth were covered with leather.
Ctr 6.155 5 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and
outgrown coat, that
he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some
purpose.
OA 7.316 14 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of
time], and adds dim
sight...short memory and sleep. These also are masks, and all is not
Age
that wears them.
HDC 11.83 27 For the most part, the town [Concord] has
deserved the
name it wears.
PLT 12.36 9 [Pan] wears a coat of leopard spots or
stars.
CInt 12.129 20 Is it so important whether a man wears a
shoe-buckle or
ties his shoe-lappet with a string?
weary, adj. (26)
Nat 1.40 9 Man is never weary of working [nature] up.
Nat 1.43 9 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same
entity in the tedious
variety of forms.
Nat 1.58 24 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary
weed, in which God
dresses the soul which he has called into time.
MR 1.254 10 Love would put a new face on this weary old
world in which
we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
Con 1.296 7 Saturn grew weary of sitting alone...
Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale,
weary work and to
commence/ A newer and a better..../
Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter
landscape than the
horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of
nature, but a
still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk
left out...
Art1 2.367 13 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores,
and fly to
voluptuous reveries.
Pt1 3.23 17 ...when the soul of the poet has come to
ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems
or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not
exposed to the accidents of the
weary kingdom of time;...
NER 3.273 26 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through
the world...
Cour 7.256 17 How short a time since this whole nation
rose every
morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers
in the
field, and was never weary of the theme!
PI 8.72 23 A little more or less skill in whistling is
of no account. See those
weary pentameter tales of Dryden and others.
SA 8.97 23 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some
weary, captious
paradox to fight you with...
Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
PPo 8.255 12 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in
the sky-vault's
cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
PPo 8.263 23 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird
Conversations], the
birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
MMEm 10.418 7 Weary at times of objects so tedious to
hear and see.
MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted to
join me [Mary
Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins
self-denial.
MMEm 10.424 13 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are
prolific numbers of
the same sad hour...
MMEm 10.427 23 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely
now, not
whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the
atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
II 12.70 22 ...genius is as weary of [Inspiration's]
personality as others are...
MAng1 12.228 10 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he
often slept in his
clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he
was too
weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go
immediately to work.
MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace
the frail and weary
weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
Milt1 12.265 2 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the
suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird
that
first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till the
attention be
weary...
Pray 12.352 7 ...soon I am weary of spending my time
causelessly and
unimproved...
Pray 12.352 12 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always
delight to commune
with thee in my lone and silent heart; I am never full of thee; I am
never
weary of thee;...
weary, v. (2)
MoS 4.156 21 [The skeptic says] I weary of these
dogmatizers.
MMEm 10.414 25 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out
this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I
weary
of my pilgrimage...
weather, n. (28)
Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political
action has no better
aim; to keep out wind and weather...
Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of
the weather, but still
we regard the clouds and the rain.
Art1 2.360 14 ...that house and weather and manner of
living which
poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so
dear...will
serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which
pours
itself indifferently through all.
Nat2 3.169 14 These halcyons may be looked for with a
little more
assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name
of the Indian summer.
MoS 4.167 10 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I like gray
days, and autumn
and winter weather.
MoS 4.175 24 Our life is March weather...
NMW 4.248 21 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most
unfavorable
season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm, the
weather settled...
ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to
provide some piece of
liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and
taverns steal from the best economist.
ET5 5.77 8 Nobody landed on this spellbound island
[England] with
impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather
transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
ET16 5.273 20 The fine weather and my friend's
[Carlyle's] local
knowledge of Hampshire...made the way short.
Ctr 6.150 24 [The man of the world's] conversation
clings to the weather
and the news...
Wsp 6.213 3 You say there is no religion now. 'T is
like saying in rainy
weather, There is no sun...
Civ 7.21 19 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the
horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his
chief
enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals,
from
frost, sun-stroke and weather;...
Farm 7.138 23 [The farmer] bends to the order of the
seasons, the weather, the soils and crops...
Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing,
yachting, hunting or
planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...bad weather...
SA 8.95 4 ...[the party in the second coach]
had...breathed a purer air: such
a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and
Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight.
The
intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice
of
weather or rough roads.
Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome
one day with a
party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused
to
take off his coat...
Supl 10.169 25 The common people diminish: a cold snap;
it rains easy; good haying weather.
Schr 10.286 7 The scholar must be ready for bad
weather...
LLNE 10.356 7 Since the foxes and the birds have the
right of it, with a
warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend
the
sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and
thoughts...
EzRy 10.386 9 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...for good
weather;...are well
remembered...
EzRy 10.392 23 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear
of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their
wives in this cold weather.
EzRy 10.393 5 [Ezra Ripley]...knew the weather like a
sea-captain.
MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with
careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] spirits...
CL 12.139 23 ...among our many prognostics of the
weather, the only
trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that
it is
going to be cold.
Bost 12.191 9 ...the weariness of the sea, the
shrinking from cold weather
and the pangs of hunger must justify [the Plymouth colonists].
weather-beaten, adj. (1)
ET17 5.296 9 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a
weather-beaten
face...
weathercock, n. (2)
SL 2.162 25 One piece of the tree is cut for a
weathercock and one for the
sleeper of a bridge; the virtue of the wood is apparent in both.
FRep 11.514 7 In our popular politics you may note that
each aspirant who
rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying
the
vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
weathered, v. (1)
OA 7.323 9 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and
shoals in the sea
whereon we sail...
weathering, v. (1)
Cir 2.302 26 You admire this tower of granite,
weathering the hurts of so
many ages.
weathers, n. (5)
Exp 3.67 8 In the street and in the newspapers, life
appears so plain a
business that manly resolution and adherence to the
multiplication-table
through all weathers will insure success.
Pow 6.60 13 A good tree that agrees with the soil will
grow...in all
weathers and all treatments.
WD 7.169 20 ...in the common experience of the scholar,
the weathers fit
his moods.
SovE 10.191 27 The student discovers one day that he
lives in
enchantment: the house, the works, the persons, the days, the
weathers-all
that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his
mind is
active are visions merely...
SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong,
unaffected interest in farms, and crops, and weathers...
weather-tossed, adj. (1)
LT 1.288 6 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows!
There is no one to
tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...
weather-worn, adj. (1)
AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses
me with
respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and
reverable in
his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...
weave, v. (17)
Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty web
we weave will at last
be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
Fdsp 2.194 11 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me
this joy [of
friendship] several times, and thus we weave social threads of our
own...
Fdsp 2.198 25 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains
[of friendship] are... not for life. They are not to be indulged. This
is to weave cobweb, and not
cloth.
OS 2.297 8 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of
shreds and
patches...
SwM 4.131 12 ...a bird does not more readily weave its
nest...than this seer
of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every
new
crew of offenders.
ET5 5.79 16 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains.
ET10 5.157 6 The headlong bias to utility [in
England]...if possible will
teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton
mills weave carpet and
Sheffield grinds steel.
Pow 6.81 9 Success has no more eccentricity than the
gingham and muslin
we weave in our mills.
Pow 6.82 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do
you expect to
swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a
shoestring;...
Ill 6.321 11 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all
humility and as well as we
can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some
galaxy
which we braided...
WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now
in our social
arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and
excavate better [than our fathers did].
Aris 10.35 26 If a few grand natures should come to us
and weave duties
and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
Chr2 10.98 12 How can [a man] exist to weave relations
of joy and virtue
with other souls...
War 11.157 10 ...learning and art, and especially
religion weave ties that
make war look like fratricide, as it is.
PLT 12.29 2 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the
wheel and weave
carpets and broadcloth.
weaver, n. (7)
MN 1.192 27 The weaver should not be bereaved of his
superiority to his
work...
Wth 6.108 7 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter,
priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the
year.
SS 7.11 8 [The scholar's] products are as needful as
those of the baker or
the weaver.
WD 7.164 14 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a
machine.
PI 8.41 20 The weaver sees gingham;...
Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/
They had no more
but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/
Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The
Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an
old
weaver that was bedrid./
MLit 12.331 11 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the
country;...
weavers, n. (4)
Tran 1.358 13 ...in society, besides farmers, sailors,
and weavers, there
must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters
of
character;...
YA 1.392 26 Would [our youths and maidens]
like...threatening, starved
weavers...
PPh 4.53 5 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless
subdivision of
classes,--the doom of the pin-makers, the doom of the weavers...
NMW 4.232 26 The weavers strike for bread, and the king
and his
ministers...meet them with bayonets.
weaver's, n. (1)
Thor 10.462 8 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like
that which Rose
Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed],
commends in her father...
weaves, v. (6)
ET5 5.95 27 [Steam] weaves, forges, saws, pounds,
fans...
F 6.10 19 You may as well ask a loom which weaves
huckabuck why it
does not make cashmere...
WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on
which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
WD 7.182 4 Shakspeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves
its nest.
Suc 7.309 1 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...then
veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
... She
weaves her tissues and integuments of flesh and skin and hair and
beautiful
colors of the day over it...
CPL 11.501 18 [Literature] is thought to be the
harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the
multitude. To
these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but
what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
weaving, n. (2)
ET10 5.169 26 A part of the money earned [in England]
returns to the brain
to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists
with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by
hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and
other charities
and amenities.
Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related
texture have taught Man...weaving, joining, masonry...
weaving, v. (5)
ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which consists
in weaving, like a
spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
Art2 7.39 26 The useful arts comprehend not only those
that lie next to
instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving, etc., but also navigation,
practical chemistry...
DL 7.121 17 The angels that dwell with [the eager,
blushing boys] and are
weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want...
Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on
hand-looms costly
stuffs from silk and wool...
Schr 10.285 14 ...Genius has no taste for weaving
sand...
web, n. (36)
AmS 1.85 7 There is never a beginning, there is never an
end, to the
inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty
web we weave will at last
be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
YA 1.364 4 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot
every day across the
thousand various threads of national descent and employment, and bind
them fast in one web...
SR 2.58 21 The swallow over my window should interweave
that thread or
straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
Lov1 2.185 23 The union which is thus effected [by
love] and which adds a
new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread
throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a
temporary
state.
Fdsp 2.194 12 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me
this joy [of
friendship] several times, and thus we weave...a new web of
relations;...
Fdsp 2.199 4 The laws of friendship are...of one web
with the laws of
nature and of morals.
OS 2.274 13 ...the web of events is the flowing robe in
which [the soul] is
clothed.
Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or
reflections, disentangled from the
web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
Int 2.336 15 In common hours we have the same facts as
in the uncommon
or inspired, but...they are not detached, but lie in a web.
Pt1 3.19 7 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and
the railway] fall within
the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical
web.
Exp 3.51 7 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is too
finely woven...
ShP 4.189 3 If we require the originality which
consists in weaving, like a
spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
ET10 5.158 17 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very
properly has, for a
frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny, which wove the web of
his
fortunes.
F 6.37 3 The web of relation is shown in habitat...
F 6.46 18 Wonderful intricacy in the web...this
vagabond life admits.
Pow 6.81 25 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a
shred spoils the web
through a piece of a hundred yards...
Pow 6.82 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do
you expect to
swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
Pow 6.82 11 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any
muslin...and you
shall not...fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more
inflexible
shaft, will not testify in the web.
Wsp 6.203 4 Men as naturally make a state, or a church,
as caterpillars a
web.
Wsp 6.221 1 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and
connection are not
somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...method, and an
even web;...
WD 7.164 15 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a
machine.
WD 7.170 19 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if
every god brought a
thread to the skyey web.
WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on
which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
WD 7.173 20 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of
the web of the
master juggler...
Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of
cottage and fireside
populous, important...
PI 8.2 5 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The
Muse can knit/ What is
past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
PI 8.26 10 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to
the imagination, we feel
that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who
are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it
entangles...
PPo 8.262 17 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never
hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors
did
run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast
web of being touches
me.
LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large
Ptolemaic web of cycle
and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
MMEm 10.397 8 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If
He should
make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's
content
would find it right./
MMEm 10.424 17 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who
stretched thy
warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or
feel
he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,-
labors, rather...
ALin 11.336 19 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
PLT 12.42 23 The highest measure of poetic power is
such insight and
faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent
the
whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
webs, n. (4)
Wth 6.89 24 ...the webs of his loom;...are [man's]
natural playmates...
Schr 10.282 5 ...a true orator will make us feel that
the states and
kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and
caterpillars...
MMEm 10.424 5 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no
fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none
of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.
AKan 11.263 4 ...now, vast property...webs of party,
cover the land with a
network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
Webster, Daniel, n. (40)
NR 3.230 14 Webster cannot do the work of Webster.
UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of
friendship]...falls that
homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus
and
Gracchus down to...Webster...
ShP 4.199 4 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so
Locke and
Rousseau think, for thousands;...
Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's
Mexican war
were...those who from political position could afford it; not Webster,
but
Benton and Calhoun.
Ctr 6.135 21 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor
Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
PI 8.25 27 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and
be taught by Otis, Webster...what great hearts they have...
Elo2 8.117 19 As soon as a man shows rare power of
expression, like
Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great
interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the
bar or in the Senate
filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear cited as
Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could
defer till to-morrow;...
PC 8.219 24 Everett dreamed of Webster.
Grts 8.318 18 A great style of hero draws equally...all
the extremes of
society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such
examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
SlHr 10.447 23 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration
was commanded by
certain heroes of the [legal] profession, like...Mr. Mason and Mr.
Webster.
Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value
quite as well as
Webster...
FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that
immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray
of a child's squirt against a
granite wall.
FSLC 11.193 25 Mr. Webster tells the President that he
has been in the
North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is
opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
FSLC 11.199 19 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this
sort of solar
microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition
less.
FSLC 11.201 15 The fairest American fame ends in this
filthy [Fugitive
Slave] law. Mr. Webster cannot choose but regret his law.
FSLC 11.202 14 I have as much charity for Mr. Webster,
I think, as any
one has.
FSLC 11.203 21 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following
the laws of his
blood and constitution.
FSLC 11.203 24 Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his
memory...
FSLN 11.219 5 ...I never felt the check on my free
speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his
personal influence, brought the
Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FSLN 11.219 7 I say Mr. Webster, for though the
[Fugitive Slave] Bill was
not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
FSLN 11.220 17 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I
do not confound
him with vulgar politicians before or since.
FSLN 11.221 2 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of
aspect and
carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
FSLN 11.221 18 I remember [Webster's] appearance at
Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster.
FSLN 11.221 26 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill]
was a place for
behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked through his part
with entire success.
FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster,
most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.224 21 It is remarked of Americans...that they
think they praise a
man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
Whether the defect be national or not, it is the defect and calamity of
Mr. Webster...
FSLN 11.225 9 Nobody doubts that Daniel Webster could
make a good
speech.
FSLN 11.226 7 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery...
FSLN 11.227 17 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
FSLN 11.227 20 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a
totally
different course from Mr. Webster.
FSLN 11.227 25 ...the decision of Webster [for the
Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to
freedom and good morals.
FSLN 11.228 4 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the
[Fugitive Slave] law
was sharply called treason...
FSLN 11.233 25 ...now you relied on these dismal
guaranties infamously
made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is
found
that they have crumbled.
FSLN 11.240 13 ...all the statesmen, Guizot,
Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty
with their words, and
crushing it with their votes.
AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in
Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends
came
forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be
thought
of;...
AsSu 11.250 26 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands
charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must
be
true in Sumner's case, as it was true of Webster...
PLT 12.48 27 Webster naturally and always grasps...
Mem 12.97 25 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, like...Webster or Richard Owen, and a heavy man who
witnesses the same facts...
Mem 12.98 3 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.
Webster, John, n. (1)
ShP 4.192 14 The best proof of [the Elizabethan
theatre's] vitality is the
crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow,
Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele,
Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
Webster's, Daniel, n. (11)
QO 8.183 11 Thirty years ago...you might often hear
cited as Mr. Webster'
s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till
to-morrow;...
QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember hearing
other pieces of
Mr. Webster's advice to students...
SlHr 10.447 28 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr.
Webster's
ability...
SlHr 10.448 1 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr.
Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's
political course in his
later years.
FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal
Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's
treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great
action of his life.
FSLC 11.198 22 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive
Slave Law] was, he
told us, final.
FSLC 11.202 6 [Webster] must learn...that he who was
their pride in the
woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they
have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs
can
drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.
FSLC 11.205 8 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American
Union was a
huge Prince Rupert's drop...
FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes
that it was his wish
to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
AsSu 11.248 3 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in
Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends
came
forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be
thought
of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole
country...
FRep 11.528 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the
American Union was a
huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the
smallest end be shivered off.
Websters, n. (1)
F 6.13 23 ...strong natures...Websters...are inevitable
patriots...
wed, v. (1)
Wsp 6.206 13 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair
and gent,/ But
she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to
fere
and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed
heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./
wedded, v. (1)
NER 3.271 11 ...we are not so wedded to our paltry
performances of every
kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his
performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should
do;...
wedding, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.192 7 We watched sympathetically [in earlier
novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the
wedding day is fixed...
wedding, n. (2)
Chr2 10.106 25 Calvinism was one and the same thing in
Geneva, in
Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a
sermon; if a funeral, then a sermon;...
SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some
exceptional and
ceremonial occasion, on a wedding or a baptism...
wedge, n. (2)
MN 1.196 18 The wedge turns out to be a rocket.
PC 8.224 3 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more
astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a
manageable rod or
wedge...
wedges, n. (1)
Wth 6.92 23 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to
disgust,--a paltry
matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it
an
aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
Wedgwood, Josiah, n. (2)
ET5 5.77 2 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the
names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts
of Britain...
FRep 11.511 16 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely
took the sculptor
Flaxman to counsel...
Wednesday, n. (1)
WD 7.179 21 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday.
weds, v. (1)
PPo 8.246 2 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who
weds her for
dowry must pay his soul./
weed, n. (8)
Nat 1.58 24 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary
weed, in which God
dresses the soul which he has called into time.
SL 2.131 9 The river-bank, the weed at the
water-side...have a grace in the
past.
Cir 2.307 3 ...I am a weed by the wall.
Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of permanence
must follow in a
healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so
transcendently
skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find
out...the
delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it
all
forever hidden!
FRep 11.512 23 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been
discovered...
PLT 12.43 13 There are times when...a weed...is more
suggestive to the
mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
PLT 12.55 16 To science there is no poison; to botany
no weed; to
chemistry no dirt.
MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace
the frail and weary
weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
weed, v. (1)
SR 2.77 27 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his
field to weed it, the
prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true
prayers...
weeding, v. (2)
Farm 7.142 11 In English factories, the boy that watches
the loom...is
called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...
bringing now the day of planting, then of watering, then of weeding,
then of
reaping, then of curing and storing,--the farmer is the minder.
ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain
chosen houses, weeding out
single offenders or offending families...
weeds, n. (13)
Nat 1.42 5 ...weeds and plants...[a farm] is a sacred
emblem...
MR 1.238 10 Every species of property is preyed on by
its own enemies, as...a planted field by weeds...
Hsm1 2.249 23 Let [a man] hear in season...that the
commonwealth and his
own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of
peace...
NER 3.249 6 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty
for his sinful
weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
ET12 5.207 6 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and
Cam...the atmosphere
is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain
height, and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water
kills.
Wth 6.107 26 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick,
I shall send for
you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for
he
knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has
refreshed some weeds
of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
Bty 6.281 9 ...what does the botanist know of the
virtues of his weeds?
Edc1 10.137 10 ...jealous provision seems to have been
made in [the new
man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with
the
worn weeds of your language and opinions.
Thor 10.468 10 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the
weeds to the
imported plants...
Thor 10.468 13 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which
have been hoed at
by a million farmers...and yet have prevailed...
FRep 11.512 23 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some
two hundred
thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are
reckoned
weeds.
ACri 12.281 4 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple
words succeeds,/ For
still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
week, n. (31)
Nat 1.18 20 The state of the crop in the surrounding
farms alters the
expression of the earth from week to week.
Con 1.320 10 [Conservatism's] social and political
action has no better
aim;...to bring the week and year about...
Fdsp 2.215 18 ...next week I shall have languid
moods...
Exp 3.85 23 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and
these things...are
forgotten next week;...
MoS 4.176 18 I like not the French celerity,--a new
Church and State once
a week.
ShP 4.192 27 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the
Tale of Troy, which
the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...
ET2 5.28 15 In one week [the ship] has made 1467
miles...
ET4 5.58 9 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in
some of our
country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered, a week here, a
week
there, and a fortnight on the next farm...
ET17 5.296 24 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the
story of Walter
Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
F 6.18 26 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a
week;...
Pow 6.72 24 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the
Pope's gardens behind
the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed
them
with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at
last
suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away, week after
week...the
sibyls and prophets.
Wth 6.107 27 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick,
I shall send for
you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for
he
knows that...the vines must be planted, next week...
Bty 6.297 1 ...the citizens of her native city of
Toulouse obtained the aid of
the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly
on
the balcony at least twice a week...
Elo1 7.77 16 The newspapers, every week, report the
adventures of some
impudent swindler...
DL 7.132 24 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the
desecration of
the entire week?
WD 7.181 3 I remember well the foreign scholar who made
a week of my
youth happy by his visit.
Insp 8.284 3 A day to [Mirabeau] was of more value than
a week or a
month to others.
Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the
poor children found
seven sabbaths in a week.
Edc1 10.139 11 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and
behavior a week
before you open your mouth...
LLNE 10.328 2 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a
constitution once a week.
MMEm 10.411 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights.
MMEm 10.428 4 The sickness of the last week was fine
medicine;...
Carl 10.496 17 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's]
heroes,-who
proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...at a penny
a
week;...
GSt 10.501 10 ...the painful surprise which the last
week brought us, in the
tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the
just
consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this
assembly
mourns.
AKan 11.263 11 ...I think the towns should hold town
meetings, and
resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent
sessions, adjourning from week to week...
ACiv 11.305 21 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay
for such slaves as
we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us;
those
in the interior will know in a week what their rights are...
ACiv 11.308 11 A week before the two captive
commissioners were
surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
Mem 12.102 17 ...I would rather have a perfect
recollection of all I have
thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the
books
that have been published in a century.
Mem 12.107 14 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is
best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give
extension
to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the
next...
Bost 12.196 2 The universality of an elementary
education in New England
is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds
the
village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read
and
debates sustained...
Let 12.398 22 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe;...
weekly, adj. (5)
Prch 10.228 25 What sort of respect can these preachers
or newspapers
inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that
they
would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter,
provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
Prch 10.230 20 The existence of the Sunday, and the
pulpit waiting for a
weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou
sto
he wants.
EzRy 10.389 15 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the
columns of his
weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the
Middlesex
Yeoman.
SMC 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or
weekly newspaper...
CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some
available
plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
weeks, n. (16)
Mrs1 3.136 18 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which
he has lodged
for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a
perpetual sign...
Mrs1 3.151 9 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these
influences, for days, for weeks...
NR 3.247 14 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few
weeks be coldly set aside...
NMW 4.239 1 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave
all letters
unopened for three weeks...
Ctr 6.143 7 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with
whist and chess;...
SS 7.3 16 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness
engaged my attention, and in the weeks that followed we became better
acquainted.
Elo1 7.81 6 Does [any one] think that not possibly a
man may come to him
who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for
example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to...give days and
weeks to
a new interest?
MoL 10.248 5 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.
Weeks, months
pass-a new harvest;...
Thor 10.474 2 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot
Indians would visit
Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the
river-bank.
Thor 10.474 9 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had
great satisfaction
from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown, who was his guide
for
some weeks.
FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive
Slave] law, as was
inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the
glib
officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing
men.
FSLC 11.197 10 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And
the Boston Advertiser, and
the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of
Massachusetts.
SMC 11.372 22 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the
officers
were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes, for
the
first time in five weeks.
Mem 12.98 21 The facts of the last two or three days or
weeks are all you
have with you...
CL 12.140 8 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of
Calcutta...
Bost 12.199 3 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a
protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the
partakers
to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
week's, n. [weeks',] (2)
FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's
work to dig
away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of
the world.
CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description
of Wordsworth a
little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention.
...if
young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be
wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise,
I
fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the
better.
weep, v. (14)
LE 1.176 11 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge...
SR 2.78 14 We come to them who weep foolishly...
Comp 2.126 1 ...we sit and weep in vain.
PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and
weep, write verses
and walk alone...
PI 8.25 26 [People] like to go to the theatre and be
made to weep;...
Comc 8.156 2 And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ 't is
that I may not weep./ Byron.
Comc 8.172 11 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found
his face quite
too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to
weep;...
Comc 8.172 17 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased
not, but began
now first to weep amain...
Comc 8.173 1 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast
only seen thy face
once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast
wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If
we weep
not, who should weep?
Comc 8.173 2 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast
only seen thy face
once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast
wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If
we weep
not, who should weep?
Aris 10.54 8 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh,
and weep, in their
eloquent closets...
GSt 10.507 10 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there
is
not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at
the
loss of its founder;...
PLT 12.45 5 Artist natures do not weep.
MAng1 12.242 16 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]
that a man ought
not to smile, when all those around him weep;...
weepest, v. (1)
Comc 8.172 23 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have
looked in the
mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am
Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept. But, thou, why
weepest thou without ceasing?
weeping, adj. (3)
LT 1.290 1 I read [the Moral Sentiment] in glad and in
weeping eyes;...
ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The
weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious
loads are borne,/ And
realms commanded which those trees adorn./
EWI 11.114 24 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
weeping, v. (1)
Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping...
weevil, n. (1)
CbW 6.254 16 The frost which kills the harvest of a year
saves the harvests
of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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