Wise (continued) to Wist

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

    Nat2 3.187 26 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    Pol1 3.197 5 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
    Pol1 3.207 17 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form...
    Pol1 3.213 13 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    Pol1 3.213 13 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature...
    Pol1 3.215 26 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...the appearance of the wise man;...
    Pol1 3.216 6 To educate the wise man the State exists...
    Pol1 3.216 7 ...with the appearance of the wise man the State expires.
    Pol1 3.216 9 The wise man is the State.
    Pol1 3.220 13 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be answered.
    NR 3.231 25 How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of nations are largely detailed...
    NER 3.269 10 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.280 12 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 3.285 17 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    UGM 4.6 18 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
    UGM 4.18 23 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
    UGM 4.25 9 We are all wise in capacity...
    UGM 4.25 11 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    UGM 4.26 9 ...it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions.
    PPh 4.56 27 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.66 21 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
    PPh 4.66 24 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him; but, simply, whilst they were with him they grew wise, not because of him;...
    SwM 4.112 19 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    SwM 4.124 16 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    SwM 4.131 7 [Swedenborg] is wise, but wise in his own despite.
    SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    SwM 4.143 2 Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
    SwM 4.143 5 Swedenborg is disagreeably wise...
    MoS 4.157 14 Who shall forbid a wise skepticism...
    MoS 4.161 5 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
    MoS 4.161 24 Some wise limitation...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    MoS 4.172 14 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen;...
    ShP 4.197 2 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet];...
    ShP 4.211 2 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare and his book of life.
    ShP 4.211 26 [Shakespeare] is inconceivably wise;...
    ShP 4.213 2 [Shakespeare] is wise without emphasis or assertion;...
    ShP 4.218 21 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.228 27 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops, and a very consistent and wise master-workman.
    NMW 4.236 27 [Napoleon] felt, with every wise man, that as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
    GoW 4.274 23 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did...
    GoW 4.283 15 ...[Goethe] is very wise...
    ET1 5.13 22 ...[Coleridge] compared one island [Malta] with the other [Sicily]...Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to anything good and wise.
    ET3 5.35 16 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
    ET4 5.53 24 Only a hardy and wise people could have made this small territory [England] great.
    ET4 5.58 17 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with...wise speech...
    ET8 5.134 13 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...wise minority, as well as foolish majority;...
    ET8 5.143 6 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.
    ET10 5.160 25 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    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 7 At present [England] does not rule her wealth. She is simply a good England, but no divinity, or wise and instructed soul.
    ET11 5.195 27 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET13 5.226 4 The wise legislator will spend on temples, schools, libraries, colleges...
    ET14 5.244 26 Hume's abstractions are not deep or wise.
    ET14 5.246 7 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius. It is wise and rich, but it lives on its capital.
    ET15 5.272 17 ...no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    ET16 5.282 25 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    ET19 5.312 26 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    ET19 5.313 22 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    F 6.5 23 Wise men feel that there is something which cannot be talked or voted away...
    Pow 6.53 24 A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works...
    Wth 6.84 5 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    Wth 6.86 1 ...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to where they are wanted; in wise combining;...
    Wth 6.92 1 ...wise men are not wise at all hours...
    Wth 6.92 2 ...wise men are not wise at all hours...
    Wth 6.114 19 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should be wise in season and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days...
    Wth 6.123 11 Use has made the farmer wise...
    Ctr 6.138 18 ...instead of a healthy man, merry and wise, [your man of genius] is some mad dominie.
    Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters.
    Ctr 6.156 15 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Ctr 6.161 10 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bhr 6.177 5 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.182 5 Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you show all your faults.
    Bhr 6.185 27 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    Wsp 6.212 10 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.226 12 There was never a man born so wise or good but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty and report it.
    Wsp 6.227 19 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri...
    Wsp 6.229 5 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.
    Wsp 6.239 27 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them?
    CbW 6.252 26 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times, like Socrates, with his famous irony;...
    CbW 6.259 22 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    CbW 6.260 20 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. ... But the wise gods say, No, we have better things for thee.
    CbW 6.261 1 ...he who is to be wise for many must not be protected.
    CbW 6.261 17 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    CbW 6.264 5 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    CbW 6.265 7 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    CbW 6.267 12 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
    CbW 6.269 12 ...when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    CbW 6.269 13 ...when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Bty 6.284 9 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies, seem to make wise...
    Bty 6.285 16 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.
    Bty 6.291 12 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye.
    Civ 7.31 1 ...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.
    Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
    Elo1 7.72 1 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...
    Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels.
    Elo1 7.72 5 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
    Elo1 7.72 17 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    Elo1 7.84 22 ...by making [the people] wise in that which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every moment.
    DL 7.107 22 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.113 13 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise...
    DL 7.114 24 The wise man angles with himself only...
    WD 7.183 9 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic.
    WD 7.185 9 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    Boks 7.192 18 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.195 16 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time...
    Clbs 7.229 14 [The student] seeks intelligent persons, whether more wise or less wise than he, who will give him provocation...
    Clbs 7.230 26 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.
    Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers...
    Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words.
    Clbs 7.250 4 There is no permanently wise man...
    Clbs 7.250 7 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.268 9 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Suc 7.285 12 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.289 26 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing, which are what a wise man mainly cares for in his companion.
    Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.301 15 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Suc 7.302 21 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    Suc 7.306 26 What delights, what emancipates...is wise and good in speech and in the arts.
    Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] is a quiet, wise perception.
    Suc 7.311 20 ...[the inner life] makes no progress; was as wise in our first memory of it as now;...
    OA 7.323 2 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams, the wise and heroic statesmen;...
    OA 7.329 3 The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
    OA 7.330 14 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
    OA 7.335 26 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    PI 8.26 25 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man...
    PI 8.39 20 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also...
    PI 8.55 8 There's naught in this life sweet,/ If men were wise to see 't,/ But only melancholy./
    PI 8.67 2 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls...
    SA 8.79 3 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend.
    SA 8.79 18 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.88 15 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    SA 8.90 17 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.92 3 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met...
    SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
    SA 8.93 7 [Women] are not only wise themselves, they make us wise.
    SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men...
    Elo2 8.109 11 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    Elo2 8.117 5 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak.
    Elo2 8.128 26 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Res 8.135 1 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Res 8.154 6 ...the resources of America and its future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.
    Comc 8.168 20 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification...stops in the classification; or learning languages and reading books...stops in the languages and books; in both the learner seems to be wise, and is not.
    QO 8.178 15 ...they prize [books] most who are themselves wise.
    QO 8.190 16 There is none so eminent and wise but he knows minds whose opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
    QO 8.200 21 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    PC 8.215 27 The founders of nations, the wise men and inventors who shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in their own time.
    PC 8.219 8 ...in every wise and genial soul we have England, Greece, Italy, walking...
    PC 8.220 14 How much more are...the wise and good souls...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PC 8.227 26 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.
    PPo 8.246 17 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    PPo 8.250 17 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan? what is the wise man or the intoxicated?
    Insp 8.291 10 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.292 13 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon others and to be played upon...
    Grts 8.316 26 Henry VII. of England was a wise king.
    Imtl 8.328 16 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living.
    Imtl 8.334 4 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.338 22 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    Imtl 8.347 22 ...see how the sentiment is wise.
    Imtl 8.352 1 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Dem1 10.8 10 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man...
    Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey...
    Dem1 10.19 14 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    Dem1 10.21 14 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant...
    Aris 10.56 27 The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view.
    Aris 10.64 22 ...a good head soon grows wise, and does not govern too much.
    PerF 10.76 2 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    PerF 10.78 22 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person...wise in counsel...
    Chr2 10.120 6 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Edc1 10.125 6 Language is always wise.
    Edc1 10.145 10 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.151 11 Is it not manifest...that wise men thinking for themselves... should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Edc1 10.152 26 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.
    Edc1 10.157 23 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it...
    Supl 10.174 10 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime. The wise man shuns all this.
    SovE 10.183 19 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form.
    SovE 10.199 5 Wise on all other, [many men] lose their head the moment they talk of religion.
    Prch 10.225 18 All wise men regard [the moral sentiment] as the voice of the Creator himself.
    Prch 10.235 24 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    Schr 10.264 25 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
    Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.270 9 ...such is the gulf between our perception and our painting, the eye is so wise, and the hand so clumsy, that all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.271 5 Will [wealth]...make its Almacks too narrow for a wise man to enter?
    Schr 10.273 11 In our experiences, learning is not learned, nor is genius wise.
    Schr 10.280 9 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours...to the wise instinct...
    Schr 10.283 13 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
    Plu 10.291 4 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.299 1 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use, and with a wise man's or a poet's eye.
    Plu 10.305 15 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and other wise men;...
    Plu 10.313 25 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    LLNE 10.363 5 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred, and draw from him a wise counsel.
    Thor 10.480 26 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society.
    LS 11.21 23 [Christianity] has for its object simply to make men good and wise.
    HDC 11.29 9 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord]. The sentiment is just, and the practice is wise.
    HDC 11.48 25 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
    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?
    EWI 11.108 25 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    EWI 11.109 18 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
    EWI 11.147 3 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    War 11.169 24 A wise man will never impawn his future being and action...
    FSLN 11.222 4 ...[Webster] was so thoroughly simple and wise in his rhetoric;...
    AsSu 11.251 15 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner], so comely and so wise, must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
    JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    ALin 11.328 9 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    ALin 11.332 26 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    Wom 11.408 22 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization...
    Wom 11.416 12 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
    Shak1 11.450 5 ...[Shakespeare] is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Scot 11.467 8 [Scott] was a thoroughly upright, wise and great-hearted man...
    ChiE 11.472 22 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    FRO2 11.487 21 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
    FRO2 11.488 20 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize;...
    CPL 11.502 10 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests...to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation. It is a just type of the service rendered to mankind by wise men.
    CPL 11.503 9 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic.
    FRep 11.533 9 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    PLT 12.27 17 There is no permanent wise man...
    PLT 12.27 19 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    II 12.69 1 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    Mem 12.104 22 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    CInt 12.128 13 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher...
    CInt 12.128 17 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...
    CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
    CL 12.161 8 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop...
    Bost 12.204 20 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people; liberty, clean and wise.
    Bost 12.208 26 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what...wise merchants;...
    MAng1 12.219 17 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface...
    Milt1 12.256 17 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
    Milt1 12.266 12 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.271 12 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man...
    Milt1 12.272 15 [Milton's tracts] are all varied applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.
    ACri 12.294 11 [Shakespeare's] fun is as wise as his earnest...
    MLit 12.316 11 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which...would not make itself intelligible to the wise man of another age or country?
    MLit 12.329 9 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual, as, after years of dreams, it will still appear and reappear to wise men.
    Pray 12.351 19 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that I may account him to be rich, who is wise and just.
    PPr 12.379 15 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn to a scholar's house...
    PPr 12.389 16 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

Wise, Henry Alexander, n. (2)

    Cour 7.271 13 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
    Cour 7.271 15 If Governor Wise is a superior man...he distinguishes John Brown.

Wise Masters, Seven, n. (4)

    PPh 4.47 11 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    Civ 7.33 2 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Boks 7.200 24 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    ALin 11.333 20 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years, like...one of the Seven Wise Masters...

Wise, Merlin the, n. (1)

    OA 7.317 14 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...

wise, n. (43)

    Nat 1.75 8 To the wise...a fact is true poetry...
    LT 1.259 13 The Times are...tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise;...
    Tran 1.344 22 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise;...
    Tran 1.348 22 ...the good and wise must learn to act...
    Tran 1.352 10 When I asked them concerning their private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this wise...
    SL 2.137 26 The simplicity of nature...is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
    Fdsp 2.194 6 ...I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
    Hsm1 2.249 1 Life is a festival only to the wise.
    Exp 3.56 6 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
    Exp 3.66 26 The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
    Mrs1 3.124 7 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
    Pol1 3.200 7 ...the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand...
    NER 3.270 17 I do not recognize, beside the class of the good and the wise, a permanent class of sceptics...
    NER 3.285 16 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    PPh 4.50 21 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves.
    PPh 4.64 24 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    PNR 4.80 23 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    MoS 4.182 22 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make believe them? Will any say, This is cold and infidel? The wise and magnanimous will not say so.
    ET18 5.304 25 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom,--freedom which is double-edged and dangerous to any but the wise and robust.
    Wsp 6.212 13 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day...
    CbW 6.246 10 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    Ill 6.325 5 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./
    Art2 7.48 11 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become...in no wise a contradiction of Nature;...
    Art2 7.53 27 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
    Elo1 7.62 14 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    WD 7.169 15 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.176 17 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all, in the form of the Madonna; and in life, this is the secret of the wise.
    WD 7.179 6 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    Elo2 8.111 4 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence; and the wise think it better than a battle.
    Res 8.153 25 ...the world belongs to the energetic, belongs to the wise.
    Imtl 8.324 14 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.351 15 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Aris 10.39 27 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be truth,-the doing what elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would gladly see all our institutions rightly aristocratic in this wise.
    Aris 10.52 8 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    SovE 10.191 11 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...with...courage and the victories of the just and wise over malice and wrong.
    Thor 10.469 3 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    FSLC 11.212 16 We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
    SHC 11.435 13 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...the good, the wise and great will have left their names and virtues on the trees;...
    FRep 11.524 21 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    PLT 12.46 15 If the thought...does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile.
    CInt 12.128 14 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher, but colleges and teachers are no wise essential to him;...
    ACri 12.286 25 Speak with the vulgar, think with the wise.
    EurB 12.366 25 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning.

wiselier, adv. (3)

    Cir 2.312 8 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Ill 6.316 20 Teague and his jade...learn something, and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...

wisely, adv. (17)

    DSA 1.139 16 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely heard;...
    Pol1 3.208 17 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    Pol1 3.211 18 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
    NR 3.226 13 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    NR 3.244 17 If we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals, let us see the parts wisely...
    MoS 4.170 5 Shall we say that Montaigne has spoken wisely...
    ShP 4.197 4 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    GoW 4.263 12 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
    ET11 5.196 16 English history, wisely read, is the vindication of the brain of that people.
    CbW 6.273 22 ...who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
    Edc1 10.125 4 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.
    Thor 10.454 12 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.
    HDC 11.83 13 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
    Wom 11.422 2 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    PLT 12.14 5 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to live with it wisely...
    CL 12.157 2 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.
    Bost 12.191 14 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...

wiser, adj. (42)

    DSA 1.138 5 If [the preacher] had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.
    DSA 1.144 26 [Men] think society wiser than their soul...
    DSA 1.145 1 [Men]...know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.
    DSA 1.147 4 We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had...with souls that made our souls wiser;...
    DSA 1.148 8 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence in compositions we call wiser and wisest.
    MN 1.217 16 He who is in love is wise, and is becoming wiser...
    Comp 2.96 2 ...men are wiser than they know.
    SL 2.135 14 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of...a wiser mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    SL 2.147 4 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser...
    SL 2.147 23 ...it is not observed...that librarians are wiser men than others.
    Prd1 2.226 8 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    OS 2.277 17 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were.
    OS 2.280 8 We are wiser than we know.
    OS 2.289 6 The soul is...wiser than any of its works.
    OS 2.292 6 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of new ideas. They leave them wiser and superior men.
    Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    Nat2 3.193 25 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth...soothes us to wiser convictions.
    SwM 4.106 24 ...[Swedenborg] held...that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    MoS 4.175 12 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    ET5 5.83 17 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET14 5.247 2 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks,--but 't is not for us to be wiser;...
    ET18 5.307 18 Congress is not wiser or better than Parliament.
    Ctr 6.162 6 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    WD 7.178 10 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Clbs 7.244 10 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    Cour 7.254 20 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make the earthquake harmless...
    QO 8.190 1 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    Imtl 8.341 9 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end. That which he has learned is that there is much more to be learned. The wiser he is, he feels only the more his incompetence.
    Dem1 10.16 2 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    Aris 10.63 20 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate, and wiser counsels will prevail;...
    Plu 10.303 21 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not, and he that was deceived was wiser than he who was not deceived.
    LLNE 10.358 23 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he...
    FSLC 11.200 18 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    AKan 11.255 8 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    PLT 12.29 19 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm, one, that I am wiser than you, and the other that You are wiser than I.
    PLT 12.29 20 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm, one, that I am wiser than you, and the other that You are wiser than I.
    CInt 12.122 10 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school. Milton, wiser, felt no absurdity in this conduct.
    MLit 12.321 23 The soul is...wiser than any of its works.
    MLit 12.322 2 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...
    MLit 12.332 17 Life for [Goethe] is prettier, easier, wiser, decenter...but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

wisest, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.8 2 Neither does the wisest man extort [nature's] secret...
    DSA 1.148 9 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence in compositions we call wiser and wisest.
    MN 1.214 8 Nature represents the best meaning of the wisest man.
    Int 2.325 16 ...the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
    NR 3.231 4 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    Ill 6.325 5 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./
    Boks 7.190 13 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Boks 7.204 27 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age; Tacitus, the wisest of historians;...
    Clbs 7.238 10 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer; What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be.
    OA 7.322 13 We still feel the force of Socrates, whom well-advised the oracle pronounced wisest of men;...
    PI 8.62 6 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world?
    Dem1 10.13 26 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event...
    Edc1 10.141 3 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
    Plu 10.317 7 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
    SMC 11.363 21 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
    ChiE 11.472 21 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    FRep 11.541 24 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.
    MLit 12.321 17 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert. It is the wisest part of Shakspeare and of Milton.

wisest, n. (4)

    Chr1 3.107 19 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Grts 8.318 27 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
    Edc1 10.152 23 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted to adopt violent means...
    Bost 12.182 11 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./

wish, n. (41)

    MN 1.210 20 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    Tran 1.339 1 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?
    Tran 1.343 4 ...[Transcendentalists] have even more than others a great wish to be loved.
    Tran 1.347 11 ...it is really a wish to be met...which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.
    Tran 1.347 12 ...it is really...the wish to find society for their hope and religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.
    YA 1.380 24 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    Prd1 2.232 6 [The man of talent's] art never taught him...the wish to reap where he had not sowed.
    Hsm1 2.254 18 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    Chr1 3.93 1 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...
    NER 3.260 10 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to cast aside the superfluous...
    UGM 4.21 25 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
    MoS 4.156 16 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that?
    NMW 4.243 13 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...a wish to measure his power with other masters...
    ET1 5.4 3 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET19 5.311 1 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
    Bhr 6.196 5 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    CbW 6.255 23 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 6.278 24 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve...
    Clbs 7.228 2 The wish to speak to the want of another mind assists to clear your own.
    Clbs 7.236 23 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
    Cour 7.260 25 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    Cour 7.273 27 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish to succor some partial and temporary interest...it is not imparted...
    OA 7.327 21 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    SA 8.85 17 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    Imtl 8.337 2 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion...are not random whims...
    Imtl 8.337 3 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are not random whims...
    Dem1 10.25 17 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
    Aris 10.31 16 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is...the wish to be gentlemen.
    Edc1 10.157 4 The will, the male power...imposes its own thought and wish on others...
    SovE 10.190 2 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...
    SovE 10.207 15 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek for our superiors... we shall not long look in vain.
    MMEm 10.412 26 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains her, not one care.
    LS 11.18 9 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    FSLN 11.225 2 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    TPar 11.287 11 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...whilst I acquitted him, of course, of any wish to be flippant.
    FRO2 11.485 18 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind...
    CInt 12.132 4 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.136 6 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...
    ACri 12.289 5 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.
    WSL 12.340 9 ...we...have no wish, if we were able, to put an argument in the mouth of [Landor's] critics.

wish, v. (246)

    Nat 1.59 9 I do not wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother...
    Nat 1.59 11 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    DSA 1.135 15 I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope.
    LE 1.174 14 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    MN 1.192 4 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at the industrious manufacturing village...
    MN 1.198 12 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
    MR 1.227 1 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    MR 1.240 18 I do not wish to overstate this doctrine of labor...
    MR 1.247 8 I do not wish to be absurd and pedantic in reform.
    MR 1.247 9 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    MR 1.253 13 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base.
    LT 1.260 26 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
    LT 1.274 22 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant.
    LT 1.283 5 It is not that men do not wish to act;...
    LT 1.284 19 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says...I wish I was not I.
    LT 1.287 1 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    LT 1.287 27 We do not wish to be deceived.
    LT 1.290 15 I wish to speak of the politics, education, business, and religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.305 9 ...you are under the necessity...to live by [the Actual order of things], whilst you wish to take away its life.
    Con 1.307 17 [The youth says] I do not wish to enter into your complex social system.
    Tran 1.335 15 I do not wish to overlook or to gainsay any reality;...
    Tran 1.343 14 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude,-and for whose sake they wish to exist.
    Tran 1.343 26 [Transcendentalists] wish a just and even fellowship, or none.
    Tran 1.344 1 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Tran 1.344 4 Like fairies, [Transcendentalists] do not wish to be spoken of.
    Tran 1.344 11 I do not wish to be profaned.
    Tran 1.350 4 Unless the action is necessary, unless it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.
    Tran 1.350 5 I do not wish to do one thing but once.
    Tran 1.352 27 I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight...
    YA 1.375 16 Fathers wish to be fathers of the minds of their children...
    YA 1.388 24 The opposition is against those who have money, from those who wish to have money.
    YA 1.392 22 ...it is one thing to visit the Pyramids, and another to wish to live there.
    SR 2.53 4 I do not wish to expiate, but to live.
    SR 2.53 8 I wish [my life] to be sound and sweet...
    SR 2.60 15 A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him;...
    SR 2.60 16 ...I wish that [the great man] should wish to please me.
    Comp 2.123 2 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...
    Comp 2.123 5 I do not wish more external goods...
    SL 2.162 12 I love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epaminondas.
    Lov1 2.172 4 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Fdsp 2.192 18 [The commended stranger] is what we wish.
    Fdsp 2.201 10 I do not wish to treat friendships daintily...
    Fdsp 2.205 2 I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence.
    Fdsp 2.205 5 I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
    Fdsp 2.210 22 ...wish [your friend] not less by a thought...
    Fdsp 2.215 21 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall...wish you were by my side again.
    Hsm1 2.261 10 We tell our charities, not because we wish to be praised for them...
    OS 2.279 20 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    Cir 2.320 5 People wish to be settled;...
    Exp 3.60 26 ...we should not postpone and refer and wish...
    Exp 3.81 25 [Men] wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
    Chr1 3.97 14 [The feeble souls] do not wish to be lovely, but to be loved.
    Mrs1 3.131 23 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.
    Mrs1 3.139 12 If you wish to be loved, love measure.
    Gts 3.162 4 We wish to be self-sustained.
    Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
    Pol1 3.206 21 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do...
    Pol1 3.210 1 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
    NR 3.235 22 I wish to speak with all respect of persons...
    NR 3.240 25 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us.
    NER 3.252 19 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment.
    NER 3.273 21 What is it we heartily wish of each other?
    NER 3.277 14 Do you ask my aid? I also wish to be a benefactor.
    NER 3.277 14 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
    NER 3.277 15 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
    NER 3.278 7 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    NER 3.278 8 We wish to hear ourselves confuted.
    NER 3.284 22 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority...
    UGM 4.12 13 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.
    UGM 4.22 21 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first.
    MoS 4.157 19 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged...that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    MoS 4.157 20 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged...that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    MoS 4.168 26 Montaigne...does not wish to jump out of his skin...
    MoS 4.172 19 ...parties wish every one committed...
    MoS 4.173 5 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against these benevolences...
    MoS 4.173 13 I wish to ferret [Montaigne's doubts and negations] out of their holes and sun them a little.
    NMW 4.243 26 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
    GoW 4.265 26 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    ET1 5.20 15 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?
    ET6 5.110 24 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they...never wish to hear of alteration more.
    ET8 5.142 15 [The English] wish neither to command nor obey...
    ET10 5.153 19 [The English] do not wish to be represented except by opulent men.
    ET13 5.229 1 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
    ET15 5.271 25 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.
    ET15 5.271 27 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
    F 6.46 26 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
    F 6.47 3 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    Pow 6.75 18 ...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 6.75 19 ...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.
    Wth 6.85 3 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.102 5 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
    Wth 6.108 3 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...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Ctr 6.150 14 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
    Ctr 6.159 8 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading...Calderon, we should wish to hug him.
    Ctr 6.162 5 We wish to learn philosophy by rote...
    Bhr 6.171 23 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. But this activity over, we...wish for those we can be at ease with;...
    Bhr 6.182 25 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you, if you wish, in those potent secrets.
    Bhr 6.185 1 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him.
    Wsp 6.223 25 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    Wsp 6.240 3 You shall not wish for death out of pusillanimity.
    CbW 6.247 15 I do not wish to be amused.
    CbW 6.247 15 I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.
    CbW 6.247 16 I wish the days to be as centuries...
    CbW 6.249 8 I wish not to concede anything to [masses]...
    CbW 6.249 14 I do not wish any mass at all...
    CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    Bty 6.281 3 Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
    Bty 6.284 18 The boy is not attracted [to science]. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
    Bty 6.298 6 We talk to [women] and wish to be listened to;...
    SS 7.14 7 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
    Elo1 7.76 24 What we really wish for is a mind equal to any exigency.
    Elo1 7.85 22 In a court of justice...[the audience] really wish to sift the statements and know what the truth is.
    Elo1 7.92 5 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
    DL 7.131 10 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    DL 7.131 13 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers; but I do not wish the vexation of owning them.
    DL 7.131 14 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
    WD 7.166 13 We cannot trace the triumphs of civilization to such benefactors as we wish.
    Boks 7.198 26 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see both sides...he shall be contented also.
    Boks 7.204 17 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Boks 7.212 26 The very dunces wish to go to the theatre.
    Clbs 7.244 26 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.246 15 A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains;...
    Cour 7.259 10 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys, who, without strength, wish to keep up the appearance of strength.
    Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    Cour 7.276 21 I do not wish to put myself or any man into a theatrical position...
    Suc 7.287 7 The Saxon is taught from his infancy to wish to be first.
    OA 7.333 21 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see him, but I don't wish him to come on my account.
    OA 7.333 25 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house, adding, And I wish I could walk as well as he did.
    PI 8.12 20 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their images] rashly rendered into prose reality...
    PI 8.12 24 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno...
    PI 8.29 14 I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...
    PI 8.32 26 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    SA 8.85 12 ...we all wish to be graceful...
    SA 8.99 12 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...
    Elo2 8.110 7 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.
    Elo2 8.128 19 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    PC 8.229 12 When [a man]...does not wish to shine...he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    PC 8.231 3 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...
    PC 8.231 27 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...
    PPo 8.249 16 We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...
    Insp 8.269 4 ...the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Insp 8.272 4 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Grts 8.302 1 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best.
    Grts 8.309 13 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it, and men who wish to be orators simulate it.
    Grts 8.316 3 I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way.
    Imtl 8.330 9 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Imtl 8.338 14 We wish to live for what is great...
    Imtl 8.338 15 I do not wish to live for the sake of my warm house...
    Imtl 8.338 17 I do not wish to live to wear out my boots.
    Dem1 10.21 15 There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant...
    Aris 10.31 19 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints;...
    Aris 10.38 15 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
    Aris 10.39 3 I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...
    Aris 10.46 7 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less. Neither do I wish to go into a vindication of the justice that disposes the variety of lot.
    Aris 10.47 7 I never feel that any man occupies my place, but that the reason why I do not have what I wish, is, that I want the faculty which entitles.
    Aris 10.51 27 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... doing for them what they wish done and cannot do;-of course, everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    PerF 10.83 27 ...if you wish to avail yourself of [the world's energies'] might...you must take their divine direction...
    PerF 10.84 1 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    PerF 10.84 19 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
    PerF 10.84 24 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen. And they wish the same service from the spiritual faculties.
    Chr2 10.109 5 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Chr2 10.109 11 ...[mankind at large]...wish to be amused.
    Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
    Edc1 10.155 18 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast, which all wish to return to their haunts, begin to return.
    Edc1 10.156 16 Have the self-command you wish to inspire.
    Supl 10.163 9 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    Supl 10.171 11 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    Supl 10.171 24 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish to sin on the other side...
    MoL 10.247 3 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force. I wish him to rely on the spiritual arm;...
    MoL 10.250 27 I wish the youth to be an armed and complete man;...
    MoL 10.255 13 Our people...do not wish to be misunderstood;...
    MoL 10.255 14 Our people...do not wish, of all things, to be in the minority.
    Schr 10.267 24 ...I do not wish to check your impulses to action...
    Schr 10.267 26 I do not wish to see you effeminate gownsmen...
    Schr 10.268 3 ...I rather wish you to experiment boldly...
    Schr 10.268 6 I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies growing out of your personal character.
    Schr 10.278 21 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Schr 10.282 27 I wish to see a revival of the human mind...
    Schr 10.284 15 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Can you obtain what you wish?
    Plu 10.295 16 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...who would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    EzRy 10.388 13 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done.
    MMEm 10.398 8 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
    MMEm 10.399 1 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    MMEm 10.406 23 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    MMEm 10.432 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] friends used to say to her, I wish you joy of the worm.
    Thor 10.471 13 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me: and they do not wish what belongs to it.
    Thor 10.483 4 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable;...
    Carl 10.491 22 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    EWI 11.135 9 ...I do not wish to darken the hours of this day by crimination;...
    EWI 11.139 10 What great masses of men wish done, will be done;...
    EWI 11.139 11 What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    EWI 11.143 6 We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds;...
    War 11.168 13 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    FSLC 11.202 11 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLN 11.230 16 We [in Massachusetts] have more money and value of every kind than other people, and wish to keep them.
    FSLN 11.241 14 I wish to see the instructed class here know their own flag...
    AsSu 11.248 15 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill. It is only when they cannot answer your reasons, that they wish to knock you down.
    AsSu 11.248 23 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    AsSu 11.251 18 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    AsSu 11.251 22 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    AKan 11.263 12 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.
    TPar 11.291 2 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.
    TPar 11.291 8 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so they shut their mouths.
    ACiv 11.301 1 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy.
    ACiv 11.302 26 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would leave the government behind...
    SMC 11.357 26 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    Koss 11.398 7 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained. We wish to discriminate in our regard.
    Koss 11.398 8 [The people of Concord] wish to reserve our honor for actions of the noblest strain.
    Wom 11.413 26 ...[Women] wish [love] to be an exchange of nobleness.
    Wom 11.418 25 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    Wom 11.421 18 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended. I could heartily wish the objection were sound.
    Wom 11.423 26 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
    Wom 11.424 9 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    FRO1 11.480 21 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    FRO2 11.485 1 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    FRO2 11.487 21 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
    FRep 11.531 8 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth...
    FRep 11.544 10 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    PLT 12.9 12 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused...
    PLT 12.14 1 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.
    PLT 12.15 3 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect]...
    PLT 12.30 7 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no one to be civil to me.
    PLT 12.32 9 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of truth, a timidity about affirming it; a wish to patronize Providence.
    PLT 12.56 3 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    PLT 12.64 1 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.
    Mem 12.92 12 [Memory...reports to you not what you wish, but what really befell.
    Mem 12.107 21 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess.
    CInt 12.117 12 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands...
    CInt 12.119 17 I wish you to be eloquent...
    CInt 12.119 19 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people...
    CInt 12.121 3 ...I wish this were a needless task, to urge upon you scholars the claims of thought and learning.
    CInt 12.124 10 I could heartily wish it were otherwise, but there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...
    CL 12.156 14 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    Bost 12.181 3 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 4 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 6 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Milt1 12.262 12 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
    ACri 12.284 16 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    ACri 12.291 17 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
    ACri 12.291 20 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    AgMs 12.361 12 ...our [New England] people...do not wish to spend too much on their buildings.
    PPr 12.389 9 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
    Let 12.394 15 [The correspondents] do not wish to force society into hated reforms...
    Let 12.394 16 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...

wished, v. (38)

    Comp 2.93 1 Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation;...
    NR 3.248 21 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    PPh 4.56 25 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    NMW 4.254 4 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    ET1 5.12 27 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
    ET1 5.20 25 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
    ET1 5.22 1 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.
    ET1 5.24 5 ...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    ET15 5.265 11 The proprietors [of the London Times]...gave [John Walter] whatever he wished.
    ET16 5.286 16 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
    Pow 6.62 17 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
    Wth 6.99 1 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.
    SS 7.4 21 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    Art2 7.56 3 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    WD 7.168 2 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    Suc 7.310 21 Which of [the most sanguine] has not failed to please where they most wished it?...
    Grts 8.315 25 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him and wished to dedicate it to a pious Duc d'Orleans, came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    Aris 10.48 7 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life; I earnestly wished it might be under his protection...
    Edc1 10.153 12 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...
    SovE 10.196 23 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 be my own master...
    MoL 10.253 24 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    LLNE 10.340 21 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
    LLNE 10.360 8 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.
    EzRy 10.381 14 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school...
    MMEm 10.403 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] wished you to scorn to shine.
    MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    Thor 10.454 3 [Thoreau]...wished to settle all his practice on an ideal foundation.
    Thor 10.457 11 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story, such as she wished to hear...
    Thor 10.459 25 ...[Thoreau] wished to go to Oregon, not to London.
    Thor 10.478 20 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    ALin 11.336 3 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than to have lived to be wished away;...
    SMC 11.359 14 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men...neither dared nor wished to disobey him.
    Wom 11.419 10 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    CInt 12.118 12 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    Bost 12.205 12 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    MAng1 12.228 16 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    Milt1 12.273 14 [Milton] wished that his writings should be communicated only to those who desired to see them.
    Pray 12.352 9 ...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend]...because I wished to be engaged in my business.

wished-for, adj. (1)

    PI 8.5 6 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...

wishes, n. (23)

    DSA 1.148 13 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends, so that not the unjust wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom...
    YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    ShP 4.198 25 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
    F 6.3 19 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    F 6.29 19 ...goodness dies in wishes.
    Wsp 6.228 8 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness...
    DL 7.121 16 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation, which others possess. Woe to them if their wishes were crowned!
    WD 7.155 8 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    Cour 7.254 2 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...
    Cour 7.254 23 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...
    Cour 7.265 22 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    OA 7.327 17 One by one, day after day, [man] learns to coin his wishes into facts.
    SA 8.91 2 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions, though they happen at this moment to thwart his wishes.
    Chr2 10.94 8 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.94 13 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    EWI 11.116 8 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...and exchanged the most hearty good wishes.
    FSLN 11.220 4 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    SHC 11.429 3 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.429 18 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
    MAng1 12.236 24 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with, and this was the capital object of his wishes...
    MLit 12.318 13 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Trag 12.406 27 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 12.407 1 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...crushing [man] if his wishes lie contrary to it...

wishes, v. (72)

    LT 1.286 8 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.335 25 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    YA 1.378 12 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell;...
    SL 2.146 7 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    Prd1 2.237 11 He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
    Chr1 3.101 8 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only. He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.
    Mrs1 3.138 1 I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread...
    Mrs1 3.138 2 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them...
    Gts 3.163 25 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
    Pol1 3.202 11 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    NR 3.240 25 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us.
    NER 3.276 27 ...every man at heart wishes the best and not inferior society...
    NER 3.277 1 ...every man at heart...wishes to be convicted of his error...
    NER 3.277 2 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop in his thought...
    NER 3.277 8 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform...
    UGM 4.27 1 Every mother wishes one son a genius...
    UGM 4.28 18 ...nature wishes every thing to remain itself;...
    PPh 4.66 20 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages, who wishes to receive lessons from Socrates.
    MoS 4.161 5 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
    MoS 4.166 12 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    ShP 4.193 17 ...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.
    GoW 4.286 5 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
    ET1 5.18 25 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET8 5.127 18 When [the Englishman] wishes for amusement, he goes to work.
    ET9 5.145 22 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET10 5.165 2 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET15 5.272 9 The [London] Times...wishes never to be in a minority.
    ET16 5.274 15 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence...
    F 6.48 3 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
    Wth 6.91 15 ...if [a man] wishes the power and privilege of thought...he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.97 27 Every man wishes to see the ring of Saturn...yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    Ctr 6.164 1 Who wishes to be severe?
    Ctr 6.164 2 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
    CbW 6.247 14 Society wishes to be amused.
    Bty 6.296 16 Nature wishes that woman should attract man...
    Ill 6.312 20 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
    Elo1 7.64 9 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    Elo1 7.65 3 That which [the orator] wishes...is not a particular skill in telling a story...
    Elo1 7.85 14 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    DL 7.104 21 Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, [the young American] wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh.
    DL 7.107 12 If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world...he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    Clbs 7.244 27 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company...
    Clbs 7.245 22 Nobody wishes bad manners.
    Cour 7.275 5 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
    PI 8.22 16 [Man] wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him.
    SA 8.101 5 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this...
    Comc 8.167 3 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison, in which the man sits down immovably, and wishes to detain others.
    Imtl 8.351 21 Brahma the supreme, whoever knows him obtains whatever he wishes.
    PerF 10.84 27 A man has a rare mathematical talent...and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Chr2 10.116 3 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth (easily disengaged from their historical accidents which nobody wishes to force on us), the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.119 5 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...and never wishes to be assisted more.
    Chr2 10.121 15 Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
    Edc1 10.137 2 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    Edc1 10.148 25 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...
    Supl 10.164 27 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw; I never in my life! One wishes these terms gazetted and forbidden.
    Supl 10.170 1 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    Prch 10.230 9 [The man of practice or worldly force] wishes [the preacher] to be such a one as he himself should have been, had he been priest.
    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 10.308 16 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    LS 11.7 4 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death, and wishes the minds of his disciples to be prepared for it.
    FSLN 11.232 4 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground;...
    Wom 11.422 12 ...one [man] wishes schools, another armies...
    PLT 12.30 10 Power...wishes you not to be like him but like yourself.
    PLT 12.39 21 [The intellectual man] not only wishes to succeed in life, but he wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    PLT 12.39 22 ...[the intellectual man] wishes in thought to know the history and destiny of a man;...
    II 12.72 24 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    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...
    CW 12.176 26 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...
    CW 12.177 3 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...
    MLit 12.311 11 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    AgMs 12.360 13 ...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to say...

wishfully, adv. (1)

    Aris 10.44 24 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. The poet sees wishfully enough the result;...

wishing, n. (3)

    Insp 8.294 27 Neither by sea nor by land, said Pindar, canst thou find the way to the Hyperboreans; neither by idle wishing...
    PLT 12.46 3 Wishing is one thing; will another.
    PLT 12.46 4 Wishing is castle-building;...

wishing, v. (12)

    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 4.288 19 All the geniuses are usually so ill-assorted and sickly that one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
    ET2 5.30 15 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England.
    Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Clbs 7.244 27 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Res 8.146 5 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him...
    Edc1 10.135 24 ...I am very far from wishing that [the moral nature of man] should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    SovE 10.194 20 Let [a man] find his superiority in not wishing superiority;...
    Thor 10.455 1 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms.
    JBS 11.277 24 [John Brown] said that he...could not see a seedy hat without wishing to pull it off.
    ALin 11.336 25 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    SHC 11.430 21 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children...

wist, v. (1)

    Exp 3.69 3 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation, so that though it is done before you, you wist not of it.

wistful, adj. (1)

    DL 7.105 10 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.

wistfully, adv. (3)

    WD 7.177 8 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    Dem1 10.28 6 The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner?
    EPro 11.322 21 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him;...

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