Worn to Writings

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

worn, adj. (2)

    Int 2.328 3 In the most worn...self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...
    Edc1 10.137 10 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.

worn, v. (12)

    UGM 4.20 16 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long.
    ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
    Wsp 6.237 19 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Farm 7.153 6 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
    Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Insp 8.281 26 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Grts 8.312 7 The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be worn;...
    PerF 10.68 1 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    MMEm 10.428 26 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she... went out to ride in it, on horseback, in her mountain roads, until it was worn out.
    Wom 11.417 19 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    CInt 12.130 6 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of Nature is less, the chemical power worn out.
    MAng1 12.234 26 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...

worn-out, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 3 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...

worry, v. (2)

    SA 8.98 14 Never worry people with your contritions...
    SMC 11.361 6 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me...

worrying, v. (2)

    NER 3.253 15 [Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of churches and meetings for public worship;...
    MMEm 10.419 1 Took a momentary revenge on--for worrying me [Mary Moody Emerson].

worse, adj. (73)

    AmS 1.84 8 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
    AmS 1.101 10 Worse yet, [the scholar] must accept...poverty and solitude.
    AmS 1.104 17 So is the danger a danger still; so is the fear worse.
    MN 1.192 26 Let there be worse cotton and better men.
    Con 1.325 27 ...The law...makes [the intemperate, covetous person] worse the longer it protects him.
    Tran 1.333 11 Mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors.
    YA 1.381 18 [The farmer's condition] seemed a great deal worse, because the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    Comp 2.121 13 [Nothing, Falsehood] is harm inasmuch as it is worse not to be than to be.
    SL 2.148 12 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Cir 2.315 23 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Exp 3.49 4 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me,--neither better nor worse.
    Exp 3.65 21 Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse...
    Exp 3.79 5 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
    Exp 3.85 7 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Mrs1 3.155 13 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse...
    NR 3.227 24 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    NR 3.230 10 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    NER 3.262 4 Our marriage is no worse than our education...
    NER 3.265 26 ...concert is neither better nor worse...than individual force.
    NER 3.278 12 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity.
    UGM 4.4 17 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting... like hills of ants or of fleas,--the more, the worse.
    UGM 4.13 25 If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as it found me, neither better nor worse...
    PNR 4.84 18 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man;...
    SwM 4.103 15 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    MoS 4.165 10 ...nobody can think or say worse of [Montaigne] than he does.
    MoS 4.174 17 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
    NMW 4.254 5 ...worse,--[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    ET4 5.60 16 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy, and worse and worse, every year;...
    F 6.35 26 The first and worse races are dead.
    Wth 6.107 20 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one;...
    Wth 6.115 22 No land is bad, but land is worse.
    Wth 6.122 7 We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
    Ctr 6.132 17 ...worse than the harping on one string, nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.151 9 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...worse rather than better clothes...
    Ctr 6.162 1 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Bhr 6.194 4 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    SS 7.3 24 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl. His consciousness of the fault made it worse.
    SS 7.7 3 'T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    Elo1 7.62 16 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    Elo1 7.62 19 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Elo1 7.74 22 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Elo1 7.76 11 Leaving behind us these pretensions, better or worse, to come a little nearer to the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
    Farm 7.151 2 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing...
    WD 7.164 24 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
    Clbs 7.248 14 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    Comc 8.168 26 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    QO 8.182 8 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages, leaving the worse and saving the better...
    QO 8.183 15 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
    QO 8.188 13 ...[people] quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in the world of truth...
    Edc1 10.127 18 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact that they have worse than no values...
    Supl 10.164 16 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    Supl 10.178 8 Universally, the better gold, the worse man.
    SovE 10.190 26 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men...
    Prch 10.217 6 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    Plu 10.310 14 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just; and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
    MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    MMEm 10.423 10 War is...no worse than the strife with poverty, malice and ignorance.
    EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
    War 11.162 5 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    FSLC 11.196 16 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.
    FSLN 11.227 25 Angry parties went from bad to worse...
    JBB 11.271 20 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision;...
    TPar 11.291 11 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    Wom 11.421 9 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen.
    PLT 12.6 18 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations;...
    ACri 12.288 14 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say;...
    ACri 12.291 17 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
    ACri 12.291 18 ...a man has a right to pass...for a worse man than he is, but not for a better.
    MLit 12.311 4 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which leave no man where they found him, but make him better or worse;...
    Let 12.402 24 It may easily happen...that the times must be worse before they are better.
    Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings.

worse, adv. (4)

    MoS 4.158 2 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing worse in disorganizing.
    ET5 5.84 18 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a commoner.
    Cour 7.258 22 Cowardice...shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind...
    Cour 7.267 2 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies, better or worse dressed...

worse, n. (3)

    YA 1.381 16 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse.
    SR 2.46 14 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;...
    War 11.167 22 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...

worship, n. (55)

    Nat 1.3 19 Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
    Nat 1.61 20 The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
    AmS 1.88 27 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    DSA 1.125 24 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom. - Then he can worship, and be enlarged by his worship;...
    DSA 1.126 2 This [religious] sentiment...successively creates all forms of worship.
    DSA 1.128 11 As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
    DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded;...
    DSA 1.141 3 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    DSA 1.142 25 ...what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    DSA 1.143 19 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship?
    DSA 1.150 4 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    MR 1.240 2 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the worship of his God...
    MR 1.244 7 ...it is...not worship, that costs so much.
    MR 1.245 7 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for worship.
    Tran 1.352 20 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    SR 2.66 20 Whence then this worship of the past?
    SL 2.161 6 We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude.
    OS 2.268 25 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
    Int 2.346 4 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...
    Pt1 3.15 25 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talk with him he holds these at as slight a rate as you. His worship is sympathetic;...
    NER 3.253 16 [Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of churches and meetings for public worship;...
    PPh 4.62 12 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe... returns;...
    SwM 4.145 26 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt, and abandoned himself to his joy and worship.
    ET9 5.147 13 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.219 17 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
    Bty 6.279 22 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Boks 7.200 17 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the worship of the gods...
    Aris 10.34 13 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish of character,-certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.36 23 ...instead of this idolatry, a worship;...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.113 2 The creed, the legend, forms of worship, swiftly decay.
    SovE 10.205 24 Worship is the regard for what is above us.
    SovE 10.206 21 We in America are charged with a great deficiency in worship;...
    Prch 10.222 20 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    Prch 10.222 21 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history, to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...
    Prch 10.237 18 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
    LS 11.13 7 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals...
    LS 11.17 9 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    LS 11.17 11 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    LS 11.17 17 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    HDC 11.31 7 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    HDC 11.46 22 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the care of public worship, the school and the poor;...
    HDC 11.54 5 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.
    HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.
    FSLN 11.244 1 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is...our worship to be declared.
    FRO1 11.479 12 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    FRO1 11.480 4 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church, the pure worship.
    FRO1 11.480 7 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds expression.
    FRO2 11.490 25 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
    PLT 12.14 19 ...the metaphysician...puts himself out of the way of inspiration; loses that which is the miracle and creates the worship.
    PLT 12.56 17 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas.
    CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
    Milt1 12.266 26 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    ACri 12.289 11 ...George Sand finds a whole nation...in which [the Devil] is really the subject of a covert worship.
    PPr 12.384 27 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

Worship, n. (2)

    Pow 6.80 14 I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and Worship.
    Wsp 6.204 24 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture; and its flowering and completion may be described as...Worship.

worship, v. (17)

    Nat 1.74 10 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers...
    AmS 1.86 23 ...when he has learned to worship the soul...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    DSA 1.125 24 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom. - Then he can worship...
    LE 1.182 3 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet...
    MN 1.221 2 ...Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
    SR 2.60 3 We worship [honor] to-day because it is not of to-day.
    Fdsp 2.196 12 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
    Fdsp 2.210 21 Worship [your friend's] superiorities;...
    Prd1 2.230 1 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child.
    OS 2.290 20 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
    Int 2.341 20 [The scholar] must worship truth...
    Exp 3.83 24 I worship with wonder the great Fortune.
    Chr1 3.97 17 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events;...
    Chr1 3.100 10 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...whom [society] cannot let pass in silence but must either worship or hate...he helps;...
    SA 8.105 18 ...[sentimentalists] worship virtue, dear virtue!
    Carl 10.495 12 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    PLT 12.47 16 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.

worshipped, v. (12)

    Nat 1.62 7 ...when man has worshipped him intellectually, the noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
    Hist 2.29 3 The fact teaches [the child] how Belus was worshipped...
    Chr1 3.114 5 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    Mrs1 3.146 19 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.
    Nat2 3.188 3 ...James Naylor once suffered himself to be worshipped as the Christ.
    GoW 4.284 3 [Goethe] has not worshipped the highest unity;...
    Art2 7.56 9 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped.
    Thor 10.478 8 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    Wom 11.406 5 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of women.
    FRO1 11.479 9 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar. The Holy Ghost and the Son of Mary were worshipped...
    II 12.88 21 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;...
    MAng1 12.233 12 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...

worshipper, n. (8)

    DSA 1.137 14 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded...
    MN 1.208 18 Why then goest thou as some Boswell or listening worshipper to this saint or to that?
    SwM 4.106 25 ...[Swedenborg] held...that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
    SwM 4.122 8 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper...is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    ET8 5.135 15 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...
    Bhr 6.173 27 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    Elo2 8.115 10 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    LS 11.17 26 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed and which distracts the mind of the worshipper.

worshippers, n. (4)

    Tran 1.342 7 ...whoso knows...these unsocial worshippers...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Tran 1.354 17 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    QO 8.182 10 ...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.
    MAng1 12.229 17 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf.

worshipping, v. (1)

    LE 1.178 3 ...out of wooing and worshipping;...comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

worships, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 4 How easily these old worships of Moses...domesticate themselves in the mind.

worships, v. (8)

    Fdsp 2.196 8 The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
    OS 2.292 17 The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God;...
    OS 2.296 3 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
    Pt1 3.16 7 It is nature the symbol...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    ET1 5.16 13 [Carlyle] worships a man that will manifest any truth to him.
    DL 7.119 13 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there...the soul worships truth and love...
    Chr2 10.104 11 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity.
    MLit 12.319 7 ...[Byron] worships the accidents of society...

worst, adj. (44)

    AmS 1.89 25 Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.
    DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LT 1.282 21 We find it the worst thing about time that we know not what to do with it.
    Tran 1.353 19 The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    YA 1.389 6 I might not set down our most proclaimed offences as the worst.
    YA 1.389 7 It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.
    Lov1 2.183 12 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women...
    Fdsp 2.199 17 ...what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
    Prd1 2.237 14 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension...
    Art1 2.363 6 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce, which even in its worst estate the soul betrays.
    MoS 4.173 22 I shall take the worst [doubts and negations] I can find, whether I can dispose of them or they of me.
    NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.
    ET2 5.31 21 The worst impediment I have found at sea is the want of light in the cabin.
    ET4 5.64 13 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    ET8 5.133 1 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class, the best and the worst;...
    ET8 5.142 5 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy);...
    ET11 5.191 3 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.
    Pow 6.77 26 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Pow 6.78 2 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    CbW 6.249 11 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Clbs 7.246 24 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men.
    PI 8.69 20 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe...
    Res 8.138 9 A Schopenhauer...teaching that this is the worst of all possible worlds...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    PC 8.232 20 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral. It has had the worst effect on character.
    Chr2 10.117 6 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...
    MoL 10.247 9 The worst times only show [the scholar] how independent he is of times;...
    LLNE 10.354 21 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...
    MMEm 10.418 5 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.
    HDC 11.61 15 The worst feature in the history of those years [of King Philip's War], is, that no man spake for the Indian.
    HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    War 11.160 10 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...
    FSLN 11.230 25 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure...
    AsSu 11.248 12 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
    AsSu 11.251 9 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    AKan 11.256 21 In these calamities under which they suffer, and the worst which threaten them, the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
    SMC 11.371 14 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    RBur 11.439 5 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    FRep 11.534 2 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.
    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.
    ACri 12.292 12 'T is the worst praise you can give a speech that it is as if written.
    PPr 12.379 22 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire...to strip the worst mischiefs of their plausibility.
    PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy...

worst, adv. (1)

    ET13 5.230 1 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...the Gypsy jockey squinted worst of all.

worst, n. (7)

    Nat 1.38 20 What is not good [the foolish] call the worst...
    Con 1.298 5 ...conservatism always has the worst of the argument...
    NER 3.274 14 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.154 27 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    Res 8.138 3 A philosophy which sees only the worst;...dispirits us;...
    PPo 8.238 8 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...rapidly reaching the best and the worst.
    FRO2 11.486 11 ...there is a force always at work to make the best better and the worst good.

worst-assorted, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.316 15 In the worst-assorted connections there is ever some mixture of true marriage.

worsted, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.235 3 [Benedict said] My children may be worsted.

worth, adj. (99)

    Nat 1.33 17 ...A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;...
    AmS 1.102 21 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    DSA 1.120 3 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    MN 1.202 15 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more...
    LT 1.263 14 A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth considering.
    LT 1.290 15 Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are these times or any times worth consideration.
    SR 2.76 12 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SL 2.142 17 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate...
    SL 2.157 18 A man passes for that he is worth.
    SL 2.159 2 A man passes for that he is worth.
    Lov1 2.176 5 ...he touched the secret of the matter who said of love,--All other pleasures are not worth its pains/...
    Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Hsm1 2.254 20 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to be solemn...
    Art1 2.355 13 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that...
    Art1 2.355 19 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying out of gardens.
    Exp 3.57 16 Life is not worth the taking, to do tricks in.
    Exp 3.60 10 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Exp 3.60 14 Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.
    Exp 3.67 24 Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
    Exp 3.84 19 To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.
    NR 3.235 10 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
    NER 3.258 4 The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy;...
    NER 3.279 15 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    PPh 4.65 23 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
    MoS 4.154 19 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.159 16 A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    MoS 4.180 17 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way? When he is convinced, he will be worth the pains.
    ShP 4.205 22 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information. It was well worth the pains that have been taken to procure it.
    ShP 4.217 23 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
    NMW 4.238 17 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering.
    GoW 4.285 17 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much.
    ET1 5.9 25 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET3 5.34 2 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...
    ET5 5.75 16 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor, but not worth possession on other terms.
    ET6 5.112 10 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET14 5.238 22 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.238 25 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    Pow 6.57 11 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it...does not think them worth the exertion which you do.
    Pow 6.70 26 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Wth 6.102 15 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
    Wth 6.103 3 A dollar in Florida is not worth a dollar in Massachusetts.
    Wth 6.103 14 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Wth 6.103 26 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state is more worth, in the hour of his action.
    Wth 6.114 1 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Ctr 6.137 24 No performance is worth loss of geniality.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Ctr 6.162 10 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    CbW 6.249 12 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    CbW 6.272 9 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    Bty 6.290 16 The lesson taught by the study...of antique and of Pre-Raphaelite painting, was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
    Ill 6.318 15 Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
    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;...
    Clbs 7.234 23 ...when we find [good company] it is worth the pursuit...
    Cour 7.270 17 ...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Suc 7.305 24 Every man has a history worth knowing...
    OA 7.314 7 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    OA 7.321 3 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    OA 7.331 11 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore,--long enough to read everything that was worth reading...
    PI 8.1 14 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    Elo2 8.130 26 If [the eloquent man] does not know your fact, he will show that it is not worth the knowing.
    Elo2 8.133 1 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    PC 8.219 3 ...a cultivated laborer is worth many untaught laborers;...
    PC 8.219 5 ...a scientific engineer, with instruments and steam, is worth many hundred men...
    PC 8.219 7 ...Archimedes or Napoleon is worth for labor a thousand thousands...
    PPo 8.254 1 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    Aris 10.29 4 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
    Edc1 10.136 18 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Edc1 10.147 14 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain...that power of performance is worth more than the knowledge.
    Supl 10.166 5 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams...
    Supl 10.172 20 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    Prch 10.232 12 ...these [day's events] are fair tests to try our doctrines by, and see if they are worth anything in life.
    Prch 10.234 18 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    MoL 10.252 27 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering.
    Schr 10.276 5 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    SlHr 10.438 7 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that he was old, and his life was not worth much...
    Thor 10.463 16 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to...
    Thor 10.473 26 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that: It was well worth a visit to California to learn it.
    Thor 10.476 18 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading...
    Thor 10.476 21 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain.
    GSt 10.504 7 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    GSt 10.507 17 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    EWI 11.143 17 [Nature] will only save what is worth saving;...
    AKan 11.262 11 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    JBB 11.272 15 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    EPro 11.319 4 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war, worth its costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.
    HCom 11.345 4 We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and all the lives it has cost;...
    HCom 11.345 6 We see...a new era...worth to the world the lives of all this generation of American men, if they had been demanded.
    Koss 11.398 18 ...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
    Koss 11.398 24 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something;...
    CPL 11.501 18 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
    CL 12.145 19 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
    CW 12.175 5 ...'t is worth remarking...that a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    Bost 12.206 8 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in [Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
    MLit 12.317 20 There are facts on which men of the world superciliously smile, which are worth all their trade and politics;...
    MLit 12.330 26 The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.
    AgMs 12.359 19 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad,-Much, the miller's son,/ There was no inch of his body/ But it was worth a groom./

worth, n. (84)

    Nat 1.11 18 The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
    AmS 1.83 26 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    AmS 1.112 15 This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries.
    DSA 1.130 8 Thus is [Jesus]...the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.
    DSA 1.147 13 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth?
    LE 1.157 25 ...of what worth the world is, and with what emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call of the scholar.
    LE 1.157 26 ...of what worth the world is, and with what emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call of the scholar.
    MR 1.249 2 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man, which will appear at the call of worth...
    LT 1.260 2 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, it characterizes the people.
    Con 1.298 26 Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
    Con 1.310 4 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...the wisdom and the worth did get into parliament...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.312 24 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to draw...to the tilling of the soil.
    Con 1.318 21 ...[the conservative party] goes for availableness in its candidate, not for worth;...
    Con 1.325 3 Wherever there is worth, I shall be greeted.
    YA 1.394 19 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Hist 2.5 24 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    SR 2.61 23 Let a man then know his worth...
    SR 2.62 1 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SL 2.147 12 Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees.
    SL 2.165 23 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world... marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of men;--these all are his...
    Fdsp 2.189 16 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The mill-round of our fate appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./
    Fdsp 2.200 24 Love...is...for the total worth of man.
    Fdsp 2.200 26 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards, but the austerest worth;...
    Chr1 3.98 24 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    Chr1 3.105 11 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
    Mrs1 3.122 21 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
    Mrs1 3.123 10 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    Mrs1 3.153 11 The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.
    Pol1 3.197 23 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.215 19 Everywhere [men] think they get their money's worth, except for [taxes].
    Pol1 3.217 14 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
    Pol1 3.217 22 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    Pol1 3.218 16 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
    SwM 4.129 12 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband;...
    SwM 4.129 14 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love;...
    SwM 4.129 15 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me.
    SwM 4.129 16 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
    SwM 4.129 18 ...I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife. He aspires to a higher worth in another spirit, and is wife or receiver of that influence.
    MoS 4.179 14 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    ShP 4.198 9 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    ET4 5.49 24 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET4 5.57 13 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion. A sparce population gives this high worth to every man.
    ET11 5.193 13 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.
    ET14 5.245 7 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value; the tone of feeling in them makes their chief worth.
    ET14 5.245 20 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics...
    Wth 6.99 27 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Wth 6.104 26 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Ctr 6.146 3 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
    Ctr 6.146 15 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency, as sedulously as with that which gives worth.
    CbW 6.271 18 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Elo1 7.89 15 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and worth.
    DL 7.114 10 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
    DL 7.114 27 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.
    WD 7.159 5 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for twenty days.
    WD 7.166 1 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
    WD 7.166 4 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    WD 7.166 7 What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of mankind?
    WD 7.166 15 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature.
    Suc 7.291 6 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.291 13 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    Suc 7.294 9 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    Suc 7.310 6 To awake in man and to raise the sense of worth...that is the only aim.
    PI 8.11 6 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of my thought, it the real worth.
    QO 8.191 10 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.
    PC 8.234 7 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Dem1 10.25 20 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    Aris 10.32 6 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is...for their universal beauty and worth;...
    Edc1 10.143 11 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust...in your own worth...
    Prch 10.229 11 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Thor 10.475 23 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    Thor 10.477 12 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    LVB 11.90 5 Even in our distant State some good rumor of [the Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
    EWI 11.130 19 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too, of great personal worth... working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.136 26 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so that this cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of worth in England...
    EWI 11.139 22 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons, all who are conscious of no worth in themselves...shudder at the change...
    War 11.174 19 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    AsSu 11.251 25 Let [Charles Sumner] hear that every man of worth in New England loves his virtues;...
    ALin 11.328 15 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    ALin 11.331 13 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash, though they did not begin to know the riches of his worth.
    ALin 11.334 23 It cannot be said there is any exaggeration of [Lincoln's] worth.
    Milt1 12.252 1 ...by his own innate worth this man [Milton] has steadily risen in the world's reverence...
    MLit 12.328 16 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    WSL 12.338 17 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...

worthier, adj. (2)

    OS 2.280 20 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
    Pt1 3.13 6 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...

worthies, n. (3)

    ET10 5.166 13 [England's] worthies are ever surrounded by as good men as themselves;...
    Elo1 7.78 6 It was said of Sir William Pepperell, one of the worthies of New England, that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
    ALin 11.335 23 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.

worthiest, adj. (2)

    OS 2.291 3 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written...
    Grts 8.302 6 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone. This is the worthiest history of the world.

worthily, adv. (2)

    Bhr 6.191 24 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to... treat this part of life more worthily.
    Edc1 10.141 6 ...from [friendship's] revelations we come more worthily into nature.

worthiness, n. (4)

    MR 1.249 1 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    Fdsp 2.212 24 ...love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
    Hsm1 2.254 18 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    Hsm1 2.257 10 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...

worthless, adj. (8)

    Con 1.321 22 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    OS 2.267 22 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless?
    Int 2.329 23 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    NER 3.275 26 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...
    UGM 4.24 5 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    Wth 6.84 4 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    LS 11.21 26 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    HDC 11.67 3 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...

worthlessness, n. (2)

    Pow 6.79 10 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do. Hence the use of drill, and the worthlessness of amateurs to cope with practitioners.
    FSLN 11.232 24 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...

worthy, adj. (46)

    Nat 1.36 14 The understanding...finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene.
    LE 1.155 7 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.155 21 [The scholar's] failures, if he is worthy, are inlets to higher advantages.
    MR 1.245 5 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them...
    LT 1.267 14 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    Tran 1.341 12 [Many intelligent and religious persons] are striking work, and crying out for somewhat worthy to do!
    Tran 1.347 19 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.368 2 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    SL 2.144 20 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door, whilst a thousand persons as worthy go by it, to whom I give no regard.
    SL 2.150 12 Persons approach us...worthy of all wonder for their charms and gifts;...with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.151 16 It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.
    Lov1 2.172 4 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive.
    Cir 2.307 20 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Art1 2.365 21 A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found worthy to declare it, would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    NER 3.285 23 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
    PPh 4.66 10 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    PPh 4.66 11 Those of you who were the worthy ones in the state of ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as you embrace it.
    SwM 4.139 6 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. There is not one who is worthy of my love or hatred.
    MoS 4.172 23 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred;...
    GoW 4.278 15 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    ET4 5.64 14 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst, and worthy of the Anthropophagi.
    ET7 5.125 11 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET11 5.191 1 Of course there is another side to this gorgeous show [of English aristocracy]. Every victory was the defeat of a party only less worthy.
    ET19 5.311 17 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    F 6.29 20 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards;...
    F 6.30 13 A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy...
    Wsp 6.208 14 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.
    Elo1 7.64 14 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    Clbs 7.249 21 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
    OA 7.329 25 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
    OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    Elo2 8.117 22 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.130 6 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
    QO 8.184 3 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    Grts 8.313 19 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Aris 10.42 12 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights, or the most worthy esquires...to be returned.
    Plu 10.317 13 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
    MMEm 10.430 23 ...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy...
    SlHr 10.440 9 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use...
    LS 11.20 9 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    JBB 11.270 5 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    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 12.236 13 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
    Milt1 12.258 19 ...[Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of his fame.
    WSL 12.343 15 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them...

Wortley, Mr., n. (1)

    ET10 5.154 27 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.

wot, v. (2)

    F 6.46 5 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come/...
    Aris 10.29 20 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

Wotton, Henry, n. (4)

    ShP 4.203 7 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare...
    ET6 5.112 23 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England, of whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.
    ET11 5.178 9 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...
    Boks 7.208 4 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also to the times.

would, n. (1)

    II 12.88 14 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should, and not like the moderns, in the weak would.

wound, n. (4)

    Comp 2.118 7 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a dead skin...
    PI 8.14 13 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.
    PI 8.57 25 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound.
    PPr 12.385 8 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

wound, v. (7)

    YA 1.373 24 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    SL 2.139 8 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...
    OS 2.272 7 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures...tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.
    OS 2.291 21 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other and wound themselves!
    MoS 4.156 15 [The skeptic says] Why be an angel before your time? These strings, wound up too high, will snap.
    Schr 10.285 24 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes them...
    MMEm 10.417 26 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that.

wounded, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.117 19 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help; and thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl.
    Lov1 2.186 13 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance. This repairs the wounded affection.
    FRO1 11.480 19 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...

wounded, n. (1)

    SMC 11.369 20 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.

wounded, v. (13)

    Comc 8.163 26 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    SovE 10.183 15 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...
    MoL 10.257 27 I learn with grief...that the noble youth have returned wounded and maimed.
    HDC 11.74 17 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther Blanchard and Jonas Brown...
    HDC 11.74 24 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.
    HDC 11.76 1 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    SMC 11.366 14 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts]...suffered extraordinary losses; Captain Buttrick and one other officer being the only officers in it who were neither killed, wounded nor captured.
    SMC 11.368 23 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks. Seventy men were killed or wounded out of seven companies.
    SMC 11.368 26 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.
    SMC 11.369 11 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men. There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing.
    SMC 11.371 18 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...
    SMC 11.373 5 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels. In this charge, Colonel George L. Prescott was mortally wounded.
    SMC 11.374 2 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.

wounds, n. (5)

    LT 1.279 24 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    Pow 6.61 9 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
    Ctr 6.147 24 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating on the contingencies of wounds...rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Thor 10.478 6 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a physician to the wounds of any soul;...
    Shak1 11.449 2 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.

wove, v. (4)

    ET10 5.158 17 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny, which wove the web of his fortunes.
    Pow 6.81 27 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages.
    Wth 6.84 12 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...
    LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

woven, v. (9)

    LE 1.177 11 The scholar will feel that...the noblest fiction that was ever woven...lies enclosed in human life.
    Exp 3.51 7 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is too finely woven...
    MoS 4.160 19 We want some coat woven of elastic steel...
    ET5 5.92 23 [The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
    WD 7.173 22 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    SA 8.80 21 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
    SA 8.80 22 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners...
    SovE 10.197 19 How came this creation so magically woven that nothing can do me mischief but myself...
    TPar 11.288 5 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.

wrack, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 6 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But spare me when I gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

wrangle, v. (3)

    Hist 2.25 11 ...[Xenophon's army] wrangle with the generals on each new order...
    Plu 10.306 25 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
    MLit 12.327 25 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

wrap, v. (2)

    DSA 1.137 17 We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us, and secure...a solitude that hears not.
    Nat2 3.170 8 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom.

wrapped, v. (7)

    MN 1.217 9 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object...
    Hsm1 2.263 24 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    NER 3.285 10 ...what powers are wrapped up under the coarse mattings of custom...
    MoS 4.155 18 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge...you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.
    MoS 4.155 20 Neither will [the skeptic] be betrayed to a book and wrapped in a gown.
    Insp 8.292 18 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought, hitherto wrapped in our consciousness, detaches itself...
    MMEm 10.414 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been. Loving to shine...anxious, and wrapped in others...

wrapper, n. (1)

    Wom 11.414 26 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground, she is clothed with a wrapper...

wraps, v. (1)

    PPr 12.389 20 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.

wrath, n. (31)

    LT 1.276 16 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...not on a principle, but...on fear, on wrath, and pride.
    Pt1 3.37 27 Our log-rolling...the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men...are yet unsung.
    Exp 3.64 16 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath...
    ET1 5.7 8 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath...
    ET1 5.21 23 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath...
    ET4 5.51 23 Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was the mud of all races.
    ET8 5.134 14 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET8 5.140 19 The wrath of London is not French wrath...
    ET8 5.140 20 The wrath of London is not French wrath...
    Pow 6.63 6 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...to represent its wrath and cupidity at Washington,--let these drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Pow 6.65 13 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.
    Pow 6.66 15 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
    Ctr 6.136 18 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like... dragons of wrath;...
    Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    CbW 6.258 18 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...
    WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    SA 8.86 8 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table,--of wrath, and whining...
    PerF 10.75 23 [Labor] is...in works of safety, of delight, of wrath, of science.
    PerF 10.88 8 Wrath and petulance may have their short success...
    Edc1 10.139 25 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of...love and wrath, with which the game is played;...
    Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...bribes, spies, wrath...
    Supl 10.161 1 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    Schr 10.276 17 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...
    HDC 11.47 22 Wrath and love came up to town-meeting in company.
    FSLN 11.222 17 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    FSLN 11.222 18 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.
    MAng1 12.229 18 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.
    Milt1 12.261 8 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.
    ACri 12.288 25 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took notes...
    Trag 12.412 14 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering.

wrathful, adj. (1)

    PI 8.60 24 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke... through which he could not pass; and this impediment made him so wrathful that it deprived him of speech.

wrathfully, adv. (1)

    ET18 5.301 20 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws...

Wraxall, Nathaniel William, (1)

    ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

wreak, v. (1)

    SR 2.55 19 There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history;...

wreaks, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 11 On him who scorned the world, as he said, the scorned world wreaks its revenge.

wreath, n. (4)

    AmS 1.115 24 The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
    Lov1 2.174 16 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions...is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows.
    UGM 4.10 11 ...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    PI 8.36 24 [The poet's] wreath and robe is to do what he enjoys;...

wreathed, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.398 2 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

wreathing, v. (1)

    SwM 4.112 6 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through an everlasting spiral...

wreaths, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.243 5 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons,/ Drooping oft in wreaths of dread/ Lightning-knotted round his head/...
    ET10 5.161 1 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...
    Boks 7.200 18 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
    Imtl 8.325 19 [The Greek] adorned death, brought wreaths of parsley and laurel;...

Wreaths, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 14 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...

wreck, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    CPL 11.500 27 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.
    Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...

wrecked, v. (1)

    ET11 5.177 1 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.

wreckers, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.203 2 ...whether your community is made...of saints or of wreckers, it coheres in a perfect ball.

wrecks, n. (3)

    SA 8.77 3 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
    LLNE 10.328 1 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week.
    Mem 12.103 1 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

Wren, Christopher, n. (5)

    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    F 6.36 24 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Wren builds it...
    Clbs 7.243 27 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
    Wom 11.410 1 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...

wren, n. (1)

    F 6.38 16 Every creature, wren or dragon, shall make its own lair.

wrenched, v. (1)

    SMC 11.360 5 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business...

wrenches, v. (1)

    CbW 6.258 19 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him, and twists and wrenches our evil to our good.

wrest, v. (1)

    ET7 5.125 25 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.

wrestle, v. (3)

    Int 2.343 27 ...wrestle with [new doctrines]...
    Ill 6.320 24 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    SA 8.81 8 Though the person so clothed [in manners] wrestle with you...he is yet a thousand miles off...

wrestler, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.73 4 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.

wrestling, v. (3)

    Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Ill 6.320 26 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Elo2 8.129 1 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...

wretch, n. (5)

    Chr1 3.115 23 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    SwM 4.94 21 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which...opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
    SwM 4.141 25 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman, benevolent but dyspeptic, into a wretch...
    Suc 7.310 20 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will themselves quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
    Grts 8.315 22 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France, and would help any wretch at a pinch.

wretched, adj. (9)

    MR 1.246 19 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as the... most wretched persons on earth.
    Chr1 3.110 22 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...
    NR 3.228 27 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest, and we continue our mummery to the wretched shaving.
    UGM 4.29 23 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    ET16 5.283 24 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors, for keeping these broad plains a wretched sheep-walk...
    SS 7.14 25 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.
    Res 8.138 25 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming from a wretched garret...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    Pray 12.350 21 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.

wretched, n. (1)

    Aris 10.46 15 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...

wretchedness, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 2 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.

wretches, n. (1)

    UGM 4.31 1 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;--but what for the wretches whom they hire and kill?

wriggling, v. (1)

    Civ 7.22 19 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?

Wright, H. C., n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 13 ...H. C. Wright, Dr. Osgood, William Adams...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

Wright, Peter, n. (1)

    HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.

wring, v. (3)

    ET11 5.181 4 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they... wring from them the last sous.
    LLNE 10.366 24 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...
    JBB 11.272 10 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use than idiots. After the mischance they wring their hands, but they had better never have been born.

wringing, v. (1)

    SL 2.135 10 ...there is no need...of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth;...

wrinkle, n. (2)

    Nat 1.42 25 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and leave no wrinkle or stain?...
    PC 8.224 25 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

wrinkled, adj. (4)

    Art1 2.357 10 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...wrinkled, giant, dwarf...
    Bty 6.306 7 ...character gives...awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    DL 7.125 17 ...[the men we see] are harried, wrinkled, anxious;...
    Elo2 8.114 10 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...

wrinkles, n. (3)

    Cir 2.319 23 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed...
    Ctr 6.138 3 ...here is a pedant that cannot unfold his wrinkles, nor conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    MAng1 12.244 14 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo]...is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

Wriothesley, Henry [Earl of (1)

    QO 8.198 1 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits,-by Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Bacon and others around the Earl of Southampton,-had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...

Writ, Holy, n. (1)

    Schr 10.269 22 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ.

writ, v. (10)

    F 6.1 8 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    Suc 7.284 13 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...writ the comedy and built the theatre.
    PPo 8.245 26 'T is writ on Paradise's gate,/ Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!/
    Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Grts 8.299 2 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    SovE 10.181 1 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    LS 11.2 2 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...
    PLT 12.63 6 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
    Milt1 12.270 4 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...
    Milt1 12.271 23 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.

write, v. (159)

    Nat 1.7 3 I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me.
    Nat 1.14 7 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
    AmS 1.88 13 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought...
    AmS 1.88 17 Each age...must write its own books;...
    LE 1.170 9 ...every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    Hist 2.40 20 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...
    SR 2.51 26 I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.
    Comp 2.93 2 Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation;...
    SL 2.153 12 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.153 13 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.153 17 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.
    SL 2.165 14 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...
    Lov1 2.177 18 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Fdsp 2.191 24 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    Fdsp 2.192 2 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Fdsp 2.198 11 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Fdsp 2.211 2 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter.
    Prd1 2.221 1 What right have I to write on Prudence...
    Prd1 2.221 11 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Prd1 2.221 12 ...I have the same title to write on prudence that I have to write on poetry or holiness.
    Prd1 2.221 13 We write from aspiration and antagonism...
    Prd1 2.236 11 We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.
    Cir 2.306 19 To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please.
    Cir 2.306 22 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world;...
    Cir 2.306 23 What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world;...
    Int 2.334 15 ...we have nothing to write, nothing to infer.
    Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Pt1 3.4 8 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy...
    Pt1 3.8 9 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Pt1 3.8 12 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
    Pt1 3.25 14 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    Pt1 3.37 13 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    Chr1 3.113 18 Men write their names on the world as they are filled with [the force of character].
    Mrs1 3.151 10 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets and will write out in many-colored words the romance that you are.
    Nat2 3.177 18 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Nat2 3.189 20 ...no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world;...
    Pol1 3.204 15 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.
    Pol1 3.206 18 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    Pol1 3.210 20 ...[the conservative party] does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts...
    NR 3.234 17 Lively boys write to their ear and eye...
    NR 3.237 16 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read...
    PPh 4.41 19 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus...write, or paint or act, by many hands;...
    PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone...
    PNR 4.85 14 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    MoS 4.167 8 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...than I will write, with a fine crow-quill, a fine romance.
    ShP 4.204 4 It was not possible to write the history of Shakspeare till now;...
    GoW 4.262 20 Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.263 4 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    GoW 4.269 24 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism...
    GoW 4.269 25 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write without thought...
    GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    GoW 4.280 27 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent.
    GoW 4.287 23 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    GoW 4.290 16 We too must write Bibles...
    ET1 5.22 1 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood.
    ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to read and to write.
    ET12 5.206 23 ...an Eton captain can write Latin longs and shorts...
    ET12 5.211 15 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET12 5.211 21 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    ET14 5.255 27 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.
    ET15 5.262 7 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET15 5.262 19 The English do this [write for journals], as they write poetry, as they ride and box, by being educated to it.
    ET15 5.268 2 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET15 5.268 18 ...by making the paper everything and those who write it nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
    ET15 5.269 26 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    ET17 5.294 21 No Scotchman, [Wordsworth] said, can write English.
    ET17 5.294 25 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English...
    ET17 5.294 27 Incidentally [Wordsworth] added, Gibbon cannot write English.
    Ctr 6.131 24 It is said a man can write but one book;...
    Bhr 6.191 8 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    Bhr 6.193 1 It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him;...
    Bhr 6.196 16 Every hour will show a duty as paramount as that of my whim just now, and yet I will write it,--that there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    Wsp 6.202 8 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Ill 6.321 16 We cannot write the order of the variable winds.
    SS 7.4 7 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SS 7.7 2 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence.
    SS 7.10 26 If you would learn to write, 't is in the street you must learn it.
    WD 7.175 18 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
    WD 7.181 23 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to write poems...for money;...
    WD 7.182 22 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    Boks 7.208 4 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also to the times.
    Boks 7.211 22 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Clbs 7.244 11 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well.
    Clbs 7.249 19 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell...what men write and read abroad.
    Suc 7.286 7 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher and trade;...
    OA 7.319 14 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    PI 8.33 8 Write, that I may know you.
    PI 8.42 23 [Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read.
    PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
    Elo2 8.131 14 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    QO 8.190 2 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well.
    QO 8.196 15 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...
    PPo 8.251 1 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.
    Insp 8.270 13 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Insp 8.272 4 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Insp 8.278 16 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    Insp 8.282 19 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    Grts 8.308 19 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Grts 8.315 10 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Imtl 8.346 5 The real evidence [of immortality]...is higher than we can write down in propositions...
    Dem1 10.12 4 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    Dem1 10.12 5 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
    PerF 10.85 2 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    SovE 10.204 17 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    SovE 10.209 10 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?
    Prch 10.219 27 The Understanding will write out the vision in a Confession of Faith.
    MoL 10.253 25 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    MoL 10.257 1 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    Schr 10.274 21 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message;...gag him he can still write it;...
    Plu 10.295 26 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write.
    LLNE 10.358 24 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well.
    MMEm 10.421 25 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time, make epochs, write histories...
    SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    Thor 10.457 2 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...
    Thor 10.462 6 The length of [Thoreau's] walk uniformly made the length of his writing. If shut up in the house he did not write at all.
    Carl 10.494 13 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    HDC 11.57 2 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.57 22 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    LVB 11.96 7 I write thus, sir [Van Buren], to inform you of the state of mind these Indian tidings have awakened here...
    EWI 11.108 5 John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.
    FSLC 11.195 1 ...the sentiments, of course, write the statutes.
    SMC 11.360 9 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of and write home about.
    Wom 11.418 15 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves...
    Wom 11.425 13 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write stipulations...
    Scot 11.464 18 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
    Scot 11.464 25 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
    CPL 11.508 17 ...there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write?
    FRep 11.527 11 It is rare to find a born American who cannot read and write.
    FRep 11.539 27 ...if we have taught...the bolt of heaven to write our letters like a Gillot pen, let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will...write our laws for the benefit of men.
    PLT 12.7 23 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PLT 12.11 15 I write anecdotes of the intellect;...
    PLT 12.19 19 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.
    PLT 12.52 15 It is much to write sentences;...
    PLT 12.52 16 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
    PLT 12.57 11 All is condoned if I can write a good song or novel.
    II 12.78 16 ...none but a writer should write;...
    II 12.78 16 ...[the writer] should write affirmatively, not polemically...
    II 12.78 17 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody...
    Bost 12.194 12 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Bost 12.195 18 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.210 4 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.
    Milt1 12.256 9 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.263 10 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
    Milt1 12.274 2 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...
    ACri 12.284 22 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
    ACri 12.296 17 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of, and did not write up to it, but could write down (a main secret)...
    MLit 12.311 11 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    MLit 12.317 8 ...selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...
    MLit 12.335 18 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
    MLit 12.335 21 [The Genius of the time] will write the annals of a changed world...
    EurB 12.365 20 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think of printing...
    EurB 12.368 1 We have poets who write the poetry of society...
    EurB 12.368 3 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    EurB 12.377 24 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.
    PPr 12.380 21 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
    PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

writer, n. (87)

    Nat 1.70 6 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    AmS 1.88 24 The writer was a just and wise spirit...
    Comp 2.108 9 This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine. It came from thought above the will of the writer.
    Comp 2.108 9 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...
    SL 2.153 21 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Int 2.332 19 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
    Int 2.345 12 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Pt1 3.9 4 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...
    Pt1 3.15 21 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    Pt1 3.34 2 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
    SwM 4.124 7 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    MoS 4.163 26 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    ShP 4.199 13 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched by any companion? The appeal is to the consciousness of the writer.
    ShP 4.200 10 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected...from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.
    ShP 4.205 8 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    NMW 4.251 25 I admire...[Bonaparte's] own equality as a writer to his varying subject.
    GoW 4.261 2 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 4.262 22 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair.
    GoW 4.269 5 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground.
    GoW 4.270 6 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe to represent the powers and duties of the scholar or writer.
    GoW 4.281 13 Talent alone can not make a writer.
    GoW 4.283 21 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    GoW 4.287 21 [Goethe] is...a writer of occasional poems and of an encyclopaedia of sentences.
    ET4 5.44 4 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...
    ET4 5.44 15 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends. Hence every writer makes a different count.
    ET5 5.100 7 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.
    ET7 5.117 22 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    ET12 5.207 15 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    ET14 5.235 10 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    ET14 5.246 21 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...
    ET15 5.268 14 No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper [in the London Times];...
    F 6.16 18 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer...
    Art2 7.46 26 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Suc 7.297 10 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?
    PI 8.31 2 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...
    PI 8.33 10 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought...
    PI 8.35 19 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PI 8.35 24 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature. Yet the writer holds it cheap...
    PI 8.36 1 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table...than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.40 10 The writer...must be exempted from secular labor.
    PI 8.49 24 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer.
    Elo2 8.131 14 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    Elo2 8.131 16 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    QO 8.188 18 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    QO 8.189 5 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    QO 8.191 10 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    QO 8.192 17 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
    QO 8.195 1 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
    PC 8.219 15 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    Insp 8.293 6 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought...
    Prch 10.227 11 [The theologian] sees that what is most effective in the writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.
    MoL 10.257 1 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    Plu 10.293 7 Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
    Plu 10.294 13 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer.
    Plu 10.298 21 The range of mind makes the glad writer.
    Plu 10.300 3 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.311 15 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...a writer of sentences...
    Plu 10.317 3 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.
    Plu 10.320 23 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
    LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist, not...a writer of books;...
    Carl 10.489 8 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...and then only accidentally and by a surprising addition, the admirable scholar and writer he is.
    Shak1 11.450 22 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    Scot 11.463 14 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
    Scot 11.467 13 What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer.
    CPL 11.500 14 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
    CPL 11.504 25 ...Napoleon was an excellent writer.
    II 12.74 3 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    II 12.78 15 ...none but a writer should write;...
    Mem 12.101 3 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    ACri 12.283 9 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.283 12 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...
    ACri 12.283 24 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
    ACri 12.285 14 You know the history of the eminent English writer on gypsies, George Borrow;...
    ACri 12.290 18 A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
    ACri 12.296 10 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer.
    ACri 12.299 2 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...
    ACri 12.303 16 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...
    MLit 12.314 23 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition; namely, whether it leads us to Nature, or to the person of the writer.
    MLit 12.315 25 Would you know the genius of the writer? Do not enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself, What spirit is he of?
    WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer...
    WSL 12.348 3 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...
    EurB 12.367 17 ...[Wordsworth] has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.
    EurB 12.368 6 ...Wordsworth...made no reserves or stipulations; man and writer were not to be divided.
    EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    PPr 12.388 7 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    Let 12.392 13 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.

Writer to the Signet, n. (1)

    Scot 11.467 20 [Scott] was apprenticed at Edinburgh to a Writer to the Signet, and became a Writer to the Signet...

writers, n. (71)

    Nat 1.30 13 Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe...that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.30 19 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country...
    Lov1 2.181 4 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
    Hsm1 2.248 19 ...I must think we are more deeply indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
    OS 2.288 5 ...the most illuminated class of men...are not writers.
    OS 2.289 2 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Int 2.338 15 ...the world has a million writers.
    Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
    Exp 3.66 19 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors?
    MoS 4.164 25 Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
    ShP 4.192 12 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    ShP 4.192 23 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.197 18 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
    ShP 4.206 1 We are very clumsy writers of history.
    NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter, which all writers...had described as impracticable.
    GoW 4.264 12 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    GoW 4.270 20 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is no poet, but scores of poetic writers;...
    GoW 4.284 6 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer...
    ET1 5.4 4 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.5 2 I have...found writers superior to their books...
    ET1 5.9 6 I suppose I teased [Landor] about recent writers...
    ET10 5.154 2 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.213 2 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
    ET14 5.234 16 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; in these writers [Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton] and in Herbert, Henry More, Donne and Sir Thomas Browne.
    ET14 5.236 9 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.236 16 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET14 5.242 25 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
    ET14 5.245 23 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    ET15 5.267 24 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    ET16 5.280 7 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers;...
    ET16 5.280 8 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone.
    ET16 5.281 18 Of all the writers [on Stonehenge], Stukeley is the best.
    Ctr 6.142 7 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    CbW 6.273 5 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...
    Elo1 7.95 7 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke;...
    Boks 7.193 26 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Boks 7.194 18 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    Boks 7.195 5 [Nature] does the same thing by books as by her gases and plants. There is always a selection in writers, and then a selection from the selection.
    Boks 7.203 4 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].
    Boks 7.212 15 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. Our orators and writers are of the same poverty...
    PI 8.31 2 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is: this holds even of the bravest and sincerest writers.
    QO 8.196 4 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    PC 8.216 3 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
    Insp 8.290 8 Even a steel pen is a nuisance to some writers.
    Insp 8.290 11 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Grts 8.308 25 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Aris 10.50 7 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.50 8 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Chr2 10.111 24 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
    Plu 10.297 13 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...
    Plu 10.306 5 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally...has a great gain for brevity...
    LLNE 10.344 2 Perhaps [The Dial's] writers were its chief readers...
    Carl 10.490 21 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons,-bishops, courtiers, scholars, writers...
    SMC 11.372 12 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    Shak1 11.451 21 [Shakespeare] dwarfs all writers without a solitary exception.
    Humb 11.458 16 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.
    PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
    CInt 12.118 22 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America.
    Bost 12.195 2 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Milt1 12.255 25 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...
    ACri 12.286 12 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...among the writers, Swift, De Foe, Carlyle.
    ACri 12.291 23 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    ACri 12.293 13 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...
    MLit 12.319 16 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
    MLit 12.322 4 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.
    MLit 12.323 6 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste,-a quality by no means common to the German writers.
    WSL 12.346 5 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
    WSL 12.347 5 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers...
    Let 12.394 4 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
    Let 12.394 27 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...

writer's, n. (3)

    SS 7.11 2 The people, not the college, is the writer's home.
    QO 8.194 12 We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
    ACri 12.297 16 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped. You have no board interposed between you and the writer's mind...

writes, v. (89)

    Nat 1.3 2 [Our age] writes biographies, histories, and criticism.
    LE 1.170 12 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    Hist 2.7 10 All literature writes the character of the wise man.
    Hist 2.33 20 Much revolving [his figures Goethe] writes out freely his humor...
    Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...
    Comp 2.100 5 This law [Compensation] writes the laws of cities and nations.
    SL 2.149 3 [A man] may read what he writes.
    SL 2.153 17 He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
    SL 2.159 13 [A man's] vice...writes O fool! fool! on the forehead of a king.
    Cir 2.312 24 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Pt1 3.7 25 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pt1 3.31 7 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    Chr1 3.106 21 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Mrs1 3.120 12 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Nat2 3.188 11 Each young and ardent person writes a diary...
    Nat2 3.189 21 ...no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world;...
    PPh 4.61 18 [Plato] never writes in ecstasy...
    PNR 4.88 7 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
    SwM 4.141 4 [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.
    ShP 4.207 7 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    NMW 4.232 13 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    GoW 4.263 13 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    GoW 4.274 15 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...
    GoW 4.274 17 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone, omitting a great deal more than he writes...
    GoW 4.275 23 It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe] writes upon.
    ET1 5.22 6 ...[Wordsworth] never writes prose...
    ET5 5.100 2 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET9 5.150 17 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.156 23 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET11 5.181 5 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
    ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET13 5.229 13 Dickens writes novels on Exeter-Hall humanity.
    ET14 5.245 19 Hallam...writes with resolute generosity...
    ET14 5.246 18 Dickens...writes London tracts.
    ET15 5.269 25 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    Ctr 6.148 25 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
    Ctr 6.151 23 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./ Not much otherwise Milnes writes in the Lay of the Humble...
    Wsp 6.233 27 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    CbW 6.273 1 An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth:-- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Shakspeare writes it...
    Suc 7.284 8 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
    Suc 7.291 1 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.299 1 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature...
    Suc 7.300 23 ...every change in [the world] writes a record in the mind.
    PI 8.27 18 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    PI 8.31 9 The poet writes from a real experience...
    PI 8.66 1 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode, not with syllables, but men.
    PI 8.71 18 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.
    QO 8.197 23 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again, writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper clothes.
    PPo 8.258 19 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Grts 8.318 5 ...it is curious that Byron writes down to Scott; Scott writes up to him.
    Chr2 10.110 3 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.
    Schr 10.269 19 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Plu 10.315 15 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes on Friendship...
    EzRy 10.384 12 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    MMEm 10.401 21 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...
    MMEm 10.403 10 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is] that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism...
    MMEm 10.404 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.
    MMEm 10.406 26 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
    MMEm 10.407 5 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    MMEm 10.408 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes: August, 1847: Vale.- My oddities were never designed...
    MMEm 10.413 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes of her early days in Malden: When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    HDC 11.35 4 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins...
    HDC 11.62 26 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.77 24 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
    EWI 11.120 15 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    FSLC 11.206 18 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
    SMC 11.356 1 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.358 4 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.361 18 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
    SMC 11.361 27 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home...
    SMC 11.362 12 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.
    SMC 11.364 7 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.368 27 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared...
    Wom 11.425 15 ...woman moulds the lawgiver and writes the law.
    FRO2 11.486 16 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
    CPL 11.499 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...
    CPL 11.500 20 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
    CPL 11.504 27 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    CPL 11.506 1 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...
    Bost 12.189 18 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
    Bost 12.190 9 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Milt1 12.249 19 [Milton] writes whilst he is heated;...
    Milt1 12.258 26 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    ACri 12.290 17 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes.
    MLit 12.311 10 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    WSL 12.343 17 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    Let 12.395 12 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life...

writhing, v. (1)

    SovE 10.195 17 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.

writing, adj. (1)

    SR 2.84 19 What a contrast between the...writing...American...and the naked New Zealander...

writing, n. (42)

    Nat 1.31 6 ...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
    AmS 1.93 2 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
    AmS 1.112 8 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    AmS 1.112 10 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic. This writing is blood-warm.
    Tran 1.342 11 [Transcendentalists] are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely;...
    SL 2.153 4 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought.
    Exp 3.69 11 All writing comes by the grace of God...
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    Chr1 3.106 23 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Nat2 3.188 26 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
    Nat2 3.189 2 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with astonishment and vexation. He cannot suspect the writing itself.
    SwM 4.103 24 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or egotism.
    SwM 4.113 11 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.126 15 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    MoS 4.169 7 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms...
    ShP 4.198 13 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    NMW 4.227 18 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    GoW 4.282 17 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble...
    ET14 5.236 11 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    Bhr 6.191 9 ...when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of writing;...
    Boks 7.195 24 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!--it is as if Minos and Rhadamanthus had indorsed the writing.
    QO 8.192 8 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing...very soon reproduced it in his conversation and writing.
    Insp 8.281 3 The perfection of writing is when mind and body are both in key;...
    Dem1 10.12 16 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Edc1 10.157 15 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
    Supl 10.179 5 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    Thor 10.462 5 The length of [Thoreau's] walk uniformly made the length of his writing.
    Thor 10.464 15 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light, serving for the ornament of their writing, was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    Carl 10.489 3 Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing...
    SMC 11.360 20 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp...
    CPL 11.497 10 Every faculty casts itself into an art, and memory into the art of writing...
    CPL 11.497 14 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    II 12.78 14 ...all writing is by the grace of God;...
    Mem 12.99 12 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
    Mem 12.99 16 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.
    Milt1 12.256 4 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    ACri 12.283 10 Writing is the greatest of arts...
    ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.297 13 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric, or art of writing.
    ACri 12.297 14 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped.
    ACri 12.303 8 The art of writing is the highest of those permitted to man as drawing directly from the soul...
    PPr 12.388 23 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...

writing, v. (44)

    AmS 1.112 23 ...writing with the precision of a mathematician, [Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    Tran 1.341 16 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    Int 2.333 8 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
    Art1 2.364 5 [Sculpture] was originally...a mode of writing...
    Exp 3.64 27 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned;...
    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    PPh 4.44 13 [Plato]...died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years.
    SwM 4.100 6 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...
    ShP 4.205 13 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    ShP 4.215 9 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...
    GoW 4.261 9 All things are engaged in writing their history.
    ET1 5.22 8 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET3 5.43 26 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET11 5.178 21 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    ET12 5.207 11 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...
    ET15 5.262 14 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    ET16 5.280 1 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
    Ctr 6.156 4 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    Bhr 6.191 1 In this country...we have...a profusion of reading and writing and expression.
    Civ 7.19 8 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject [Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
    WD 7.182 23 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    Boks 7.200 3 ...such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare [Plutarch's Morals] as the Lives.
    PI 8.42 25 We cannot know things by words and writing...
    PI 8.44 8 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    PC 8.219 23 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley...are really writing to each other.
    Insp 8.281 14 The experience of writing letters is one of the keys to the modus of inspiration.
    Insp 8.281 20 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.283 3 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only in his constitution, but in his fancy and his facility and grace in writing verse;...
    Insp 8.294 14 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Imtl 8.345 21 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Plu 10.305 20 There is...a wide difference of time in the writing of these discourses [of Plutarch]...
    Plu 10.306 6 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally, coming from the habit of writing for one sex only, has a great gain for brevity...
    LLNE 10.362 18 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    SMC 11.360 22 The writing of letters made the Sunday in every [Civil War] camp:-meantime [the soldiers] are without the means of writing.
    SMC 11.373 17 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades... writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    II 12.72 12 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
    Mem 12.95 4 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.
    MAng1 12.240 8 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters, and to the writing of religious poetry.
    Milt1 12.270 9 At one time [Milton] meditated writing a poem on the settlement of Britain...
    ACri 12.300 25 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    WSL 12.342 14 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
    EurB 12.366 23 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff.
    Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...

writings, n. (40)

    Chr1 3.104 17 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    PPh 4.43 13 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings...
    PPh 4.44 22 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning...
    PPh 4.49 11 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
    PPh 4.76 5 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    PNR 4.85 23 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated, either in poetry or prose writings,--how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.88 25 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry.
    SwM 4.105 24 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
    SwM 4.123 4 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings...
    MoS 4.179 6 ...readings, writings, are nothing to the purpose;...
    ShP 4.198 14 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    GoW 4.282 20 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
    ET14 5.258 27 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET16 5.274 12 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out, and, in his later writings, changed his tone.
    Ill 6.324 9 ...the Hindoos, in their sacred writings, express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    PI 8.30 26 All writings must be in a degree exoteric...
    QO 8.187 4 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    QO 8.200 19 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons...
    Chr2 10.105 23 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Chr2 10.116 7 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Plu 10.296 3 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    Plu 10.311 12 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary, though...their writings were perhaps unknown to each other.
    LLNE 10.330 21 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with Wolff' s theory of the Homeric writings...
    LLNE 10.340 2 ...[Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
    MMEm 10.427 3 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    Thor 10.477 15 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.479 8 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...
    FSLC 11.204 22 So with the eulogies of liberty in [Webster's] writings,- they are sentimentalism and youthful rhetoric.
    FSLN 11.224 6 ...there is...not an aphorism that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    FRO2 11.486 25 ...every sentiment and precept of Christianity can be paralleled in other religious writings...
    Milt1 12.248 20 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to have been read with avidity.
    Milt1 12.248 25 ...as writings designed to gain a practical point, [Milton's tracts] fail.
    Milt1 12.249 10 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
    Milt1 12.249 14 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for the truth, the learning...
    Milt1 12.251 8 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
    Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
    Milt1 12.273 15 [Milton] wished that his writings should be communicated only to those who desired to see them.
    Milt1 12.279 9 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored, in his writings and in his life, to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    WSL 12.340 7 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor]. Possibly his writings are open to harsher censure;...

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