Writs to Wyman, Jeffries

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

writs, n. (1)

    Aris 10.42 9 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.

written, adj. (11)

    Tran 1.336 11 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Exp 3.75 10 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    Mrs1 3.120 17 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which, without written laws or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself...
    ET11 5.173 7 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the written and oral history of Europe...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET14 5.245 5 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...
    Imtl 8.346 13 You cannot make a written theory or demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican astronomy.
    Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages...
    FSLC 11.194 26 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by the written laws themselves...
    FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...

written, v. (161)

    AmS 1.89 7 Books are written on [a book] by thinkers...
    AmS 1.97 22 Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein...
    DSA 1.121 21 [These divine laws] will not be written out on paper...
    DSA 1.126 21 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    LE 1.162 3 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out...makes me bold.
    LE 1.167 3 ...to have written a book that is read, satisfies us.
    LE 1.167 9 Say rather all literature is yet to be written.
    LE 1.170 15 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
    MR 1.242 16 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker...not himself often a ludicrous contrast to all that he has written.
    LT 1.290 8 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...
    Hist 2.38 15 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Hist 2.39 16 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth. Is there somewhat overweening in this claim? Then I reject all I have written...
    Hist 2.40 8 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
    SR 2.45 1 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original...
    Comp 2.110 1 The Devil is an ass. It is thus written, because it is thus in life.
    SL 2.143 9 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    SL 2.154 24 No book, said Bentley, was ever written down by any but itself.
    Lov1 2.175 21 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Lov1 2.177 17 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Fdsp 2.204 23 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
    Prd1 2.234 10 The laws of the world are written out for [a man] on every piece of money in his hand.
    Prd1 2.236 2 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    OS 2.267 19 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written...
    OS 2.291 3 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written...
    Pt1 3.8 5 ...poetry was all written before time was...
    Pt1 3.10 15 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines...
    Pt1 3.10 27 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side.
    Exp 3.58 12 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform...
    Exp 3.58 14 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform, and for all that they have written, neither the world nor themselves have got on a step.
    Chr1 3.103 26 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    Chr1 3.114 5 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    Mrs1 3.152 2 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets, but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her.
    Nat2 3.180 19 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be written on the thumbnail...
    Nat2 3.188 13 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...
    NR 3.232 27 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    UGM 4.32 21 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals.
    PPh 4.39 12 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    SwM 4.111 26 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written with the highest end...
    SwM 4.120 3 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories, or written in the angelic and ecstatic mode, [Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.121 23 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written.
    MoS 4.162 22 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays]...
    MoS 4.163 11 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and...had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only...
    MoS 4.165 2 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only, and almost all were written in Latin;...
    MoS 4.168 10 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays].
    ShP 4.195 12 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
    ShP 4.195 21 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
    ShP 4.199 22 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work...
    ShP 4.211 23 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form...out of notice. 'T is like making a question concerning the paper on which a king's message is written.
    GoW 4.263 1 [The writer] believes that all that can be thought can be written...
    GoW 4.263 23 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric...
    GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...
    ET1 5.11 1 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET1 5.23 13 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...but what he had written would be printed...
    ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books,--it is written only in the geologic strata,--that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
    ET4 5.71 2 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries...
    ET8 5.134 4 ...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are written...
    ET11 5.190 12 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written...
    ET11 5.190 17 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    ET14 5.245 9 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    ET14 5.257 10 [Wordsworth] has written longer than he was inspired.
    ET17 5.295 4 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    ET18 5.299 21 The history of Rome and Greece, when written by [English] scholars, degenerates into English party pamphlets.
    F 6.5 11 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf... rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    F 6.29 11 ...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers himself to be betrayed by Fate!
    Bhr 6.177 3 If [the human body] were made of glass, or of air, and the thoughts were written on steel tablets within, it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    Bhr 6.184 26 ...here [in dress circles] are the secret biographies written and read.
    Civ 7.21 26 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday.
    Art2 7.50 3 Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is.
    DL 7.108 25 The history of your fortunes is written first in your life.
    DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...books that are written to his condition...
    WD 7.182 5 Poems have been written between sleeping and waking, irresponsibly.
    Boks 7.190 21 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
    Boks 7.195 8 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Boks 7.207 21 [Jonson] has written verses to or on all his notable contemporaries;...
    Cour 7.259 9 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys...
    PI 8.30 27 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would,instead of to the fatal is...
    PI 8.45 4 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    PI 8.54 6 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when...laureate odes on state occasions are written.
    PI 8.66 9 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    PI 8.67 26 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...
    PI 8.69 13 The book [Goethe's Faust] is undeniably written by a master...
    Elo2 8.125 23 ...all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    QO 8.197 26 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    QO 8.198 8 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could have written it?
    QO 8.198 20 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    PC 8.219 13 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    PPo 8.241 23 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
    PPo 8.249 26 It is the spirit in which the song is written that imports...
    PPo 8.251 16 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    PPo 8.263 19 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    Insp 8.277 24 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Insp 8.295 22 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Insp 8.295 26 Books of natural science, especially those written by the ancients...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Insp 8.296 2 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Grts 8.308 27 ...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.
    Grts 8.315 24 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    Imtl 8.328 17 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living.
    Imtl 8.344 17 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    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 10.112 2 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    SovE 10.206 16 The Orientals believe in Fate. That which shall befall them is written on the iron leaf;...
    Prch 10.229 1 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    MoL 10.254 27 Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Plu 10.298 18 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    LLNE 10.326 12 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.334 11 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    LLNE 10.336 15 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    EzRy 10.384 10 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.
    EzRy 10.390 10 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    HDC 11.77 23 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775, in a blank leaf of which he has written a narrative of the fight [battle of Concord];...
    FSLC 11.204 10 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend.
    FSLC 11.204 12 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend. Lucky that so much has got well written when he came.
    AsSu 11.250 24 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    ACiv 11.303 9 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts...
    ACiv 11.310 9 Since the above pages were written, President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    EPro 11.323 6 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf...
    SMC 11.360 26 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills...
    SMC 11.360 27 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written by fire-light, making the short night shorter;...
    SMC 11.361 1 Some of these [Civil War] letters are...written on the knee, in the mud, with pencil...
    EdAd 11.393 12 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...
    EdAd 11.393 14 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    Wom 11.417 16 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all...such satire as might be written on the tenants of a hospital or on an asylum for idiots.
    Shak1 11.449 22 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written;...
    Scot 11.464 9 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides, and written down from their lips by antiquaries;...
    FRO2 11.491 3 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man, written large.
    CPL 11.500 15 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 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the book is written;...
    FRep 11.540 15 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    Mem 12.93 1 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man;...
    CInt 12.114 24 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...
    CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
    CW 12.175 12 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
    MAng1 12.241 25 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    Milt1 12.250 10 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have written from the deep convictions of love and right...
    Milt1 12.255 3 Lord Bacon, who has written much and with prodigious ability on this science [of human nature], shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
    Milt1 12.259 4 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.259 5 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.262 2 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue...
    Milt1 12.278 17 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    ACri 12.292 3 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
    ACri 12.292 13 'T is the worst praise you can give a speech that it is as if written.
    ACri 12.298 8 Until history is interesting, it is not yet written.
    ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
    MLit 12.320 3 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
    MLit 12.321 3 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written...
    MLit 12.325 27 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's journal]...is thought and written with the greatness peculiar to him.
    MLit 12.329 1 All great men have written proudly...
    MLit 12.332 14 [Goethe] has written better than other poets only as his talent was subtler...
    WSL 12.340 5 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors, yet has written no book.
    WSL 12.347 24 [Landor] knows the value of his own words. They are not, he says, written on slate.
    Pray 12.354 20 The last of the four orisons is written in a singularly calm and healthful spirit...
    AgMs 12.359 20 Innocence and justice have written their names on [Edmund Hosmer's] brow.
    AgMs 12.360 14 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for?
    AgMs 12.360 21 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men.
    EurB 12.372 10 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other.
    EurB 12.372 11 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other.
    EurB 12.372 14 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.
    Let 12.399 24 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany, whose tone is still so familiar that we were somewhat mortified to find that it was written in 1799.

wrong, adj. (41)

    Nat 1.25 17 ...wrong means twisted.
    Nat 1.33 19 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong;...
    AmS 1.84 18 ...All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    LT 1.278 6 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong...
    Con 1.316 4 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying, This way of life is wrong...
    Chr1 3.97 2 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor, and its quality as right or wrong it was easy to predict.
    Nat2 3.184 18 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
    NER 3.262 2 All our things are right and wrong together.
    UGM 4.24 23 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong.
    SwM 4.134 9 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
    MoS 4.155 3 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. He finds both wrong by being in extremes.
    ET1 5.10 2 The criticism [of Landor] may be right or wrong, and is quickly forgotten;...
    ET1 5.23 7 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...
    ET18 5.306 9 [The English] are right in their feeling, though wrong in their speculation.
    CbW 6.270 4 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that nature and gravitation are quite wrong, and he only is right.
    Bty 6.305 4 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky, day and night, is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Clbs 7.246 27 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
    PI 8.13 19 If you agree with me...I may yet be wrong;...
    SA 8.106 11 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to suspect that something was wrong.
    PPo 8.248 25 Wrong shall not be wrong to Hafiz for the name's sake.
    Chr2 10.113 6 [Morals] does not ask whether you are wrong or right in your anecdotes of [past teachers and witnesses];...
    Chr2 10.118 25 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke. Is not this wrong? is not this dangerous?
    Chr2 10.118 26 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no fagot, no penance, no fine, no rebuke. Is not this wrong? is not this dangerous? 'T is not wrong, but the law of growth.
    Edc1 10.158 19 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    Prch 10.225 15 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to do the duty of that moment and to abstain from doing the wrong.
    Schr 10.279 8 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently all is wrong...
    Schr 10.279 19 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    LLNE 10.355 27 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...
    HDC 11.67 11 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon.
    FSLC 11.191 21 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.
    JBB 11.269 14 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
    Shak1 11.451 19 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that is never to seek, and never wrong...
    FRO2 11.488 15 [Miraculous dispensation] comes the wrong way; to comes from without, not within.
    FRep 11.525 16 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    PLT 12.8 19 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong;...
    PLT 12.37 13 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods. But... the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue, and we take the wrong path and miss him.
    PLT 12.58 21 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop, and the greater it grows the more is the mischief and the misleading, so that presently all is wrong.
    II 12.82 18 If [a man] is wrong, increase his determination to his aim, and he is right again.
    CInt 12.123 21 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong...
    CL 12.165 14 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man. They may have been right or wrong in any particulars of their interpretation...
    WSL 12.344 27 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.

wrong, adv. (4)

    AmS 1.89 9 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is, who start wrong...
    YA 1.379 10 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    ET16 5.279 18 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    CbW 6.250 4 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...

wrong, n. (57)

    Nat 1.41 1 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    MN 1.206 1 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy heart, the bower of love and the realms of right and wrong.
    LT 1.270 9 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong...
    LT 1.276 7 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong.
    LT 1.279 18 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence right and wrong...
    Con 1.313 2 ...it might temper your indignation at the supposed wrong which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how society got into this predicament?
    Tran 1.336 22 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    YA 1.386 3 If any man has a talent for righting wrong...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    SR 2.50 27 ...the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Comp 2.102 19 Every secret is told...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
    Comp 2.110 18 You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
    Comp 2.111 15 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
    Comp 2.121 24 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also;...
    SL 2.139 24 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. Then you put all gainsayers in the wrong.
    Hsm1. 2.252 1 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Chr1 3.100 14 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man] puts America and Europe in the wrong...
    Chr1 3.107 20 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Pol1 3.214 2 My right and my wrong is their right and their wrong.
    Pol1 3.214 3 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. My right and my wrong is their right and their wrong.
    Pol1 3.214 12 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    SwM 4.134 9 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
    SwM 4.134 25 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    MoS 4.176 12 Are the opinions of a man on right and wrong...at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET7 5.117 6 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...but it has provoked the malice of all others, as if avengers of public wrong.
    ET9 5.144 19 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom...
    ET19 5.311 3 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong...
    Wth 6.103 21 ...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of the right and wrong where it circulates.
    Ctr 6.161 6 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Wsp 6.210 5 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that once sucked the roots of right and wrong...
    Wsp 6.216 27 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can.
    Elo1 7.97 8 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he has not done nothing, nor done wrong...
    DL 7.115 20 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    Res 8.146 5 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him...
    PPo 8.248 24 Wrong shall not be wrong to Hafiz for the name's sake.
    Grts 8.319 2 ...there was no room in [Lincoln's heart] to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Imtl 8.333 15 I know...that there is a remedy for every wrong...
    Aris 10.41 25 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief. And no wrong was so keenly resented as any fraud in this transaction.
    Aris 10.52 4 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury. These are the heads of party, who can do no wrong...
    Edc1 10.148 10 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
    SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.
    SovE 10.191 11 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom...with...courage and the victories of the just and wise over malice and wrong.
    SlHr 10.446 17 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    EWI 11.144 6 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    FSLC 11.187 17 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    FSLC 11.197 1 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
    FSLC 11.211 23 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
    FSLN 11.224 10 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.230 4 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    FSLN 11.235 17 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    FSLN 11.238 1 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
    FSLN 11.238 23 ...Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong.
    SMC 11.354 17 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    Wom 11.416 14 There was...no wrong [antagonism to Slavery] did not expose.
    Wom 11.420 22 If new power is here, of a character...which puts me and all the rest in the wrong...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Bost 12.208 11 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone; a tendency to be in the right or in the wrong;...
    PPr 12.385 21 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.

Wrong, n. (2)

    Exp 3.43 8 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all.

wrong, v. (3)

    Comp 2.92 6 Fear not, then, thou child infirm,/ There 's no god dare wrong a worm./
    SL 2.139 5 ...none of us can wrong the universe.
    Prd1 2.232 19 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.

wrongdoers, n. (2)

    Comp 2.120 2 The inviolate spirit turns [the mob's] spite against the wrongdoers.
    Wsp 6.199 14 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late,/ But ever coming in time to crown/ The truth, and hurl wrongdoers down./

wronged, adj. (2)

    MR 1.246 18 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as the most wronged...persons on earth.
    CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country...reinstates us wronged men in our rights.

wronged, v. (7)

    AmS 1.106 10 I believe man has been wronged; he has wronged himself.
    Wsp 6.236 17 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged.
    OA 7.327 24 He is serene who does not feel himself pinched and wronged...
    Imtl 8.345 26 ...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; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.
    Imtl 8.345 27 ...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; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.
    PLT 12.34 21 [Instinct] is that sense by which men feel when they are wronged...
    ACri 12.289 10 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...

wrong-head, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.217 27 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.

wrong-headed, adj. [wrongheaded,] (2)

    Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in which they are rightest...
    NR 3.226 14 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.

wrongheadedness, n. (1)

    CbW 6.269 27 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best;...

wrongs, n. (21)

    Nat 1.14 8 [The private poor man] goes...to the court-house, and nations repair his wrongs.
    DSA 1.122 27 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere, righting wrongs...
    MR 1.233 22 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs.
    MR 1.247 24 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    LT 1.281 2 The exaggeration which our young people make of [the slave's] wrongs, characterizes themselves.
    Con 1.324 9 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed; for its wrongs he will not hold himself responsible...
    Comp 2.107 23 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Comp 2.112 4 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
    NER 3.263 3 When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs...we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
    SwM 4.137 8 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs;...
    ET10 5.169 25 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    ET18 5.304 5 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...
    Cour 7.260 6 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs...
    Cour 7.260 8 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's?
    EWI 11.107 10 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe, but the wrongs in the islands [West Indies] were not thereby touched.
    EWI 11.111 21 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    EWI 11.129 5 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro, for man suffering these wrongs, combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.178 2 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
    Koss 11.401 8 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    WSL 12.341 21 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
    Let 12.404 3 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

wrote, v. (89)

    AmS 1.89 15 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
    AmS 1.91 25 [The best books] impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads.
    LE 1.170 16 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe.
    LT 1.284 11 I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any population.
    Hist 2.4 7 This human mind wrote history, and this must read it.
    Hist 2.30 2 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    SL 2.158 18 Pretension never wrote an Iliad...
    Cir 2.306 27 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
    UGM 4.28 8 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    PNR 4.86 16 [Plato] wrote on the scale of the mind itself...
    MoS 4.166 23 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an emblematic pair of scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
    ShP 4.193 11 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them first.
    ShP 4.211 3 [Shakespeare] wrote the airs for all our modern music...
    ShP 4.211 4 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life;...
    NMW 4.226 12 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately...
    GoW 4.269 9 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote Bibles...
    GoW 4.269 13 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... He wrote without levity and without choice.
    ET1 5.10 8 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
    ET1 5.21 26 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely.
    ET1 5.21 28 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly...
    ET5 5.79 11 Sir Kenelm wrote a book...in which he propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer.
    ET8 5.141 27 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    ET9 5.145 10 A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the Relation of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET11 5.180 21 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
    ET12 5.203 5 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and wrote four thousand pounds.
    ET14 5.234 3 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Hooker, Cotton and the translators wrote it.
    ET14 5.248 24 Coleridge...who wrote and spoke the only high criticism in his time, is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    ET14 5.257 6 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
    ET16 5.284 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney, where he wrote the Arcadia;...
    ET17 5.295 1 The Edinburgh Review wrote what would tell and what would sell.
    Ctr 6.156 26 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
    CbW 6.253 5 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...
    CbW 6.258 20 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
    Civ 7.30 5 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    Elo1 7.69 22 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    Farm 7.135 18 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    WD 7.167 10 Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...
    WD 7.182 13 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy].
    Suc 7.306 18 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.19 17 Our best definition of poetry...claims to come down to us from the Chaldaean Zoroaster, who wrote it thus: Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    PI 8.28 21 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...
    PI 8.28 22 ...Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote Emblems.
    PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby, though he never wrote a verse, a greater poet than Cowper...
    PI 8.72 19 ...Dante was free imagination,--all wings,--yet he wrote like Euclid.
    SA 8.98 6 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg, when he wrote in the Koran: On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    QO 8.193 13 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...
    QO 8.197 2 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote...
    PPo 8.237 5 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    PPo 8.263 15 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...
    Insp 8.277 17 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Grts 8.315 27 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him...
    Imtl 8.327 19 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Schr 10.275 2 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Plu 10.295 8 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    LLNE 10.340 5 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical (for he wrote on the Tariff), on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.342 20 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    MMEm 10.408 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C. Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening.
    Thor 10.454 18 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
    Thor 10.459 27 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    LS 11.6 23 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have...dwelt in the mind of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.10 4 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence. He stopped and wrote on the sand.
    LS 11.14 6 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper; but he wrote it merely to chide [his friends] for drunkenness.
    HDC 11.44 2 The necessity of the colonists wrote the law.
    EWI 11.108 12 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize;...
    EWI 11.108 13 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize; but he wrote too well for his own peace;...
    EWI 11.137 3 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side; the poet Cowper wrote for it...
    War 11.158 10 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    SMC 11.357 23 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper...
    Wom 11.407 18 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    RBur 11.441 10 It was indifferent-they thought who saw him-whether [Burns] wrote verse or not...
    Shak1 11.447 14 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    PLT 12.34 7 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages;...
    PLT 12.49 10 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.
    PLT 12.50 7 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    II 12.78 19 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages...
    MAng1 12.241 24 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    Milt1 12.251 20 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Milt1 12.268 5 ...[Milton] wrote a grammar;...
    Milt1 12.272 8 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.
    Milt1 12.278 27 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...
    ACri 12.294 16 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    MLit 12.311 1 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...
    EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.
    PPr 12.388 21 ...[Carlyle] never wrote one dull line.

wrought, v. (39)

    AmS 1.107 20 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    Con 1.307 4 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so.
    YA 1.380 1 In consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    Comp 2.108 25 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions...of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    SL 2.132 1 ...it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;...
    Lov1 2.184 24 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her body thought./
    Lov1 2.186 22 All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman...
    Prd1 2.241 3 ...the world of manners and actions is wrought of one stuff...
    Cir 2.303 5 Better than the hand and nimbler was the invisible thought which wrought through it;...
    NR 3.247 2 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    UGM 4.3 17 [Great men's] names are wrought into the verbs of language...
    UGM 4.17 10 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.
    ShP 4.190 25 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in.
    ShP 4.199 25 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor, when a thousand wrought like one...
    NMW 4.227 25 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.235 14 [Napoleon] laid his bones to, and wrought for his crown.
    ET1 5.5 25 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities...
    ET4 5.49 22 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    ET10 5.168 14 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam].
    ET14 5.237 7 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    ET17 5.297 23 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought...
    CbW 6.256 23 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Civ 7.28 15 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his, never wrought by needle and thread...
    Elo1 7.92 19 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Farm 7.146 18 Whilst these grand energies [of Nature] have wrought for him...[the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    SovE 10.185 6 ...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    GSt 10.503 7 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    EWI 11.141 27 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    FSLN 11.218 12 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    ALin 11.334 20 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
    HCom 11.340 8 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    CPL 11.501 20 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter...
    II 12.82 26 [A man] takes delight in working, not in having wrought.
    CL 12.143 15 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    CL 12.160 21 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.
    Milt1 12.248 12 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    ACri 12.298 5 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    MLit 12.323 3 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.
    Let 12.403 10 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...and reports that a miracle had been wrought.

wrung, v. (1)

    TPar 11.290 12 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...

wry, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.142 14 ...if it is from eternity a settled fact that [the solitary man] and society shall be nothing to each other, why need he...make wry faces to keep up a freshman's seat in the fine world?

Wurmser, Dagobert Siegmund, (1)

    NMW 4.251 23 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...

Wyclif [Wickliffe], John, n (1)

    PC 8.214 19 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.

Wyclif [Wicliffe], John, n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 20 Latimer, Wicliffe, Arundel...are the democrats, as well a the saints of their times.

Wyclifs [Wicliffes], n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 12 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams, Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.

Wykeham, William of, n. (2)

    ET4 5.47 10 How came such men as...William of Wykeham, Walter Raleigh...
    ET16 5.289 27 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...and, later, in his own church, William of Wykeham.

Wykeham's, William of, n. (1)

    ET16 5.290 15 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

Wyman, Jeffries, n. (1)

    CW 12.177 3 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...

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