Work to Work-Yards

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

work, n. (413)

    Nat 1.16 19 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    Nat 1.23 15 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Nat 1.23 16 A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.
    Nat 1.24 9 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
    Nat 1.28 7 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...the organs, or work, or noise of an insect, applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.71 26 [Man] adores timidly his own work.
    AmS 1.83 6 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work...
    AmS 1.83 26 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    AmS 1.114 17 There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
    AmS 1.115 7 ...for work the study and the communication of principles...
    LE 1.179 13 ...the modern majesty consists in work.
    LE 1.181 5 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
    MN 1.191 9 No matter what is their special work or profession, [the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MN 1.193 1 The weaver should not be bereaved of his superiority to his work...
    MN 1.201 4 Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy...
    MN 1.207 5 When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
    MN 1.207 21 ...[a man] applies himself to his work;...
    MN 1.210 26 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
    MN 1.210 27 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
    MN 1.211 27 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world?
    MN 1.219 7 What is all history but the work of ideas...
    MR 1.236 21 We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
    MR 1.237 6 ...not only health, but education is in the work.
    MR 1.237 22 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent, being detained by work of my own...
    MR 1.237 22 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent, being detained by... work of the same faculties;...
    MR 1.240 25 ...where a man does not yet discover in himself any fitness for one work more than another, [the husbandman's] may be preferred.
    MR 1.241 1 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    LT 1.271 21 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful; but not our own daily work...
    LT 1.277 20 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him;...
    LT 1.277 21 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him;...
    LT 1.283 8 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still.
    Con 1.296 12 ...Uranus cried, A new work, O Saturn! the old is not good again.
    Con 1.308 5 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess; it was not got by fraud, nor by luck, but by work...
    Con 1.313 10 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
    Con 1.321 3 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree that...seriously interrupted the progress of the work.
    Con 1.321 6 ...the work went on prosperously.
    Tran 1.341 7 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] feel the disproportion between their faculties and the work offered them...
    Tran 1.341 11 [Many intelligent and religious persons] are striking work, and crying out for somewhat worthy to do!
    Tran 1.345 8 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    Tran 1.348 12 What right, cries the good world, has the man of genius to retreat from work, and indulge himself?
    Tran 1.350 27 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work.
    Tran 1.351 7 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe beckons and calls us to work.
    YA 1.368 15 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    YA 1.381 4 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    YA 1.381 10 The farmer, after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    YA 1.382 6 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.385 13 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    YA 1.387 6 If society were transparent, the noble...would not be asked for his day's work...
    YA 1.390 14 We have our own affairs, our own genius, which chains each to his proper work.
    YA 1.390 18 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
    Hist 2.10 12 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
    Hist 2.10 20 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand before every public and private work;...
    Hist 2.11 14 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    Hist 2.18 1 In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work;...
    SR 2.45 23 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;...
    SR 2.47 5 ...God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
    SR 2.47 7 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
    SR 2.54 15 ...do your work, and I shall know you.
    SR 2.54 16 Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
    SR 2.62 26 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...common day's work;...
    SR 2.78 12 Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work...
    Comp 2.108 16 Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.
    Comp 2.119 19 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work.
    SL 2.139 27 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work...of men would go on far better than now...
    SL 2.140 16 ...the action which I in all my years tend to do, is the work for my faculties.
    SL 2.141 10 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    SL 2.141 11 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    SL 2.141 23 By doing his work [a man] makes the need felt which he can supply...
    SL 2.141 25 By doing his own work [a man] unfolds himself.
    SL 2.142 7 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SL 2.142 13 [A man] must find in [his vocation] an outlet for his character, so that he may justify his work to their eyes.
    SL 2.151 26 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
    SL 2.157 6 This is that law whereby a work of art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it.
    SL 2.164 13 It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.
    SL 2.164 25 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Lov1 2.179 26 The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts.
    Lov1 2.184 16 The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
    Prd1 2.231 5 ...the boldest lyric inspiration...should announce and lead the civil code and the day's work.
    Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    Cir 2.312 20 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    Cir 2.317 17 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which...sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done...
    Int 2.338 26 The intellect...demands integrity in every work.
    Art1 2.352 20 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art]...
    Art1 2.352 23 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.353 6 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    Art1 2.353 14 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.355 10 ...each work of genius is the tyrant of the hour...
    Art1 2.356 12 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
    Art1 2.356 13 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
    Art1 2.358 17 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art;...the work of genius.
    Art1 2.358 25 The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of human character...
    Art1 2.359 25 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...
    Art1 2.360 5 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
    Art1 2.363 13 There is higher work for Art than the arts.
    Art1 2.363 26 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Art1 2.366 19 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely...to do up the work as unavoidable...
    Pt1 3.10 14 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither...
    Pt1 3.11 18 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    Pt1 3.20 7 ...workmen, work, and tools...all are emblems;...
    Pt1 3.38 21 Art is the path of the creator to his work.
    Exp 3.81 15 [The life of truth] does not attempt another's work...
    Chr1 3.88 1 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Chr1 3.93 10 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning...
    Chr1 3.106 4 ...I never listened to your people's law...and wasted my time. I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own; hence this sweetness; my work never reminds you of that, is pure of that.
    Mrs1 3.124 17 The rulers of society must be up to the work of the world...
    Mrs1 3.129 21 You may keep this [aristocratic, fashionable] minority out of sight and out of mind, but it...is one of the estates of the realm. I am the more struck with this tenacity, when I see its work.
    Nat2 3.181 18 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    Nat2 3.189 23 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Nat2 3.189 24 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance. My work may be of none, but I must not think it of none, or I shall not do it with impunity.
    Nat2 3.194 17 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    NR 3.230 14 Webster cannot do the work of Webster.
    NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    NR 3.237 22 ...[Nature] is full of work...
    NR 3.244 27 ...I would have no work of art...but the best.
    NER 3.261 4 ...[many reformers] are not equal to the work they pretend.
    NER 3.267 13 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
    NER 3.281 20 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
    NER 3.283 20 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    NER 3.283 22 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    UGM 4.23 12 Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.
    PPh 4.41 21 ...after some time it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his school.
    PPh 4.45 10 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
    PPh 4.69 24 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    PPh 4.69 27 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    PPh 4.76 7 ...[Plato's] writings have not,--what is no doubt incident to this regnancy of intellect in his work,--the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    SwM 4.126 3 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
    MoS 4.168 15 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work...
    ShP 4.193 16 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.194 7 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.199 23 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work...
    ShP 4.201 4 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    ShP 4.210 2 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    NMW 4.230 18 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the directness and thoroughness of his work;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.245 27 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...this strong steam-engine does our work.
    NMW 4.250 17 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    GoW 4.278 1 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight. It is preferred by some such to Hamlet, as a work of genius.
    GoW 4.283 25 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;but his work is the least part of him.
    ET1 5.6 2 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    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 5.14 6 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET2 5.26 20 At last, on Sunday night, after doing one day's work in four, the storm came...
    ET2 5.30 19 ...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. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate...
    ET3 5.43 5 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
    ET5 5.76 14 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET5 5.76 21 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET5 5.79 18 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. Whatsoever he doth, swarving from this work, he doth as deficient from the nature of man;...
    ET5 5.89 10 ...that is characteristic of all [the Englishmen's] work,--no more is attempted than is done.
    ET5 5.91 1 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father... expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    ET5 5.91 7 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
    ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;...
    ET6 5.103 4 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England]...
    ET7 5.117 27 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    ET8 5.127 19 When [the Englishman] wishes for amusement, he goes to work.
    ET8 5.139 7 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without damaging themselves.
    ET8 5.142 7 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
    ET10 5.158 20 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and the machine dispensed with the work of ninety-nine men;...
    ET10 5.158 22 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before.
    ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.166 27 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    ET11 5.177 13 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.
    ET11 5.196 24 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown.
    ET12 5.204 20 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination, do no work...
    ET13 5.215 12 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England]...
    ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
    ET15 5.267 3 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET15 5.267 14 The daily paper [London Times] is the work of many hands...
    ET15 5.269 8 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty.
    ET16 5.281 14 ...was [Stonehenge] a Roman work, as Inigo Jones explained to King James;...
    ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    ET19 5.311 13 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which is a national [English] characteristic.
    F 6.38 13 ...nature makes every creature do its own work...
    F 6.41 7 The pleasure of life is...not according to the work or the place.
    F 6.41 15 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Pow 6.68 2 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess...
    Pow 6.70 1 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.
    Pow 6.71 22 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body, on power of work, on courage;...
    Pow 6.74 6 Everything is good which...drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
    Pow 6.74 11 You must elect your work;...
    Pow 6.74 24 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Pow 6.80 16 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.88 6 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...
    Wth 6.92 8 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.92 10 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...they whose work carves out work for more...
    Wth 6.97 15 They should own who can administer...they whose work carves out work for more...
    Wth 6.98 24 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
    Wth 6.101 24 [The farmer's] bones ache with the days' work that earned [his dollar].
    Wth 6.112 12 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work...
    Wth 6.112 13 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work...
    Wth 6.114 21 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which will...spoil him for his proper work.
    Wth 6.118 27 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work, or a half day;...
    Wth 6.119 2 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid; each gave a day's work... and kept his work even;...
    Wth 6.120 8 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work;...
    Wth 6.120 10 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen? The farmer fats his after the spring work is done, and kills them in the fall.
    Ctr 6.146 20 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    Ctr 6.154 12 To a man at work, the frost is but a color;...
    Ctr 6.155 18 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then goes back cheerfully to work again.
    Wsp 6.213 23 ...the enginery at work to draw out these powers [of the senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.
    Wsp 6.223 10 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Wsp 6.224 24 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield.
    Wsp 6.225 8 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
    Wsp 6.225 17 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    Wsp 6.225 25 In every variety of human employment...there are...those who love work...
    Wsp 6.226 6 Work is victory.
    Wsp 6.226 7 Wherever work is done, victory is obtained.
    Wsp 6.232 18 The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends [a man].
    Wsp 6.240 8 You must do your work, before you shall be released.
    SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
    SS 7.6 10 Nature protects her own work.
    SS 7.12 24 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as...an Irishman's day's work on the railroad.
    Civ 7.20 6 The Indians of this country have not learned the white man's work;...
    Civ 7.23 5 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus becomes.
    Civ 7.27 10 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    Art2 7.43 4 [Man's] art is the least part of his work of art.
    Art2 7.45 15 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art, of which there is much in every work of art.
    Art2 7.46 1 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    Art2 7.46 23 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.
    Art2 7.48 9 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
    Art2 7.48 16 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
    Art2 7.49 8 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
    Art2 7.49 13 So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Art2 7.50 18 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Art2 7.51 1 The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure manifestation of the same.
    Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Art2 7.51 16 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Art2 7.53 13 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
    Art2 7.53 24 ...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...
    Elo1 7.68 9 ...we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best...
    Elo1 7.75 25 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work.
    Elo1 7.81 5 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his work...
    DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...tools for his work...
    Farm 7.135 4 [Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;/...
    Farm 7.137 9 Men do not like hard work...
    Farm 7.139 3 ...little by little, [Nature] achieves her work.
    Farm 7.140 1 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man;...
    WD 7.159 5 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for twenty days.
    WD 7.159 15 ...[steam] has not yet done all its work.
    WD 7.171 16 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
    WD 7.174 1 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    WD 7.177 6 That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required.
    WD 7.178 1 Another illusion is that there is not time enough for our work.
    WD 7.185 14 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and the right we have to the work...
    Boks 7.190 7 ...there are...books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Boks 7.220 23 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single work or series for which he is qualified.
    Cour 7.263 25 To [the sailor] a leak, a hurricane, or a water-spout is so much work,--no more.
    Cour 7.273 18 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him...
    Cour 7.276 26 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    Suc 7.291 16 Do your work.
    Suc 7.292 5 Any work looks wonderful to [a man], except that which he can do.
    Suc 7.294 5 Cannot we please ourselves with performing our work...
    Suc 7.294 11 ...the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
    Suc 7.294 14 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    Suc 7.294 22 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Suc 7.300 11 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new world of dream-like glory.
    Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action...that is the work of divine men.
    OA 7.319 13 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    OA 7.328 25 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it,--not one completed work.
    OA 7.331 25 America is...too full of work hitherto for leisure and tranquillity;...
    PI 8.27 22 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.40 5 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.40 11 [The writer's] work needs a frolic health;...
    PI 8.43 1 None any work can frame,/ Unless himself become the same./
    PI 8.52 11 ...we talk of our work...in prose;...
    PI 8.54 25 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    SA 8.82 7 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at work...
    SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    SA 8.104 8 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime; and we know that in this abstraction they are executing excellent work.
    QO 8.181 16 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.181 22 Mythology is no man's work;...
    QO 8.182 9 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...until it is at last the work of the whole communion of worshippers.
    QO 8.200 24 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
    PC 8.210 8 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    PC 8.220 6 All [the true student's] own work and culture form the eye to see the master.
    PPo 8.260 10 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/
    Insp 8.280 13 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...
    Insp 8.291 18 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house...
    Grts 8.310 22 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Imtl 8.328 22 ...spend yourself on the work before you...
    Imtl 8.339 12 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.341 5 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
    Imtl 8.341 7 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Dem1 10.12 2 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles, doing all the work of a slave.
    Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Aris 10.50 25 It is not sufficient that your work follows your genius...
    Aris 10.64 4 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    PerF 10.69 14 Never was any man too strong for his proper work.
    PerF 10.79 17 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work...
    Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    SovE 10.194 10 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work;...
    Prch 10.228 18 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they used his name to falsify his history and undo his work.
    Prch 10.234 10 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated, assisted each in our own work...
    MoL 10.239 2 On bravely through the sunshine and the showers,/ Time hath his work to do, and we have ours./
    MoL 10.242 22 ...the wealth of the globe was here, too much work and not men enough to do it.
    MoL 10.252 16 AThought...distributes the work of the world;...
    MoL 10.253 19 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon...
    MoL 10.255 17 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show a skilful hand...
    Schr 10.272 15 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in manual work or in household affairs;...
    Schr 10.273 1 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties, the manner in which every day's events will find him in work, may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Schr 10.278 22 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Plu 10.296 20 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    Plu 10.317 5 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;...
    Plu 10.317 19 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.317 25 ...I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him...
    Plu 10.321 3 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...
    LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    LLNE 10.335 9 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on the work a last fragrancy and glitter.
    LLNE 10.343 27 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    LLNE 10.349 27 By reason of the isolation of men at the present day, all work is drudgery.
    LLNE 10.350 1 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
    LLNE 10.359 6 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    LLNE 10.360 1 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly committees to the men and women.
    LLNE 10.364 13 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.366 9 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not...
    LLNE 10.367 11 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    MMEm 10.400 15 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was plenty of work for the little niece to do day by day...
    MMEm 10.400 23 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days. More and sadder work for this young girl.
    MMEm 10.411 12 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.424 6 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work...
    SlHr 10.446 4 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable, as every work of nature is...
    Thor 10.451 20 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
    Thor 10.453 6 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as...planting, grafting, surveying or other short work...
    Thor 10.453 24 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated...
    Thor 10.464 24 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    Thor 10.481 26 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.
    Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    Carl 10.495 27 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them;...
    GSt 10.503 15 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo, then at Philadelphia and Nashville. But these were only parts of his work.
    GSt 10.503 27 ...for himself [George Stearns] asked only to do the hard work.
    GSt 10.504 16 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man for up-hill work...
    GSt 10.507 4 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    HDC 11.38 20 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
    HDC 11.64 25 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    EWI 11.99 16 I might well hesitate...without the smallest claim to be a special laborer in this work of humanity, to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.115 19 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
    EWI 11.116 2 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased.
    EWI 11.116 23 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    EWI 11.119 11 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica]; they should not be made to dig the cane-holes (which is the very hardest of the field work);...
    EWI 11.123 25 We found it very convenient to keep [the negroes] at work...
    EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    EWI 11.125 12 It was shown to the planters...that though they paid no wages, they got very poor work;...
    FSLC 11.202 19 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
    FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLC 11.209 19 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
    FSLC 11.210 1 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work...
    FSLN 11.217 3 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful, and it seems like meddling or leaving your work.
    FSLN 11.243 16 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    ALin 11.330 2 [Lincoln] was the most active and hopeful of men; and his work had not perished...
    SMC 11.358 25 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    SMC 11.371 12 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    Wom 11.404 8 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    SHC 11.432 1 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park?
    FRO2 11.486 10 ...there is a force always at work to make the best better and the worst good.
    FRep 11.514 1 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.526 12 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    FRep 11.530 11 The revolution [in America] is the work of no man...
    FRep 11.542 13 As the tree exists for its fruit, so a man for his work.
    FRep 11.544 11 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    PLT 12.23 11 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
    PLT 12.48 5 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos, and the more armed and biassed for the work the better.
    PLT 12.48 7 Each of these talents is born to be unfolded and set at work for the use and delight of men...
    PLT 12.52 23 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
    II 12.70 19 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic... but they never complete their work.
    II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius!
    II 12.79 7 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
    II 12.82 25 The secret of power is delight in one's work.
    II 12.83 12 All we ask of any man is to be contented with his own work.
    II 12.85 22 A man must do the work with that faculty he has now.
    Mem 12.105 10 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    CL 12.141 15 [The air] is the last finish of the work of the Creator.
    Bost 12.202 20 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished...
    Bost 12.204 9 When [Nature] has work to do, she qualifies men for that...
    MAng1 12.218 15 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
    MAng1 12.226 5 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the work [of rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his rivals, this work was taken from him...
    MAng1 12.226 6 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the work [of rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his rivals, this work was taken from him...
    MAng1 12.228 5 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously at this painful work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was unable to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
    MAng1 12.228 12 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    MAng1 12.229 13 In sculpture, [Michelangelo's] greatest work is the statue of Moses in the Church of Pietro in Vincolo, in Rome.
    MAng1 12.230 12 [The Sistine Chapel ceiling] is [Michelangelo's] capital work painted in fresco.
    MAng1 12.231 7 [Michelangelo] did not live to complete the work [St. Peter's];...
    MAng1 12.232 24 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.
    MAng1 12.233 1 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    MAng1 12.234 20 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
    MAng1 12.235 8 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.235 15 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied. His heroic stipulation with the Pope was worthy of the man and the work.
    MAng1 12.235 16 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward...
    MAng1 12.236 9 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
    MAng1 12.237 26 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle, that his work might be lighted and his hands at liberty.
    MAng1 12.242 8 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    Milt1 12.247 1 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
    Milt1 12.247 8 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...
    Milt1 12.253 9 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work...
    ACri 12.296 1 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite...
    ACri 12.305 9 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty will not come to order...
    MLit 12.324 22 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.
    WSL 12.348 15 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.
    Pray 12.352 20 ...O my Father, thou visitest me in my work...
    Pray 12.355 14 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.
    AgMs 12.359 6 These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer], for his have done his own work and ours too.
    PPr 12.381 3 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.
    PPr 12.381 18 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation to the workman that he shall respect the work and not the wages;...
    PPr 12.382 9 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...but by doing unweariedly the particular work we were born to do.
    PPr 12.385 25 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.
    Let 12.398 15 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it.
    Let 12.399 3 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work...
    Let 12.402 6 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.
    Let 12.402 23 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...
    Let 12.403 18 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...
    Let 12.403 23 Apathies and total want of work...are like seasickness...

work, v. (143)

    Nat 1.13 9 All the parts [of nature] incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man.
    Nat 1.14 18 A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work.
    Nat 1.24 12 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man...
    AmS 1.95 12 I...take my place in the ring, to suffer and to work...
    AmS 1.100 8 ...always we are invited to work;...
    AmS 1.115 19 ...we will work with our own hands;...
    DSA 1.125 5 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity;...
    LE 1.177 5 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...rob it of its almightiness by failing to work with it.
    LE 1.177 21 [The scholar] must work with men in houses...
    MN 1.201 2 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.218 8 Talent...goes to the soul only for power to work.
    MR 1.250 14 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    MR 1.253 23 It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
    LT 1.276 24 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man, which will work best the more it is trusted;...
    LT 1.282 23 We are so sharp-sighted that we can neither work nor think...
    Con 1.301 16 ...no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements [Conservatism and Reform] do not work...
    Con 1.306 23 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us, and we will give you a piece of bread.
    Tran 1.351 17 If I cannot work, at least I need not lie.
    SR 2.59 19 All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this.
    SR 2.77 4 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SR 2.89 22 In the Will work and acquire...
    Comp 2.104 10 The soul strives amain to live and work through all things.
    Comp 2.109 21 Who doth not work shall not eat.
    Comp 2.121 11 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth, but... it cannot work for it is not.
    Comp 2.121 12 [Nothing, Falsehood] cannot work any good; it cannot work any harm.
    Comp 2.123 13 ...Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
    SL 2.136 8 Why should all virtue work in one and the same way?
    Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men's] is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions.
    Hsm1 2.262 5 ...the day never shines in which this element [heroism] may not work.
    Hsm1 2.262 25 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    OS 2.284 26 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live, work and live...
    Cir 2.307 5 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their quality and according to their quantity;...
    Mrs1 3.128 14 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.153 18 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.
    Nat2 3.173 17 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    Pol1 3.214 5 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often...work together for a time to one end.
    Pol1 3.219 8 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
    NR 3.236 24 Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work it how he may;...
    NER 3.283 17 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
    NER 3.283 19 Work, [the Law] saith to man, in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work...
    UGM 4.21 14 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    SwM 4.94 18 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].
    SwM 4.103 23 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...his faculties work with astronomic punctuality...
    MoS 4.172 18 ...neither is [the wise skeptic] fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted;...
    MoS 4.186 8 ...let [a man] learn that he is here, not to work but to be worked upon;...
    ShP 4.194 3 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...
    GoW 4.279 10 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says; I breathe and work for man;...
    ET3 5.38 17 ...there is no hour in the whole year when one cannot work [in England].
    ET4 5.63 14 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing:--we must work our fists well;...
    ET10 5.158 11 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    ET11 5.183 23 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England works for them...
    ET11 5.196 19 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty. Who now will work and dare, will rule.
    ET13 5.226 17 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
    F 6.11 21 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim and a complete apparatus to work it out, all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.19 1 ...not less work the laws of repression...
    F 6.39 15 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    Pow 6.73 9 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in books to read;...
    Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can work on the soil...
    Wsp 6.203 8 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.213 15 ...we are...not to work, but to be worked upon;...
    Wsp 6.233 24 [The faithful student] shall work in the dark, work against failure...
    Wsp 6.236 25 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...
    Bty 6.296 1 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...
    Ill 6.320 17 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    Ill 6.320 19 We must work and affirm, but we have no guess of the value of what we say or do.
    Ill 6.323 8 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    Civ 7.30 3 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Civ 7.30 20 Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...
    Art2 7.42 12 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers, and he is no longer free. But if we work within this limit, she yields us all her strength.
    Art2 7.48 24 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak...
    Elo1 7.98 7 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element...will and must work;...
    Farm 7.152 2 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth works faster for him than he can work for himself...
    WD 7.172 6 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
    Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board. So is it with books, for the most part; they work no redemption in us.
    Suc 7.293 2 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.
    Suc 7.293 6 It is enough if you work in the right direction.
    OA 7.319 26 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    OA 7.326 18 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who...work for him when he sleeps.
    OA 7.333 7 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...
    PI 8.34 3 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    PI 8.46 13 Sailors can work better for their yo-heave-o.
    PI 8.67 11 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...
    SA 8.85 7 ...work and starve a little longer.
    Insp 8.273 22 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass;...
    Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man, in whatever direction he work... considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Imtl 8.342 7 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Dem1 10.23 14 Just as [the so-called fortunate man's] eye and hand work exactly together...so the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within his sphere will follow.
    Aris 10.51 11 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    PerF 10.74 27 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.83 23 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...
    PerF 10.84 15 Things work to their ends, not to yours...
    Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
    Edc1 10.138 27 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes, how to work it...
    Edc1 10.147 18 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
    Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...
    Edc1 10.159 4 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.
    Supl 10.169 27 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    SovE 10.189 7 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to...work in the present moment,-the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.190 1 ...all the instincts of man, good and bad, work...
    SovE 10.202 6 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our hands work in a small knot of affairs.
    Schr 10.279 1 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents...come to work for ostentation, they cannot serve him.
    Schr 10.286 14 [The scholar] is to know that in the last resort he is not here to work, but to be worked upon.
    EzRy 10.385 24 Trained in this [New England] church, and very well qualified by his natural talent to work in it, it was never out of [Ezra Ripley' s] mind.
    Carl 10.492 14 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    LS 11.14 19 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    EWI 11.103 24 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen...
    EWI 11.104 5 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.104 7 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
    War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast societies of men...
    ACiv 11.297 10 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work...
    ACiv 11.299 6 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    ACiv 11.310 6 ...ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men...
    EPro 11.318 27 The acts of good governors work a geometrical ratio...
    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    FRep 11.530 13 The revolution [in America] is...the eternal effervescence of Nature. It never did not work.
    FRep 11.540 1 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    PLT 12.30 16 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.
    PLT 12.30 18 Absolutely speaking, I can only work for myself.
    PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who...delights to unfold and work it...
    PLT 12.34 5 Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to see that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it.
    II 12.68 27 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    II 12.84 10 ...men...always work in society with great loss of power.
    II 12.85 27 Work and learn in evil days...
    Mem 12.90 3 Memory is a primary and fundamental faculty, without which none other can work;...
    CInt 12.117 27 Society...exaggerates the merits of those who work to vulgar ends.
    CInt 12.121 14 Do you imagine that a lie will nourish and work like a truth?
    CInt 12.122 18 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done...
    Bost 12.196 6 ...the young farmers and mechanics, who work all summer in the field or shop, in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.202 23 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will work and watch and rally...
    MAng1 12.226 26 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.228 24 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.
    MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    MLit 12.311 5 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society...
    MLit 12.312 14 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America. And thus...does an original genius work and spread himself.
    WSL 12.343 24 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened, which he values as the element in which genius may work, [Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    PPr 12.381 9 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...
    PPr 12.387 1 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that...
    Let 12.394 12 [The correspondents] are willing to work, so it be with friends.
    Trag 12.413 2 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?

work-bench, n. [workbench,] (3)

    Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband] builds a work-bench...
    II 12.82 26 His workbench [a man] finds everywhere...
    II 12.82 27 ...[a man's] workbench is home, education, power and patron.

work-day, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.155 27 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...show themselves to him in their work-day trim...

worked, v. (31)

    Con 1.310 2 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Hist 2.11 18 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...to ends to which he himself should also have worked, the problem is solved;...
    MoS 4.186 8 ...let [a man] learn that he is here, not to work but to be worked upon;...
    ShP 4.191 5 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
    GoW 4.289 26 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years...
    ET1 5.6 7 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
    ET3 5.40 8 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
    ET5 5.90 13 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh, Romilly, are soon worked to death.
    ET6 5.106 15 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET11 5.177 7 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET11 5.197 2 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and so has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET18 5.306 24 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England], that it worked well...
    Wsp 6.213 15 ...we are...not to work, but to be worked upon;...
    CbW 6.262 14 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use...
    Clbs 7.228 11 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold, to be worked up at leisure in the useful arts of life,--is a wonderful relief.
    Suc 7.296 27 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which the whole empire of matter is worked.
    SA 8.87 4 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    MoL 10.243 5 All the world took off their coats and worked in shirt-sleeves [in California].
    Schr 10.286 14 [The scholar] is to know that in the last resort he is not here to work, but to be worked upon.
    GSt 10.505 11 When one remembers...the societies [George Stearns] worked with...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    EWI 11.110 27 ...every [West Indian] slave was worked by the whip.
    EWI 11.111 7 [The West Indian slave] was worked sixteen hours...
    EWI 11.117 2 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...
    FSLN 11.222 23 [Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
    JBS 11.278 17 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    ALin 11.331 27 ...it turned out that [Lincoln]...worked easily.
    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...
    ACri 12.292 11 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    MLit 12.322 23 ...radical, painter, composer,-all worked for [Goethe]...
    MLit 12.326 19 [Goethe]...worked always to astonish...
    EurB 12.371 2 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public. It seems as if the same vice had worked in poetry.

worker, n. (8)

    NMW 4.228 25 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass, in iron...
    ET5 5.74 13 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically, one to represent the worker and the other the enjoyer.
    ET5 5.90 15 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker...
    ALin 11.331 26 ...it turned out that [Lincoln] was a great worker;...
    ALin 11.331 27 A good worker is so rare;...
    Koss 11.400 5 This country of workingmen greets in you [Kossuth] a worker.
    FRO2 11.489 2 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.
    CInt 12.123 5 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful;...

workers, n. (3)

    ET5 5.74 11 ...I doubt not, the [English] nobles are of both tribes [Norman and Saxon], and the workers of both...
    Ctr 6.154 27 How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    LLNE 10.366 11 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it not, and it of course fell to be done by the few religious workers.

workest, v. (1)

    Art1 2.361 24 What, old mole! workest thou in the earth so fast?

worketh, v. (2)

    DSA 1.122 26 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere...
    OS 2.297 4 ...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...

work-house, n. [workhouse,] (2)

    Gts 3.159 20 ...[flowers] are like music heard out of a work-house.
    ET10 5.158 18 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse.

working, adj. (27)

    Tran 1.355 16 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    YA 1.386 9 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...put up his sign-board...Mr. Johnson, Working king.
    Mrs1 3.128 16 The class of power, the working heroes...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    NMW 4.239 6 There have been many working kings...
    ET3 5.38 25 ...England has all the materials of a working country except wood.
    ET5 5.76 26 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET5 5.82 2 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan, a working machine...
    ET5 5.82 3 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...a working constitution...
    ET11 5.196 18 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty.
    ET18 5.304 20 The English mind turns every abstraction it can receive into a portable utensil, or a working institution.
    Pow 6.80 3 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent.
    Pow 6.80 5 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men...
    Ctr 6.131 23 ...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias, sacrificing his symmetry to his working power.
    Wsp 6.225 23 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    CbW 6.259 23 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    CbW 6.265 21 ...hope puts us in a working mood...
    Elo1 7.75 22 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    Boks 7.188 2 That book is good/ Which puts me in a working mood./
    OA 7.321 23 ...knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands;...
    Res 8.138 22 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am...put into a genial and working temper;...
    Insp 8.296 4 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
    Aris 10.44 26 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Supl 10.165 10 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...
    FSLN 11.243 9 I [Robert Winthrop] go then for such parties and opinions as have provided me with a working apparatus.
    RBur 11.442 10 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    PLT 12.13 9 Metaphysics...must be the observations of a working man on working men;...

working, n. (6)

    Civ 7.25 2 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    LLNE 10.355 16 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...
    FRep 11.525 4 Faults in the working appear in our system, as in all...
    PLT 12.13 11 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    PLT 12.21 6 Wonderful is [thoughts'] working and relation each to each.
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent, selfish working for private ends...

working, v. (66)

    Nat 1.22 25 ...[the intellectual and the active powers] are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals;...
    Nat 1.31 10 [This imagery] is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
    Nat 1.40 9 Man is never weary of working [nature] up.
    LE 1.180 20 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in...working off a stint of mechanical day-labor...
    Tran 1.331 17 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
    Tran 1.338 13 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
    YA 1.364 17 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the working of mines...
    YA 1.373 12 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation;...
    YA 1.374 22 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    SR 2.47 19 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was...working through their hands...
    SR 2.60 24 ...there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works;...
    SR 2.70 22 I see the same law working in nature for conservation and growth.
    Art1 2.363 17 ...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Mrs1 3.123 27 [The name gentleman] describes a man...working after untaught methods.
    Mrs1 3.128 7 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...they are working, not triumphing.
    NER 3.252 3 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare...their independence of their colleagues, and their impatience of the methods whereby they were working.
    PPh 4.52 26 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    NMW 4.229 20 This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is working with and what is the product.
    ET4 5.56 13 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump; the working in and out of port, have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET5 5.92 17 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...
    ET10 5.160 7 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...working night and day everlastingly, the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET12 5.207 19 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    F 6.31 10 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    Pow 6.73 7 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Wth 6.94 9 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could.
    Bhr 6.191 3 We parade our nobilities in poems and orations, instead of working them up into happiness.
    CbW 6.262 27 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    Bty 6.288 23 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
    Art2 7.41 1 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.52 12 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
    Farm 7.142 18 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working.
    WD 7.178 8 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    Suc 7.284 20 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
    Suc 7.293 18 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector.
    OA 7.336 6 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.16 3 Walking, working or talking, the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.34 22 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SA 8.103 12 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what...with an eye always to the working of the thing...
    Res 8.142 26 We are working the new Atlantic telegraph.
    PC 8.213 10 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    PC 8.213 12 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy, working as hard and as successfully as Newton...
    PC 8.230 3 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PerF 10.85 22 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends...
    PerF 10.85 23 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven always succors us in working for these.
    Chr2 10.113 20 ...whoever feels any love or skill for ethical studies may safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
    Edc1 10.137 21 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper promise...
    Supl 10.177 22 ...the Orientals excel...in working in gold...
    SlHr 10.445 11 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression, standing and working as he did on so common a ground.
    EWI 11.130 20 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.135 16 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was achieved by plain means of plain men, working not under a leader, but under a sentiment.
    FSLC 11.210 17 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLC 11.210 19 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton, whether the working out this race by Irish and Germans, none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...working on a long future and on permanent interests...
    ALin 11.330 13 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...Kentuckian born, working on a farm...
    ALin 11.331 23 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent in working out the sum for himself;...
    PLT 12.4 19 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.25 12 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.30 16 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.
    II 12.74 26 ...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a mystery...
    II 12.82 25 [A man] takes delight in working, not in having wrought.
    CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    CL 12.146 8 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...and his method of working is no less beautiful than the result.
    ACri 12.290 5 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style, the power of working up all his experience into heaven and hell; also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.298 22 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    MLit 12.321 26 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man working in a very different and peculiar spirit...

working-days, n. (1)

    ET19 5.310 26 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days...

workingmen, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.146 9 Some men are made for...missionaries, bearers of despatches, as others are for farmers and workingmen.
    Koss 11.400 4 This country of workingmen greets in you [Kossuth] a worker.

working-plan, n. (2)

    Schr 10.277 7 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
    II 12.72 2 No practical rules for the poem, no working-plan was ever drawn up.

workings, n. (1)

    Res 8.139 9 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;... and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings.

workman, n. (20)

    MN 1.209 10 ...the tools run away with the workman...
    Cir 2.305 15 Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be.
    ET10 5.157 10 An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European; or, his life as a workman is three lives.
    F 6.33 26 [Steam] was the workman [Fulton and Watt] were in search of.
    Wth 6.92 4 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.116 15 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
    Wsp 6.225 11 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Wsp 6.225 12 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    CbW 6.259 22 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    Farm 7.138 1 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Suc 7.294 11 The good workman never says, There, that will do;...
    PC 8.230 21 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the workman and to his child;...
    Insp 8.272 2 ...every earnest workman...knows some favorable conditions for his task.
    Insp 8.276 16 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no use that your engine is made like a watch,-that you are a good workman, and know how to drive it, if there is no coal.
    Imtl 8.334 4 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Edc1 10.157 8 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it...
    ACiv 11.298 9 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil?
    II 12.83 12 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.
    EurB 12.371 19 [Jonson's beauty] is a natural manly grace of a robust workman.
    PPr 12.381 18 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation to the workman that he shall respect the work and not the wages;...

Workman, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.194 18 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...

workmen, n. (12)

    LE 1.163 5 ...in the workmen...you meet...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    YA 1.385 13 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    Hist 2.29 6 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
    Pt1 3.20 7 ...workmen, work, and tools...all are emblems;...
    ET5 5.84 27 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
    ET18 5.302 25 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what cunning workmen...
    Civ 7.32 1 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    OA 7.321 25 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
    Edc1 10.149 14 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
    PLT 12.61 15 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind guides and thriftless workmen...
    Bost 12.208 26 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what... skilful workmen...

Works and Days [Hesiod], n. (1)

    WD 7.167 10 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...

works, n. (198)

    Nat 1.3 19 Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
    Nat 1.22 3 A virtuous man is in unison with [nature's] works...
    Nat 1.23 19 ...the works of nature are innumerable and all different...
    Nat 1.24 13 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
    DSA 1.120 19 These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages.
    LE 1.171 4 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    LE 1.172 23 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other;...
    MN 1.192 11 There is in each of these works an act of invention...
    MN 1.211 22 [This ecstatic state] respects...art, and not works of art;...
    MR 1.234 11 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world; he finds himself excluded from all lucrative works;...
    MR 1.243 6 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others...the possession of works of art.
    MR 1.243 8 ...he who can create works of art needs not collect them.
    LT 1.272 1 Is there a necessity that the works of man should be sordid?
    Tran 1.353 15 So little skill enters into these works...that it really signifies little what we do...
    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works easily imitated here...
    YA 1.373 15 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
    YA 1.379 17 Our part is plainly...to conspire with the new works of new days.
    Hist 2.3 12 Of the works of this [universal] mind history is the record.
    Hist 2.15 27 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    Hist 2.17 3 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    SR 2.46 1 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
    SR 2.52 27 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world...
    SR 2.77 21 [Prayer] is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.
    Comp 2.95 19 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day...
    SL 2.137 15 All our manual labor and works of strength...are done by dint of continual falling...
    SL 2.146 25 ...Aristotle said of his works, They are published and not published.
    SL 2.152 26 A like Nemesis presides over all intellectual works.
    SL 2.154 20 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works;...
    Prd1 2.229 11 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Hsm1 2.256 27 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together, though to the eyes of mankind at large they wear a stately and solemn garb of works and influences.
    OS 2.276 9 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...
    OS 2.289 7 The soul is...wiser than any of its works.
    OS 2.289 14 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Cir 2.322 3 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion.
    Int 2.325 19 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as...of its works...
    Int 2.340 11 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works...
    Int 2.340 20 The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works.
    Art1 2.351 4 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts...
    Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
    Art1 2.358 9 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Art1 2.359 20 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    Art1 2.364 13 ...in the works of our plastic arts...creation is driven into a corner.
    Art1 2.365 13 All works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances.
    Art1 2.368 21 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Art1 2.368 23 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Pt1 3.19 4 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading;...
    Pt1 3.41 2 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.56 18 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us (and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.69 9 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
    Chr1 3.89 16 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    Chr1 3.103 8 We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only measured by its works.
    Nat2 3.174 19 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
    Nat2 3.179 12 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes...
    NER 3.267 12 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union]...
    UGM 4.3 17 ...[great men's] works and effigies are in our houses...
    UGM 4.3 23 We travel into foreign parts to find [the great man's] works...
    UGM 4.25 15 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism and enable us to see other people and their works.
    PPh 4.41 10 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.53 12 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course...
    PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain earnestness...
    PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature.
    PPh 4.69 23 [Plato] has the same regard to [wisdom] as the source of excellence in works of art.
    SwM 4.99 22 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe to examine mines and smelting works.
    SwM 4.99 26 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    SwM 4.100 7 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...
    SwM 4.100 27 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
    SwM 4.101 26 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    SwM 4.105 23 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books], but they will reward him who can. His theologic works are valuable to illustrate these.
    SwM 4.110 23 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    SwM 4.110 25 ...[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number;...
    SwM 4.111 1 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English...
    SwM 4.126 1 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood.
    SwM 4.136 17 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon, concerning faith alone and works alone, intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    SwM 4.141 3 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    MoS 4.151 1 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
    MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes, so that the works appear heavy and faulty.
    MoS 4.178 23 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works...
    MoS 4.179 2 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours. But what are these cares and works the better?
    ShP 4.201 5 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks...
    ShP 4.204 8 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing, and the translation of his works by Wieland and Schlegel, that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ShP 4.207 24 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age, which sees the works and asks in vain for a history.
    NMW 4.241 1 The principal works that have survived [Napoleon] are his magnificent roads.
    GoW 4.270 15 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    GoW 4.277 15 I have no design to enter into any analysis of [Goethe's] numerous works.
    GoW 4.288 5 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
    GoW 4.288 27 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
    ET5 5.96 26 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    ET5 5.100 6 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET5 5.100 14 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...
    ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...
    ET11 5.188 26 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind, engaged by their pride and wealth to this function. Yet there were other works for British dukes to do.
    ET13 5.215 26 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...works to which the key is lost...
    ET14 5.232 14 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    ET16 5.274 3 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
    ET18 5.304 5 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits; first, in works for the irrigation of the peninsula...
    Pow 6.69 27 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.
    Wth 6.96 13 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
    Ctr 6.147 8 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...
    Wsp 6.204 5 Nature has self-poise in all her works;...
    CbW 6.264 8 [Health] is more essential than talent, even in the works of talent.
    Bty 6.288 25 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
    Bty 6.296 3 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Civ 7.30 15 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
    Civ 7.30 24 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence.
    Art2 7.39 3 ...from its first to its last works, Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.39 19 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    Art2 7.41 3 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
    Art2 7.41 13 ...Nature tyrannizes over our works.
    Art2 7.42 10 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
    Art2 7.43 1 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
    Art2 7.47 21 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.48 27 ...[the artist] is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts...
    Art2 7.51 8 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive.
    Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    Art2 7.51 20 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Art2 7.56 15 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
    DL 7.130 17 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
    WD 7.166 25 Works and days were offered us, and we took works.
    WD 7.166 26 Works and days were offered us, and we took works.
    WD 7.167 22 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is adapted to all meridians by adding the ethics of works and of days.
    WD 7.174 21 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    WD 7.182 1 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing.
    WD 7.185 6 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
    WD 7.185 8 ...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 7.207 19 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Clbs 7.236 9 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
    OA 7.321 18 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    OA 7.328 18 ...age...finishes its works...
    OA 7.331 5 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age...
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these.
    PI 8.39 22 We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating.
    PI 8.50 18 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.72 1 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
    SA 8.102 16 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools, of public grounds, works of taste and refinement.
    Elo2 8.117 9 [The orator] is put together...like a locomotive just finished at the Tredegar works.
    Elo2 8.131 18 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    QO 8.193 11 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
    QO 8.198 5 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light; this idea of the authorship controlling our appreciation of the works themselves.
    PC 8.214 3 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names more distant...
    Insp 8.275 12 There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'T is the doctrine of faith over works.
    Imtl 8.338 6 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be...in the great style of his works.
    PerF 10.75 23 [Labor] is...in works of safety, of delight, of wrath, of science.
    PerF 10.79 12 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    Chr2 10.91 3 Morals respects...that which all men agree to honor as...good will and good works.
    Supl 10.176 24 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    SovE 10.191 26 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment: the house, the works, the persons, the days, the weathers-all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    Schr 10.268 7 I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies growing out of your personal character.
    Schr 10.284 22 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
    Plu 10.293 4 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch... whose history is so easily gathered from his works...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.296 22 M. Octave Greard...has...constructed from the works of Plutarch himself his true biography.
    Plu 10.317 24 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    LLNE 10.335 1 There was that finish about this person [Everett]...which distinguishes every piece of genius from the works of talent...
    LLNE 10.335 4 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    LLNE 10.339 3 ...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.
    MMEm 10.409 26 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
    LS 11.9 18 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
    LS 11.20 6 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses, a moving provocation to works like his...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    SMC 11.373 25 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg.
    EdAd 11.385 3 Where [in America] are the works of the imagination...
    ChiE 11.470 3 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
    FRO1 11.480 6 It is only by good works...that worship finds expression.
    FRO2 11.485 18 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.
    FRep 11.511 21 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works...
    PLT 12.63 5 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
    II 12.68 7 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    II 12.71 18 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
    II 12.80 14 Why should we be...the victims of our own works...
    II 12.81 12 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought, and thereby secured to their several works.
    CL 12.161 2 ...in all works of human art there is deduction to be made for blunder and falsehood.
    CL 12.164 2 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    Bost 12.185 10 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    MAng1 12.215 6 [Michelangelo] accomplished extraordinary works;...
    MAng1 12.215 10 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.218 16 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
    MAng1 12.222 20 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to...the works of Canova.
    MAng1 12.222 25 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    MAng1 12.222 27 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    MAng1 12.224 5 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
    MAng1 12.225 19 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
    MAng1 12.229 7 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works...
    MAng1 12.232 16 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    MAng1 12.239 4 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
    MAng1 12.239 21 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    Milt1 12.247 6 ...new editions of [Milton's] works, and new compilations of his life, were published.
    Milt1 12.250 3 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of [Milton's] works.
    Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica...the most splendid of his prose works.
    Milt1 12.256 21 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.
    Milt1 12.259 13 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio;...
    MLit 12.312 17 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times.
    MLit 12.318 17 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    MLit 12.321 23 The soul is...wiser than any of its works.
    MLit 12.326 6 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...
    PPr 12.388 6 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    Trag 12.411 24 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

Works, n. (1)

    Tran 1.339 20 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made...preachers of Faith against the preachers of Works;...

Works [Plutarch], n. (2)

    Plu 10.294 24 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.294 27 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.

works, v. (104)

    Nat 1.53 11 ...[My passion] fears not policy, that heretic,/ That works on leases of short numbered hours/...
    Nat 1.72 10 [Man] works on the world with his understanding alone.
    Nat 1.72 12 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man...
    AmS 1.105 26 The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.
    Tran 1.339 3 Nature...ever works and advances...
    YA 1.379 5 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    YA 1.379 9 This beneficent tendency, omnipotent without violence, exists and works.
    SR 2.60 24 ...there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works;...
    SR 2.70 2 Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is.
    SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...works miracles;...
    SL 2.129 5 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Sole and self-commanded works/...
    SL 2.137 11 Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways.
    Lov1 2.169 11 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and works a revolution in his mind and body;...
    Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    Prd1 2.222 13 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that it is surface and not centre where it works.
    Hsm1 2.251 10 Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind...
    Hsm1. 2.252 20 ...the little man...works in [the world] so headlong and believing...
    OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    OS 2.275 1 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works...
    Exp 3.74 9 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe. Shall we describe this cause as that which works directly?
    Exp 3.83 20 The effect is deep and secular as the cause. It works on periods in which mortal lifetime is lost.
    Chr1 3.93 25 [Character] works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations.
    NR 3.234 11 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all points...
    NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful which works over our heads and under our feet.
    SwM 4.104 20 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    ShP 4.192 18 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.
    GoW 4.261 4 I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
    GoW 4.264 4 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works...
    ET4 5.48 13 ...whilst race works immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces.
    ET5 5.76 13 The Saxon works after liking...
    ET5 5.88 8 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with blinders.
    ET10 5.157 10 [The Englishman] works fast.
    ET11 5.183 24 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England works for them...
    ET14 5.237 5 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    F 6.31 21 The friendly power works on the same rules in the next farm and the next planet.
    F 6.38 21 Life works both voluntarily and supernaturally in its neighborhood.
    Pow 6.54 1 A cultivated man...is the end to which nature works...
    Pow 6.58 12 The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...works early and late...
    Wsp 6.215 6 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which works without means...
    Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
    CbW 6.250 19 Nature works very hard...
    CbW 6.262 18 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations;...
    CbW 6.264 15 Genius works in sport...
    Civ 7.27 14 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam. How awkward! at what disadvantage he works!
    Art2 7.43 17 ...in each [of the fine arts] the creating intellect is crippled in some degree by the stuff on which it works.
    Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...works actively in all directions...
    Elo1 7.90 3 ...nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    Farm 7.141 13 The man that works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
    Farm 7.143 6 Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
    Farm 7.143 10 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all.
    Farm 7.144 9 The earth works for [the farmer];...
    Farm 7.144 18 The air works for [the farmer].
    Farm 7.145 19 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works.
    Farm 7.146 8 Water works in masses...
    Farm 7.152 2 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth works faster for him than he can work for himself...
    Farm 7.152 3 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth...works for him when he is asleep...
    WD 7.161 13 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first, and now, through man, works them.
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Boks 7.203 18 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...
    QO 8.196 21 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times, but never works as well under his own name.
    Insp 8.295 23 Only our newest knowledge works as a source of inspiration and thought...
    Grts 8.308 7 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws...
    Imtl 8.334 19 ...the naturalist works not for himself, but for the believing mind...
    Dem1 10.12 27 Nature never works like a conjuror...
    Dem1 10.19 19 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle, which chooses favorites and works in the dark for their behoof;...
    PerF 10.76 9 ...[man] walks and works by the aid of gravitation;...
    PerF 10.88 5 ...the cause of right for which we labor...works in long periods...
    Chr2 10.91 14 It was for good, it is to good, that all works.
    Chr2 10.120 26 [Character's] methods are subtle, it works without means.
    Edc1 10.135 16 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself...
    SovE 10.183 17 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...
    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 10.188 4 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SovE 10.199 23 The one miracle which God works evermore is in Nature...
    MoL 10.249 23 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...until it reaches the masses, and works revolutions.
    War 11.166 7 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right.
    FSLC 11.200 11 ...the Nemesis works underneath again.
    FSLC 11.203 27 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.
    FSLN 11.218 2 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    JBB 11.269 2 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery, and for that reason, as a patriot, he works for its abolition.
    ACiv 11.299 7 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later, nay, works badly...
    ACiv 11.304 23 [The Southerner's] laborer works for him at home...
    ACiv 11.310 5 Nature works through her appointed elements;...
    EPro 11.318 22 The virtues of a good magistrate...because Nature works with rectitude, seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    SMC 11.353 5 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship, and south is north. The storm of war works the like miracle on men.
    SMC 11.362 10 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
    CPL 11.503 9 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic. Music works this miracle for those who have a good ear;...
    FRep 11.515 12 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for, and the mainspring that works daily urges them to hazard all...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.525 23 Nature works in immense time...
    PLT 12.5 2 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus;...
    PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
    PLT 12.35 19 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    PLT 12.58 19 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop...
    II 12.68 17 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being;...
    II 12.71 23 The poet works to an end above his will...
    II 12.83 2 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
    Mem 12.101 22 ...the Past will not sleep, it works still.
    CInt 12.123 6 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works by shifts, by compromise...
    CInt 12.123 18 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys, it works for show, and for the shop...
    CL 12.151 11 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster...
    WSL 12.345 21 ...[character] works directly and without means...
    Let 12.404 19 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...

workshop, n. (3)

    Art1 2.359 23 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist...
    Clbs 7.227 27 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
    Schr 10.273 23 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil, he will fear to go by a workshop;...

workshops, n. (1)

    Comp 2.109 10 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...

work-tables, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 17 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...

work-yard, n. [workyard,] (3)

    Nat 1.13 3 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    AmS 1.98 14 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
    Mrs1 3.138 22 Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

work-yards, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.218 16 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses.

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