W to Wapping
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
W, n. (2)
Comc 8.168 10 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and
so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is
that W?
Comc 8.168 12 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and
so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is
that W?
wa, n. (1)
MLit 12.312 22 The poetry and speculation of the age
are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from
the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...of
Hardiknute, Stately stept he east the wa,/ And stately stept he
west,/...
Waban, n. (3)
HDC 11.36 6 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the
Massachusetts Indians], with Waban his son-in-law, lived near
Nashawtuck...
HDC 11.51 20 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached
his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban,
Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban,
besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
Wabash River, n. (1)
War 11.166 15 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel
that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as
left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this
feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the
marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants, peaceful pioneers at
the fountains of the Wabash and the Missouri.
Wachusett, Massachusetts, n. (1)
HDC 11.51 13 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of
Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their
desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
Wachusett, Mount, Massachus (2)
Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land
in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his
windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills,
Wachusett...
CL 12.157 5 Can you bring home the summits of
Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?
Wachusett Mountain, Massach (1)
HDC 11.39 5 The majestic summits of Wachusett and
Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure
westward.
Wacic the Caliph, n. (1)
Pray 12.351 19 Wacic the Caliph...ended his
life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity
one whose dignity is so transient.
wadded, adj. (1)
OA 7.316 9 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often
detected the like deception in the...wadded pelisse...of Age.
wade, v. (4)
HDC 11.33 7 Sometimes passing through thickets...and
[the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they
missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to
their knees...
ACiv 11.303 26 The one power that has legs long
enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at
this hour;...
CL 12.144 16 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin
the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them,
that...the traveller had nothing for it but to wade in the streams.
waded, v. (1)
waders, n. (1)
wading, v. (2)
NMW 4.246 13 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible
resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange
situations!...wading in the gulf of the Isthmus of Suez.
Pow 6.69 11 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...wading up the snowy Himmaleh;...
wafer, n. (2)
Civ 7.22 25 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax
or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes
to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon
as a fine meter of civilization.
Supl 10.164 3 Like the French, [those with the
superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you
have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
wafted, v. (1)
EurB 12.369 17 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in
the air, and was wafted up and down into lone and into populous
places...
Wafthrudnir, n. (3)
Clbs 7.237 20 Odin comes to the threshold of the
Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that
he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir
shall put.
wafting, v. (1)
Wth 6.83 7 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/
Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock
abrade?/
wager, n. (1)
Chr2 10.102 6 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was,
There is no steadfast man on earth.
wages, n. (22)
YA 1.374 7 ...the principle of population is always
reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be
sustained.
ET4 5.48 27 Trades and professions carve their own
lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not
less effective; as...open market, or good wages for every kind of
labor;...
ET5 5.87 22 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the
Englishman's] day's wages... he will fight to the Judgment.
ET10 5.158 24 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny,
and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one
spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom
was improved further. But the men would sometimes strike for wages and
combine against the masters...
ET10 5.159 4 Iron and steel are very obedient.
Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not
rebel...nor strike for wages...
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 6.110 15 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and
though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of
taxes.
Wsp 6.231 10 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on
the nature of his act but on the wages...is almost equally low.
Schr 10.259 2 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought
is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
LLNE 10.367 5 The country members [at Brook Farm]
naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and
one looked out of the window all day...and both received at night the
same wages.
EWI 11.101 20 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are
convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
EWI 11.124 5 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant
scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes
could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go,
for high wages, and bring us the men...
EWI 11.124 16 The sugar [the negroes] raised was
excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the
cotton clothed the world. What! all raised by these men, and no wages?
EWI 11.125 12 It was shown to the planters...that
though they paid no wages, they got very poor work;...
EWI 11.126 8 It was very easy for manufacturers...to
see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves
would be clothed, would build houses...
ACiv 11.307 16 Now, [the Southern people's] interest
is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they
must pay wages, their interest will be to let it in...
ACiv 11.308 24 What is so foolish as the terror lest
the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white
man, red man, yellow man and black man. All like wages...
FRep 11.511 15 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who
draw the wages of artists...
MAng1 12.236 5 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo]
one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them
back.
PPr 12.381 19 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the exhortation to the workman that he shall respect the work
and not the wages;...
waging, v. (1)
NMW 4.231 13 [Bonaparte] respected the power of
nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of
valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
wagon, n. (10)
MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his
own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
Hist 2.22 25 A man of rude health and flowing
spirits...lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily
as a Calmuc.
Comp 2.114 3 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon,
a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
Mrs1 3.153 24 Are you...rich enough to make the
Canadian in his wagon... feel the noble exception of your presence and
your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
Civ 7.28 24 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every
instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star...
Cour 7.258 16 ...I remember when a pair of Irish
girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said
that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not
see the horse.
LLNE 10.346 5 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to
sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo buffalo-robe under the
shed...
War 11.162 10 You forget that the quiet...which lets
the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect
understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand
behind there...
FSLC 11.193 4 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly
Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the
hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of
his escape, and he would lend it.
wagons, n. (5)
SMC 11.364 3 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was
encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching
orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons...
SMC 11.372 21 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;
and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short
space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and
procure a change of clothes...
MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and
night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.
wagon-wheel, n. (1)
wags, v. (1)
War 11.170 25 The next season...the party this man
votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly
he wags his head the other way...
Wahrheit, Dichtung und [Goe (1)
GoW 4.286 10 This idea [that a man exists for
culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit...
waif, n. (3)
Exp 3.65 8 Right to hold land, right of property, is
disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and
spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful
purposes.
Wth 6.101 22 The farmer is covetous of his dollar,
and with reason. It is no waif to him.
Imtl 8.345 1 Do you think that the eternal chain of
cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for
immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
wailing, adj. (3)
CbW 6.263 11 I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing,
distracted phantom...
Ill 6.322 15 Like sick men in hospitals, we change
only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify
much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures...
EWI 11.98 6 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning
ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate
his sire bequeathed,-/ Hapless sire to hapless son,-/ Was the wailing
song he breathed,/ And his chain when life was done./
wailing, n. (3)
HDC 11.40 2 ...the wailing of the tempest in the
woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the
smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
LVB 11.95 10 ...the steps of this crime [the
relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick
time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes
until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes
shall afflict the ear of the world.
EPro 11.326 13 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music...
wailing, v. (2)
SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the
sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
Supl 10.163 16 [Those who share the superlative
temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life,-wailing, praying,
exclaiming, swearing.
Wain, Charles's, n. (1)
Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will
help. We shall find all their teams going the other way,--Charles's
Wain, Great Bear...every god will leave us.
wainscoted, v. (1)
ET6 5.107 17 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is
wainscoted, carved, curtained...
wainscoting, n. (1)
waistcoat, n. (1)
Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat
a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
wait, n. (3)
wait, v. (66)
Nat 1.56 19 Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods,
we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.
MR 1.241 20 ...where there is a fine organization,
apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled
to wait on his thoughts;...
Tran 1.351 4 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest
and rust: but we do not like your work. Then, says the world, show me
your own. We have none. What will you do, then? cries the world. We
will wait.
Tran 1.351 8 We will wait. How long? Until the
Universe beckons and calls us to work. But whilst you wait, you grow
old and useless.
Hist 2.18 12 A lady with whom I was riding in the
forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
SR 2.88 11 ...what the man acquires, is living
property, which does not wait the beck of rulers...
SL 2.161 18 The epochs of our life are...in a thought
which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all
our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this...
Fdsp 2.212 5 Wait, and thy heart shall speak.
Fdsp 2.212 5 Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait
until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you...
Hsm1 2.255 27 Scipio, charged with peculation,
refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for
justification...
Cir 2.316 6 One man thinks justice consists in paying
debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who...makes the
creditor wait tediously.
Pt1 3.6 1 There is no man who does not anticipate a
supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water. These stand
and wait to render him a peculiar service.
Exp 3.76 12 ...the fop contrived to dress his
bailiffs in his livery and make them wait on his guests at table...
Mrs1 3.134 22 It was...a very natural point of old
feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were
of his sovereign...should wait his arrival at the door of his house.
Mrs1 3.142 15 Fox thanked the man for his confidence
and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must
wait.
NER 3.280 7 The man whose part is taken and who does
not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot
choose but feel.
NMW 4.246 24 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the
pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he
pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...
ET12 5.213 4 It is easy to carp at colleges, and the
college, if we will wait for it, will have its own turn.
Wsp 6.226 3 He who has acquired the ability may wait
securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
Wsp 6.229 5 If we will sit quietly, what [people]
ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not
care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking
through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim
chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior
shall speak again.
CbW 6.273 26 We know that all our training is to fit
us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long
shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
Bty 6.288 1 We know [our friends] have intervals of
folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and
beautiful.
Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in
this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can
be tortured into a precedent...
PI 8.71 6 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but
related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic
curve.
Grts 8.311 1 Let the student...sedulously wait every
morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the
spirit will give him.
Dem1 10.13 13 For Spiritism, it shows that no man,
almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere
among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest
them on any legends. If I have no facts, as you allege, I can very well
wait for them.
Chr2 10.89 5 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/
Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to
the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to
be./
Edc1 10.137 3 Nature, when she sends a new mind into
the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes
it to know and do. Let us wait and see what is this new creation...
Edc1 10.150 22 [In colleges] You have to work for
large classes instead of individuals; you must lower your flag and reef
your sails to wait for the dull sailors;...
Edc1 10.151 7 What tranquil mind will [the college]
have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties, to
wait and to suffer?
Edc1 10.154 23 ...in this world of hurry and
distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason...
Edc1 10.156 5 Can you not baffle the impatience and
passion of the child by your tranquillity? Can you not wait for him, as
Nature and Providence do?
SovE 10.191 20 ...the spasms of Nature are years and
centuries, and it will tax the faith of man to wait so long.
Schr 10.270 17 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may
well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited
six thousand years for an observer like myself.
Schr 10.287 14 [The scholar] is still to decline how
many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait.
Plu 10.293 8 Strange that the writer of so many
illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of
minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other
bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement.
FSLC 11.207 9 ...shall we, as we are advised on all
hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery
lie by? I fear not.
FSLC 11.209 6 'T is said [buying the slaves] will
cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution
that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of
his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his
monument;...
CPL 11.495 14 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these
advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
PLT 12.5 25 ...when I look at the tree or the river
and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they
are by no means unimpressive. I wait for them...
PLT 12.51 18 You say thought is a penurious rill.
Well, we can wait.
PLT 12.51 19 Nature is immortal, and can wait.
MLit 12.329 11 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well
allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same
regeneration.
Let 12.394 26 By the slightest possible concert,
persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think
that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each
other to the best activity. They believe that this society...would give
their genius that inspiration which it seems to wait in vain.
waited, v. (22)
MR 1.230 11 Had I waited a day longer to speak, I had
been too late.
Con 1.312 22 Providence takes care...that you are
waited for, and come accredited;...
Prd1 2.240 4 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with
people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
Nat2 3.184 17 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for
the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the
balls rolled.
ShP 4.217 13 [Shakespeare] converted the elements
which waited on his command, into entertainments.
ET5 5.93 11 It is England whose opinion is waited for
on the merit of a new invention, an improved science.
Art2 7.48 4 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and
his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
Comc 8.174 7 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with
laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some
remedy for excessive melancholy...
Supl 10.166 13 Think how much pains astronomers and
opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens. Discovery in the
heavens has waited for it; discovery on the face of the earth not less.
MoL 10.246 8 Dickens complained that in America, as
soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on
him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
Schr 10.270 12 For [the poet] arms, art, politics,
trade, waited like menials...
Schr 10.270 19 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may
well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited
six thousand years for an observer like myself.
Plu 10.304 26 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner
of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the
incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that
waited on Lysis, presided over him...
SlHr 10.438 14 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen
waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous
voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered
his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
SlHr 10.445 25 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to
[Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you
out of the Revised Statutes.
EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies],
[the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would
make;...
Koss 11.397 19 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all
your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen
with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers
opened our Revolution. Therefore, we sat and waited for you.
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and
hospitals...
CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well
wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years
for an observer like myself.
waiters, n. (2)
Farm 7.144 2 The good rocks, those patient waiters,
say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
Carl 10.491 1 Forster of Rawdon described to me a
dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried
Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began
to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that
frightened the whole company.
waiting, adj. (3)
DSA 1.151 4 What hinders that now...you speak the
very truth...and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men...
LE 1.187 6 Ask not...Who is the better for the
philosopher who...hides his thoughts from the waiting world?
Art2 7.56 4 Who carved marble? The believing man, who
wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
waiting, n. (7)
DSA 1.143 9 ...the motive that holds the best there
[in the church] is now only a hope and a waiting.
Tran 1.353 13 Much of our reading, much of our labor,
seems mere waiting;...
Prch 10.219 14 It looks as if there were much doubt,
much waiting, to be endured by the best.
MMEm 10.429 15 [God] communicates this our condition
and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive
Him.
FSLN 11.231 6 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as
near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with
which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory
was despair; the Whig wisdom was only...a waiting to be last devoured.
PLT 12.56 17 There are two theories of life;... One
is activity... The other is trust...consent to be nothing for eternity,
entranced waiting...
waiting, v. (22)
Comp 2.126 19 The death of a dear friend, wife,
brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later
assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...terminates
an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed...
Cir 2.311 4 We all stand waiting, empty...
NR 3.235 16 The reason of idleness and of crime is
the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time
with jokes...
ET11 5.188 22 In these [English] manors...the
antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history
unbroken and waiting for its interpreter...
Wsp 6.235 27 [Benedict said] I would not degrade
myself by casting about in my memory for a thought, nor by waiting for
one.
SS 7.5 6 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such
great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my
corporeal jacket...
Civ 7.29 10 ...the astronomer, having by an
observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as
waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put
the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and
his second...
Boks 7.192 1 In a library we are surrounded by many
hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two,
ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that
they must not speak until spoken to;...
Boks 7.205 20 Now having our idler safe down as far
as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses; for
here are trusty hands waiting for him.
Insp 8.276 17 We are waiting until some tyrannous
idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty
with which we are falling abroad.
Prch 10.230 15 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that
opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology,
for those large liberties.
Prch 10.230 19 The existence of the Sunday, and the
pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very
conditions, the pou sto he wants.
GSt 10.507 3 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...was never called... to see that others were waiting for his
place and privilege...I count him happy among men.
EPro 11.317 4 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant
policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public
sentiment of the country, waiting only till it should be unmistakably
pronounced...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have
bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we
are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and
virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of
SMC 11.348 3 Think you these felt no charms/ In their
gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the
door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/
Shak1 11.448 18 We say to the young child in the
cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here
is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
FRep 11.521 10 ...we can all count the few
cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought without waiting
for orders...
CW 12.171 17 ...I have a problem long waiting for an
engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that
shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles
away.
waitings, n. (1)
waits, v. (21)
Chr1 3.110 8 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred
ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
Chr1 3.110 11 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a
sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
Chr1 3.113 14 A divine person is the prophecy of the
mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the
fulfilment of these two in one.
UGM 4.9 15 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal,
grain of dust, has its relation to the brain. It waits long, but its
turn comes.
GoW 4.264 4 Whatever can be thought...still rises for
utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass
it, it waits and works...
ET18 5.305 22 These poor tortoises [the English] must
hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet
somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour.
Bty 6.283 15 A deep man believes in miracles, waits
for them...
Suc 7.294 19 I pronounce that young man happy who is
content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits
willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
PI 8.1 19 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly
to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human
age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PC 8.227 26 To know in each social crisis how men
feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads
no telegrams.
Insp 8.276 2 The result of the [literary] hack is
inconceivable to the type-setter who waits for it.
Dem1 10.10 24 We doubt not a man's fortune may be
read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology: the lines are all
there, but the reader waits.
Dem1 10.23 8 ...the so-called fortunate man is
one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is.
War 11.149 3 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
FRep 11.535 13 Here let there be what the earth waits
for,-exalted manhood.
PLT 12.12 6 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system
as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he
clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the
same orbit, and waits for a new opportunity...
wake, n. (1)
wake, v. (23)
LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a
trumpet...to wake the dull...
Chr1 3.106 24 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. Could they dream on still, as
angels, and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
ShP 4.190 2 A great man does not wake up on some fine
morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an
Antarctic continent...
ET4 5.69 4 ...the bullies of the costermongers of
Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake
up.
Cour 7.272 14 Everything feels the new breath [of
courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the
trumpet of resurrection could not wake.
PPo 8.263 11 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All
night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/
And a bolster of thy breast./
Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;
as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or
conversation could... wake the fancy and the clear perception.
Insp 8.285 11 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to
the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my
lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the
young man./
Insp 8.285 21 ...the love-filled singers
[nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet
melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my
lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me
sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
Chr2 10.95 8 High instincts, before which our mortal
nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they
what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the
master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to
make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal
silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
MMEm 10.411 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her
attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of
monotonous Sabbaths...
FSLC 11.179 9 I wake in the morning with a painful
sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that
ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
CPL 11.508 7 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they
set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the
sentiment...
FRep 11.524 23 These [the good and wise] we just join
to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and
will the age maintain./
FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of
which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it
with energy.
CW 12.178 14 ...[trees] grow, when you wake and when
you sleep, at nobody's cost...
Wake, William, n. (2)
Plu 10.317 6 In his dedication of the work
[Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Wake,
[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age,
and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
LS 11.4 10 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud
and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an
Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
waked, v. (8)
UGM 4.24 15 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged
the due inertia in every creature...the anger at being waked or
changed?
ET17 5.294 17 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr.
Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed,
as an old man suddenly waked before he had ended his nap;...
QO 8.199 9 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his
bed...sleeping again, he saw and heard the speakers as before: and this
as often as he slept or waked.
PerF 10.80 15 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to
the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot
his duty, the judge himself beat time...
LLNE 10.343 20 ...the intelligence and character and
varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims
and results.
Thor 10.470 11 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up
from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of
the year it was within two days.
FRep 11.538 18 ...if the spirit which...put forth
such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could
be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just
and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of
religious...obeyers of duty...
Wakefield, Vicar of [Oliver (1)
PI 8.43 13 I have heard that the Germans think...that
Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is...derived from the Vicar of
Wakefield.
wakes, v. (11)
SR 2.62 20 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot,
but now and then wakes up...
Exp 3.77 15 The subject is the receiver of Godhead,
and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic
might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of
substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect
attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever
in every subject.
UGM 4.17 11 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems
to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
Wth 6.86 12 One man has stronger arms or longer legs;
another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where
land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and
wakes up rich.
Wth 6.115 12 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up
from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning
thought...
CbW 6.271 17 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
Insp 8.280 16 A man is spent by his work, starved,
prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and
wakes with renewed youth...
Prch 10.220 13 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as
unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so
far as to take tacit part with them...
Prch 10.224 15 ...the torpid heart gives no oracle.
When that wakes, it will revolutionize the world.
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books...are forgotten...
waking, adj. (3)
Dem1 10.5 25 In sleep one shall travel certain
roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road
or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon.
Dem1 10.7 24 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an
abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.
waking, n. (1)
waking, v. (8)
SR 2.62 15 That popular fable of the sot...laid in
the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious
ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
WD 7.182 5 Poems have been written between sleeping
and waking, irresponsibly.
Res 8.138 11 A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is
better than waking, and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world
cannot save him from being odious.
QO 8.199 2 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his
bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by
persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the
other side of a proposition;...
QO 8.199 5 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his
bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by
persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the
other side of a proposition; waking, the like suggestions occurred for
and against the proposition as his own thoughts;...
PC 8.205 7 ...as through dreams in watches of the
night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic
hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/
Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
Dem1 10.4 15 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by
spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
Dem1 10.6 4 This feature of dreams deserves the more
attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling
experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that
particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in
the same order before, whether dreaming or waking;...
Wakley, Thomas, n. (1)
EurB 12.366 19 In the debates on the Copyright Bill,
in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted
Wordsworth's poetry in derision...
Walden [Henry Thoreau], n. (1)
Thor 10.476 6 All readers of Walden will remember
[Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...
Walden Pond [Concord, Mass (1)
Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have
grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.
Walden Pond, n. (2)
Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing
as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond.
Wales, n. (5)
ET3 5.37 15 As soon as you enter England, which, with
Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land
stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
ET3 5.42 16 In the variety of surface, Britain is a
miniature of Europe, having...Highlands in Scotland, Snowdon in
Wales...
ET4 5.52 26 ...what we think of when we talk of
English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It excludes
Ireland and Scotland and Wales...
ET11 5.180 8 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the
token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in
London,--the crags of Argyle...the iron of Wales...are neither
forgetting nor forgotten...
Wales, Prince of, n. (1)
Bost 12.205 4 [The people of Massachusetts]
knew...that the most noble motto was that of the Prince of Wales,-I
serve...
walk, n. (27)
MR 1.227 18 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or
a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with
the spiritual world.
Con 1.315 13 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle
mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how
they were perplexed in their daily walk lest they should fail in their
duty to them.
Hist 2.15 20 A particular picture or copy of verses,
if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the
same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
PPh 4.72 7 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to
go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within
doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
ET1 5.22 3 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden,
and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were
composed.
ET17 5.296 26 A gentleman in the neighborhood told
the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth,
and slipping out every day, under pretence of a walk, to the Swan Inn
for a cold cut and porter;...
Bhr 6.182 10 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice,
the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
Art2 7.46 12 The effect of music belongs how much to
the place, as...the moonlight walk;...
Clbs 7.227 15 The physician helps [people]
mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind. The
dinner, the walk, the fireside, all have that for their main end.
Suc 7.304 12 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to
look back, his friend was walking behind him.
Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the
country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little
knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants,
rocks, astronomy; in short, the art of taking a walk.
Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more
than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his
first walk across the nursery-floor...
SovE 10.184 11 ...all the animals show the same good
sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend
does;...
MMEm 10.413 9 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in
the morning walk, a foreigner...
SlHr 10.438 2 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to
South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for
him...to take his daily walk...
SlHr 10.438 11 ...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform
practice of his daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
Thor 10.449 7 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures
more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned
men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
CL 12.147 16 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a
walk in the woods should have been offered.
CL 12.158 20 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to
take a walk...
AgMs 12.358 1 In an afternoon in April, after a long
walk, I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
walk, v. (84)
MN 1.209 16 As children in their play run behind each
other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is
the spirit our unseen pilot.
Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk
alone, accuses the whole world;...
Tran 1.355 9 Our virtue totters and trips, does not
yet walk firmly.
Hist 2.20 13 No one can walk in a road cut through
pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of
the grove...
Hist 2.38 26 [A man] shall walk, as the poets have
described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful
events and experiences;...
SR 2.43 6 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still./
SR 2.63 15 The joyful loyalty with which men have
everywhere suffered the king...to walk among them by a law of his
own...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the
right of every man.
Comp 2.126 5 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like
those monsters who look backwards.
Prd1 2.237 12 He who wishes to walk in the most
peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to
resolution.
Hsm1 2.259 17 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk
serenely on her way...
Hsm1 2.262 19 I see not any road of perfect peace
which a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it
is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
Int 2.328 17 You cannot with your best deliberation
and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall
bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the
matter before sleep on the previous night.
Int 2.331 23 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth
will take form and clearness to me.
Pt1 3.40 18 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or
exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as
exponent of his meaning.
Pt1 3.42 24 ...though thou [O poet] shouldst walk the
world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or
ignoble.
Mrs1 3.119 15 If the house do not please [the
inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another...
Nat2 3.170 22 How easily we might walk onward into
the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was
crowded out of the mind...
Pol1 3.218 6 [What we do] may throw dust in [our
companions'] eyes, but does not...give us the tranquillity of the
strong when we walk abroad.
NER 3.253 1 ...the man must walk, wherever boats and
locomotives will not carry him.
NER 3.275 16 ...a naval and military honor...the
acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate
that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of
some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
NER 3.280 3 It only needs that a just man should walk
in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a
contrivance is our legislation.
UGM 4.9 24 It would seem as if each [creature and
quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer. Each must be
disenchanted and walk forth to the day in human shape.
PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and
weep, write verses and walk alone...
ShP 4.215 3 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount
and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant
direction...
GoW 4.276 20 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this
imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a
gentleman...and walk in the streets...
ET4 5.70 18 The French say that Englishmen in the
street always walk straight before them like mad dogs.
ET5 5.79 15 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. They
are the steps by which we walk in all our businesses.
ET5 5.96 8 No man [in England] can afford to walk,
when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET11 5.186 27 [The English]...walk by their faith in
their painted May-Fair as if among the forms of gods.
ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars
and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air. I seem to
walk on a marble floor, where nothing will grow.
ET16 5.288 7 As I had thus taken in the conversation
the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out
before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the
wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma,
by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle
followed, and I went last.
ET18 5.305 4 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk
with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
Wsp 6.226 19 ...the divine assessors who came up with
[a man] into life... walk with him, step for step...
Wsp 6.231 21 Fear God, and where you go, men shall
think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
Ill 6.317 19 'T is the charm of practical men that
outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they
led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
WD 7.171 20 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should
find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched
above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me
now...
Clbs 7.232 19 Some men love only to talk where they
are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering
people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at
his ease and jolly, for he can walk out without ceremony when he
pleases.
OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom
he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk
in the old town-house...
OA 7.333 25 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom
he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk
in the old town-house, adding, And I wish I could walk as well as he
did.
OA 7.334 2 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose,
sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as
well as he.
PI 8.59 16 Another bard in like tone says ... I know
a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds,
when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
SA 8.83 13 Whilst one man by his manners pins me to
the wall, with another I walk among the stars.
Comc 8.163 11 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty
of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk
gingerly...
Edc1 10.151 6 What tranquil mind will [the college]
have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
SovE 10.206 7 Superstitious persons we see with
respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination,
to which they pay homage.
Prch 10.236 7 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let
us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our
feet walk in the streets of a little town...
MMEm 10.410 13 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth
Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with
Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
Thor 10.465 16 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young
men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very
slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society
at their houses, or even at his own. Would he not walk with them? He
did not know.
EWI 11.131 23 The rich men may walk in State Street,
but they walk without honor;...
EWI 11.131 24 The rich men may walk in State Street,
but they walk without honor;...
War 11.164 25 You shall hear, some day, of a wild
fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built
great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a
hundred presses printing a million sheets; you shall see men and horses
and wheels made to walk, run and roll for it...
War 11.171 11 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God,
which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of
him and let him now be clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
Wom 11.412 16 [Women] emit from their pores...wave
upon wave of rosy light, in which they walk evermore...
CL 12.144 15 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin
the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it
was impossible to walk in the country...
CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the
measure of rhymes they make or remember.
walked, v. (40)
LE 1.179 3 Napoleon...putting aside the guns of those
nearest him, walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went
through the motions in the French mode.
LT 1.281 27 Our forefathers walked in the world and
went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...
Cir 2.307 16 I thought as I walked in the woods and
mused on my friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?
Int 2.346 2 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air
of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords who have
walked in the world...
Exp 3.43 16 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/
I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/
Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled
look:--/...
Chr1 3.90 23 ...Hercules...conquered whether he
stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever thing he did.
SwM 4.101 14 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full
velvet dress, and, whenever he walked out, carried a gold-headed cane.
SwM 4.142 5 Shall the archangels be less majestic and
sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
ET1 5.24 12 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a
better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...
ET14 5.243 21 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty
sides of Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps...
ET15 5.265 15 I went one day with a good friend to
The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty
garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some
circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill;...
ET16 5.276 26 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round
the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...
ET16 5.279 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and
out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of
Stonehenge].
ET16 5.285 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out, and
walked over the estate [at Wilton Hall].
CbW 6.245 11 ...[the priest] walked to the church
without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or
could heal it.
SS 7.1 23 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The
winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...
DL 7.101 4 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up
which the incarnate soul must climb,/ And paused for them, and looked
around,/ With me who walked through space and time./
Elo2 8.127 13 ...when once going to preach the
Thursday lecture in Boston (which in those days people walked from
Salem to hear), on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was
informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and
was drowned...
Insp 8.280 6 Sydney Smith said: You will never break
down in a speech on the day when you have walked twelve miles.
MMEm 10.414 21 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked
out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper
to me...
HDC 11.27 4 Each of these landlords walked amidst his
farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./
HDC 11.86 16 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have
been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and
excellent persons, who walked meekly through the paths of common
life...
EWI 11.116 13 At Grace Bay, [the day following
emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white,
formed a procession, and walked arm in arm into the chapel.
EWI 11.129 20 As I have walked in the pastures and
along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those
agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
FSLN 11.221 26 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill]
was a place for behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked
through his part with entire success.
CL 12.137 19 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people
suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by
some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a
year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were
first turned out to grass...
CL 12.141 22 You shall never break down in a speech,
said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
Bost 12.206 25 From...the Quaker women who for a
testimony walked naked into the streets...down to Abner
Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent
and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
AgMs 12.359 27 I walked up and down the field, as
[Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow...
AgMs 12.360 2 I walked up and down the field, as
[Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked.
walker, n. (2)
walkers, n. (2)
CL 12.155 13 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and
performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
walking, adj. (3)
AmS 1.83 16 The state of society is one in which the
members...strut about so many walking monsters...
F 6.43 3 Each of these men, if they were transparent,
would seem to you not so much men as walking cities...
Walking, Art of, n. (1)
walking, n. (7)
ET12 5.204 17 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept,
by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the
top of their condition...
PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids,
neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to
resist the palsy of mis-association.
CL 12.135 19 Travel and walking have this apology,
that Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses
to emigrate...
CL 12.141 27 Walking, said Rousseau, has something
which animates and vivifies my ideas.
CL 12.157 2 In happy hours, I think all affairs may
be wisely postponed for this walking.
walking, v. (29)
LT 1.280 11 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the
state of Georgia, or Alabama...walking here on our north-eastern
shores.
Tran 1.331 17 ...how easy it is to show [the
materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid
phantoms...
Exp 3.48 6 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads
walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
NMW 4.240 18 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs.
Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
ET1 5.19 10 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a
fall, when walking with two lawyers...
ET12 5.211 8 No doubt much of the power and
brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or
hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles
more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives
at as robust exegesis...
Wsp 6.208 10 In our large cities the population is
godless, materialized,-- no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm.
These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
Boks 7.202 2 If any one who had read with interest
the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called
Providence by Synesius...he...like one walking in the noblest of
temples, will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
Suc 7.304 13 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to
look back, his friend was walking behind him.
PI 8.16 3 Walking, working or talking, the sole
question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to
spirit;...
PC 8.219 9 ...in every wise and genial soul we have
England, Greece, Italy, walking...
Aris 10.61 23 ...when the great come by, as always
there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at
sight.
LLNE 10.333 26 [Everett]...speaking, walking,
sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
LLNE 10.345 11 There was a pilgrim in those days
walking in the country who stopped at every door...
Thor 10.455 20 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the
present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...
Thor 10.463 24 One day, walking with a stranger, who
inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied,
Everywhere...
EWI 11.130 17 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in
New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working
chained in the streets of that city...
PLT 12.56 5 The right partisan is a heady man,
who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls
among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who
wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by
railroad and by walking across the broken country.
CL 12.136 13 ...in the country, Nature is always
inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from
severe labor.
CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are
not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a
long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the
most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to
wear.
CL 12.143 19 For walking, you must have a broken
country.
CW 12.176 6 In walking with Allston, you shall see
what was never before shown to the eye of man.
MAng1 12.220 21 Cardinal Farnese one day found
[Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...
walking-stick, n. (2)
MR 1.251 17 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck
more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
ET6 5.105 11 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain,
swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is
made.
walks, n. (16)
Lov1 2.177 3 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/
Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/
Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing
groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
Pt1 3.9 19 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics]
is the landscape-garden of a modern house...with well-bred men and
women standing and sitting in the walks and terraces.
ET12 5.206 3 If a young American...were offered a
home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical
palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
PI 8.45 23 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of
rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in
wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.
PI 8.55 17 Welcome, folded arms and fixed
eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save
bats and owls;/...
Thor 10.465 18 There was nothing so important to
[Thoreau] as his walk; he had no walks to throw away on company.
EWI 11.129 15 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out
the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide
realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other
thoughts.
Mem 12.103 18 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over
again the sunny walks of youth;...
CL 12.141 27 In the English universities, the reading
men are daily performing their punctual training in the
boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals, walks of eight and
ten miles.
CW 12.174 26 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so
shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.
walks, v. (23)
LT 1.274 9 [The wealthy man] entertains [the
divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays,
is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his
religion walks abroad at eight...
Hsm1 2.247 19 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I
think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have
vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./
Pt1 3.40 17 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or
exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as
exponent of his meaning.
Mrs1 3.125 18 A plentiful fortune is reckoned
necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a
material deputy which walks through the dance which [power] has led.
UGM 4.11 15 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the
quadruped, and walks;...
ET6 5.104 24 Each man [in England] walks, eats,
drinks, shaves...in his own fashion...
ET6 5.105 9 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain,
swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is
made.
Elo1 7.71 24 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks
broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground, but
he, like a leader, walks about the bands of the men.
Boks 7.189 7 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The
shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his
passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
Clbs 7.227 10 The clergyman walks from house to house
all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
Suc 7.298 15 [The city boy in the October woods] is
the king he dreamed he was; he walks through tents of gold...
PI 8.30 11 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper
insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it as the
man who sees his way walks in it.
QO 8.204 2 Only as braveries of too prodigal power
can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of
petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and
blushes again here in the street.
PC 8.223 26 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass
and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little
creature that walks on the earth!
Aris 10.60 11 The solitariest man who shares [a
certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...
wall, n. (60)
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.
LT 1.265 16 Could we indicate the indicators...so
that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known
form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of
sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of
ours.
Hist 2.10 10 What the former age has epitomized into
a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all
the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
Hist 2.19 9 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides
of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common
architectural scroll to abut a tower.
Hsm1 2.253 18 When I was in Sogd I saw a great
building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the
wall with large nails.
OS 2.271 26 ...as there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
in the soul...
OS 2.294 10 ...not a valve, not a wall, not an
intersection is there anywhere in nature...
Cir 2.304 23 There is no outside, no inclosing wall,
no circumference to us.
Nat2 3.182 14 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of
stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man
must exist, as readily as the city.
ShP 4.194 16 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was
the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on
pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was
projected from the wall;...
ET4 5.50 16 A child blends in his face...some feature
from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall.
ET5 5.97 10 The last Reform-bill [in England] took
away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
ET9 5.150 19 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...
ET16 5.288 5 As I had thus taken in the conversation
the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out
before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the
wall...
F 6.30 19 We stand against Fate, as children stand up
against the wall in their father's house...
F 6.43 17 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the
want of thought.
Wth 6.91 9 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that
when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity
are frightfully diminished;...
Wth 6.123 18 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will
rebound to you.
Wsp 6.210 7 What [proof of infidelity], like the
externality of churches that...now have perished away till they are a
speck of whitewash on the wall?
Bty 6.291 23 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting
under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning
and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away
attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Bty 6.294 20 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking
every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all
its strength in the poetry of columns.
Bty 6.299 18 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman
possesses such a figure that wherever she...leaves a shadow on the
wall...she confers a favor on the world.
Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood,
the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin
spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice
to chase./
Art2 7.54 18 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone
which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed
the rest.
Art2 7.55 6 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a
circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so
make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a
wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
Farm 7.148 8 In September, when the pears hang
heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest
fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias,
built a high wall...
Farm 7.148 15 The high wall reflecting the heat back
on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
SA 8.81 14 In the most delicate natures, fine
temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
SA 8.83 13 Whilst one man by his manners pins me to
the wall, with another I walk among the stars.
Comc 8.169 10 The lie [in poverty] is in the
surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect
himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite
respect.
PPo 8.262 17 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush
with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the
sun;/...
Dem1 10.3 16 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/
How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain,
rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to
rise, and never feels the crowd./
PerF 10.75 3 Where are the farmer's days gone? See,
they are hid in that stone wall...
FSLC 11.192 21 Against a principle like this [that
immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray
of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
FSLC 11.200 26 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years,
words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive
you to the wall, and when we have you there once more, we will keep you
there and nail you down like base money.
FSLC 11.202 3 [Webster] must learn...that he who was
their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their
mortification,-they have torn down his picture from the wall...
JBB 11.267 4 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well
said that no wall of separation could here exist.
SMC 11.375 17 ...if danger should ever threaten the
homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of
your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
II 12.78 20 ...[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;...
II 12.86 21 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
MAng1 12.224 21 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed
the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist
[Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the
attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were
suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.
MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine
Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment.
ACri 12.291 5 In architecture the beauty is increased
in the degree in which the material is safely diminished; as when you
break up a prose wall, and leave all the strength in the poetry of
columns.
Trag 12.413 2 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic
air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone
wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?
Wall Street, New York Cit (3)
MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to
prophesy'
SA 8.88 4 There are always slovens in State Street or
Wall Street, who are not less considered.
Wallace, William, n. (1)
FRep 11.539 12 It is not by heads reverted...to
Wallace...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the
United States at this time.
walled, adj. (1)
ET11 5.172 5 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks,
all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.
walled, v. (4)
Civ 7.30 4 A puny creature, walled in on every side,
as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor
a thing is man!/...
PC 8.231 18 The great heart will no more complain of
the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the
gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with
iron tube with that purpose...
Waller's, Edmund, n. (1)
PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it. It appears in...Waller's Go, Lovely Rose!...
walls, n. (69)
LE 1.168 26 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered
by the...hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul...
LE 1.183 9 [They whom the student's thoughts have
entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the
dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of
their being.
MR 1.239 20 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls and curtains...
Tran 1.330 24 [The idealist] does not deny the
presence of this table, this chair, and the walls of this room...
SR 2.80 6 ...the walls of the system blend to
[unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the
universe;...
SR 2.80 7 ...the walls of the system blend to
[unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the
universe;...
Comp 2.107 21 The poets related that stone walls and
iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs
of their owners;...
Comp 2.127 2 ...the man or woman who would have
remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the
neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
Fdsp 2.194 21 ...by the divine affinity of virtue
with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me
and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual
character...
OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
The walls are taken away.
Int 2.330 19 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all
over with facts, with thoughts.
Int 2.342 9 He [in whom the love of truth
predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between
which, as walls, his being is swung.
Pt1 3.17 6 ...we are apprised of the divineness of
this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls
are covered with emblems...of the Deity,--in this, that there is no
fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
Exp 3.63 1 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of
Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls
of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see
them;...
Mrs1 3.151 5 ...are there not women...who anoint our
eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once,
our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
Nat2 3.172 21 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine
logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the
sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient
religion.
Nat2 3.178 11 If the king is in the palace, nobody
looks at the walls.
Pol1 3.197 13 Out of dust to build/ What is more than
dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
UGM 4.5 2 The student of history is like a man going
into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new
article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff
still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior
walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
UGM 4.34 8 The vessels on which you read sacred
emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is
sacred, and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the
world.
MoS 4.163 9 ...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.
GoW 4.269 12 There have been times when [the writer]
was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple
walls.
ET1 5.18 9 ...[Carlyle] had the natural
disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls...
ET4 5.53 1 The portraits that hang on the walls in
the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...
ET5 5.75 1 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in
England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls,
and departed.
ET10 5.165 6 An Englishman hears that the Queen
Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod
forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile
to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry,
solid as the walls of Cuma...
ET12 5.200 6 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with
oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from
the walls;...
Ctr 6.148 14 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it
may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it
draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure
to...drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the
year.
Ctr 6.166 1 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get
free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If
Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough
chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and
free,--make way and sing paean!
Wsp 6.233 8 It is related of William of Orange, that
whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning
that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.
Civ 7.17 21 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/
What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible
again/...
DL 7.131 3 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the
Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
Farm 7.147 21 [The tree]...defended itself from the
sun by growing in groves, and from the wind by the walls of the
mountain.
Boks 7.193 24 ...I can seldom go there [to the
Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it
all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
PI 8.27 10 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic
tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this
pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as...the
walls of the houses about him.
Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much
[Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a
door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
Res 8.142 20 ...the walls of a modern house are
perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...
QO 8.187 22 ...if we learn how old are...the fret,
the beads, and other ornaments on our walls...we shall think very well
of the first men, or ill of the latest.
PC 8.231 17 The great heart will no more complain of
the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the
gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
Insp 8.294 7 We esteem nations important, until we
discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring,
the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls
of a human heart the whole realm of truth...found room to exist.
Imtl 8.326 18 ...to keep the body still more sacredly
safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
Edc1 10.138 8 ...we sacrifice the genius of the
pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the
costly mosaics of ancient art which the Greeks left on their temple
walls.
SovE 10.213 19 MoL 10.243 24 The Egyptian built
Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art, and by the paintings
on their interior walls invited us into the secret of the religious
belief whence he drew such power.
MoL 10.251 23 'T is some thirty years since the days
of the Reform Bill in England, when on the walls in London you read
everywhere placards, Down with the Lords.
MoL 10.254 7 ...now not only all the statues of
bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of
the city are utterly gone;...
MoL 10.255 8 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart,
the wide realm of truth...found room to exist.
Schr 10.261 8 ...the society of lettered men is a
university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister
or college...
Carl 10.491 1 Forster of Rawdon described to me a
dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried
Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began
to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that
frightened the whole company.
HDC 11.73 4 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down
their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls...
EWI 11.142 5 If before, [the negro] was taxed with
such stupidity...that he could not set a table square to the walls of
an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the
West Indies;...
FRep 11.536 18 ...every man must have glimmer enough
to keep him from knocking his head against the walls.
CInt 12.114 18 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to
be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-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...
MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of
churches with unclothed figures...
MAng1 12.224 27 After an active and successful
service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was
informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
MAng1 12.225 4 [Michelangelo] replied that it was
useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were
determined not to take care of themselves...
MAng1 12.227 9 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a
movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine
Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is
used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.
ACri 12.297 18 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud
emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly
moderates...
MLit 12.330 24 The vicious conventions, which hem us
in like prison walls...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are
worth in the newspaper.
Trag 12.405 16 ...how the spirit seems already to
contract its domain, retiring within narrower walls by the loss of
memory...
Walpole, Horace, n. (4)
ET10 5.165 14 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole,
Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...
Bty 6.297 6 Walpole says, The concourse was so great,
when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that
even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables
to look at her.
Boks 7.208 27 There is a class [of books] whose value
I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's
Chronicles;...Horace Walpole;...
Supl 10.165 5 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake,
some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Walpole, Robert, n. (1)
Aris 10.51 22 To a right aristocracy...to Sir Robert
Walpole, to Fox, Chatham...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
Walpole's, Horace, n. (1)
Walpurgis Nacht [Johann W. (1)
ACri 12.289 23 Goethe, who had collected all the
diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht,
continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first
occasion had passed...
Walpurgis Sack, n. (1)
ACri 12.289 26 Goethe...professed to point his guest
to his Walpurgis Sack...in which, he said, he put all his dire hints
and images...
Walsingham, England, n. (1)
ACri 12.292 23 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there
being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or
other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...
Walter, John, n. (1)
Walter, John, [Old Walter] (1)
ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has
always been made up of able men. Old Walter, Sterling, Bacon...have
contributed to its renown...
Waltham, Bishops, England, (1)
ET16 5.286 21 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle]
stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who...took us to his house at Bishops
Waltham.
Waltham, England, n. (1)
Waltham, Massachusetts, adj. (1)
Walton, Brian, n. (1)
ET14 5.238 5 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton,
Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
Walton, Isaak, n. (1)
WSL 12.341 13 When we pronounce the names of...Ben
Jonson and Isaak Walton;...we...enter into a region of the purest
pleasure accessible to human nature.
Walton, Izaak [Isaac], n. (3)
ShP 4.203 14 ...I find, among [Wotton's]
correspondents and acquaintances...Isaac Walton, Dr. Donne...
Boks 7.208 3 Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry
Wotton write also to the times.
Boks 7.208 26 There is a class [of books] whose value
I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's
Chronicles;...Izaak Walton;...
waltzes, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.131 24 A sainted soul is always elegant, and,
if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will
Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do
not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.
Wampanoag Indian, n. (2)
HDC 11.59 2 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the
Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
HDC 11.59 17 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to
death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers,
during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet
as sugar was to Englishmen.
Wampanoag Indians, n. (1)
HDC 11.57 27 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind
their hatchets...
Wampanoag Indian's, n. (1)
HDC 11.59 3 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the
Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag, nor the paring
of a Wampanoag's nail...
Wampooas, n. (1)
HDC 11.52 3 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the
squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do
I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I
like what he saith?...
wampum, n. (2)
Pt1 3.19 26 The chief value of the new fact is to
enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of
wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
HDC 11.52 16 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you
have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher
sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your
kettles and your wampum...
Wampumpeag, n. (1)
HDC 11.37 27 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw
Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to
the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag,
hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
wan, adj. (1)
Nat 1.69 19 ...[Man] treads down that which doth
befriend him/ When sickness makes him pale and wan./
wand, n. (1)
Pt1 3.30 6 We seem to be touched by a wand which
makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
wander, v. (20)
Nat 1.63 6 [If Idealism only deny the existence of
matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to
wander without end.
Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
Fdsp 2.213 23 [By persisting in your path] You...draw
to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature
at once...
OS 2.284 11 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed
abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite...
SwM 4.125 22 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived
themselves of charity, wander and flee...
SwM 4.144 9 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate
imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty. We wander forlorn in a
lack-lustre landscape.
ET6 5.105 18 In a company of strangers you would
think [the Englishman] deaf; his eyes never wander from his table and
newspaper.
ET9 5.145 9 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard
foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace
regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
Prch 10.221 17 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the
solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all
day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything
better;...
MMEm 10.397 24 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./
AsSu 11.251 17 ...this noble head [Charles
Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.
The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may
wander in the earth.
II 12.79 22 The thoughts which wander through our
mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of...
Mem 12.104 1 At this hour the stream is still
flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their
accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you
need not wander thither.
CL 12.135 24 The nomads wander over vast territory,
to find their pasture.
CL 12.159 13 ...it was the practice...of the
Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the
towns, into the desert...
ACri 12.285 20 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois
of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries
where they wander...
wandered, v. (4)
CbW 6.266 13 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After
the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to
another, until thou art happy and content in none.
SovE 10.185 24 The believer says to the skeptic:-One
avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal
truth./
MMEm 10.409 6 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over the apartments of social affections...
wanderer, n. (2)
PC 8.207 18 Was ever such coincidence of advantages
in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which
goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration,
permitting every wanderer to choose his climate and government.
PPo 8.254 19 Oft have I said, I say it once more,/ I,
a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
wandering, adj. (7)
Lov1 2.170 15 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its
first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a
wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges...
Lov1 2.179 8 Who can analyze the nameless charm which
glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with
emotions of tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this
dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
Int 2.332 3 A certain wandering light appears, and is
the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
SwM 4.101 17 There is a common portrait of
[Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig, but the face has a wandering or
vacant air.
SMC 11.355 5 ...armies, which are only wandering
cities, generate a vast heat...
Wandering Jew, n. (4)
Boks 7.216 26 Money, and killing, and the Wandering
Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to
another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...
QO 8.186 21 There are many fables which...are said to
be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The
Wandering Jew...
Imtl 8.339 16 The fable of the Wandering Jew is
agreeable to men, because they want more time and land in which to
execute their thoughts.
SHC 11.436 13 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew
agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute
their thoughts in?
wandering, v. (6)
Lov1 2.174 6 ...the coldest philosopher cannot
recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the
power of love...
ET1 5.17 21 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public
persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a
rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
Comc 8.160 8 ...[the man of the world's] eye
wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving
fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
Chr2 10.97 7 In all ages, to all men, [the moral
force] saith, I am; and he who hears it feels the impiety of wandering
from this revelation to any record or to any rival.
Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
CL 12.165 20 If we believed that Nature was...some
rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we
should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
wanderings, n. (1)
PPh 4.65 18 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us
for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in
the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and
that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set
right our own wanderings and blunders.
wanders, v. (1)
ET19 5.311 8 It is this [sense of right and wrong]
which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which
certainly wanders into strange vagaries...but which, if it should lose
this, would find itself paralyzed;...
wane, n. (1)
DL 7.126 24 Beauty is, even in the beautiful,
occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single
moment...after which it is on the wane.
want, n. (142)
Nat 1.15 1 A nobler want of man is served by nature,
namely, the love of Beauty.
AmS 1.95 23 ...exasperation, want, are instructors in
eloquence and wisdom.
LE 1.158 1 The want of the times and the propriety of
this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary
Ethics.
MN 1.191 4 The land we live in has no interest so
dear, if it knew its want, as the fit consecration of days of reason
and thought.
MN 1.212 8 ...there is a certain infatuating air in
woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
MR 1.238 16 A man who supplies his own want, who
builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
MR 1.244 11 Why must [any man] have...access to
public houses and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
Tran 1.350 25 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and
by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor,
we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
Tran 1.351 14 If no call should come for years, for
centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation
of faith by my abstinence.
YA 1.382 1 On one side is agricultural
chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the
information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of
it.
YA 1.384 27 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...whose
government would be... mediation between want and supply.
YA 1.388 2 The people, and the world, are now
suffering from the want of religion and honor in its public mind.
YA 1.395 1 ...Let us live in America, too thankful
for our want of feudal institutions.
Hist 2.24 24 A sparse population and want [in the
Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and
soldier...
SR 2.72 7 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear,
want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
SR 2.80 22 It is for want of self-culture that the
superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated
Americans.
Comp 2.114 5 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon,
a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
Comp 2.117 15 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance
with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the
one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
SL 2.159 21 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he
cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...and the want of
due knowledge,--all blab.
Prd1 2.225 3 [Prudence] respects...climate, want,
sleep...
Int 2.336 2 The rich inventive genius of the painter
must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing...
Exp 3.60 12 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.
Mrs1 3.119 13 The house [of the inhabitants of
Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can
pass through the roof, and there is no door, for there is no want of
one, as there is nothing to lose.
Mrs1 3.150 3 Woman, with her instinct of behavior,
instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and
magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the
hall.
Nat2 3.180 3 Geology has...taught us to...exchange
our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing
rightly, for want of perspective.
Pol1 3.212 8 Want of liberty, by strengthening law
and decorum, stupefies conscience.
NER 3.281 19 Each [man] is incomparably superior to
his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions
has added to his fitness for his own work.
UGM 4.7 9 Certain men affect us as rich
possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times...they do
not speak to our want.
PPh 4.45 23 As soon as [children] can speak and tell
their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
PPh 4.46 9 The same weakness and want, on a higher
plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
SwM 4.134 14 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...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his
virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society. This want reacts
to the centre of the system.
SwM 4.144 11 The entire want of poetry in so
transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
NMW 4.249 3 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the
way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when
the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a
want of confidence in their own courage...
GoW 4.265 7 Society has, at all times, the same
want...
ET5 5.84 12 [The English] are neat husbands for
ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field. All are well
kept. There is no want and no waste.
ET6 5.111 22 The keeping of the proprieties is [in
England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails
the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
ET7 5.121 27 [The English] require the same
adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men. It is the
want of character which makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
ET7 5.122 17 In February, 1848, [the English] said,
Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot;...
ET9 5.148 12 [This little superfluity of self-regard
in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that
each man...loses no opportunity for want of pushing.
ET10 5.153 23 Nelson said, The want of fortune is a
crime which I can never get over.
ET10 5.168 6 It is not, I suppose, want of probity,
so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual
competition of underselling...
ET11 5.192 11 The sycophancy and sale of votes and
honor, for place and title;...the want of ideas;...make the reader
pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these
vices to a handful of rich men.
ET14 5.257 2 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it
raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford...want of popular
tune in the verses.
ET17 5.297 26 ...there is something hard and sterile
in [Wordsworth's] poetry, want of grace and variety...
ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile
in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan
scope...
F 6.39 6 ...the first cell converts itself into
stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
F 6.43 18 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the
want of thought.
Wth 6.118 21 A farm is a good thing when it...does
not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main
link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer
leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the
cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
Ctr 6.141 11 ...I think it the part of good sense to
provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty
or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless
through my want of weapons.
Ctr 6.149 3 ...the want of good conversation [at the
Earl of Devon's] was a very great inconvenience...
Ctr 6.149 7 In the country, in long time, for want of
good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on
them...
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us
the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of
books...
Wsp 6.212 20 It has been charged that a want of
sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American
society.
SS 7.12 19 The capital defect of cold, arid natures
is the want of animal spirits.
Civ 7.25 5 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the
beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to
produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every
hour,--thereby supplying all the ship's want.
Civ 7.29 5 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want
of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
Elo1 7.94 3 The orator is thereby an orator, that he
keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No
gifts...will make any amends for want of this.
WD 7.170 25 'T is pitiful the things by which we are
rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked
Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a
red feather, and the rest miserable in the want of it.
Clbs 7.227 7 The experience of retired men is
positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of
some person to talk with.
OA 7.334 27 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long
sentences, which are interrupted by want of breath...
PI 8.56 10 I know the pride of mathematicians and
materialists, but they cannot conceal from me their capital want.
PI 8.70 15 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this
multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of
electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...
SA 8.83 27 Manners are...the betrayers of any
disproportion or want of symmetry in mind and character.
SA 8.91 15 A universal etiquette should fix an iron
limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave
granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit. There
is inconvenience in such strictness, but vast inconvenience in the want
of it.
SA 8.92 10 Our chief want in life,--is it not
somebody who can make us do what we can?
Elo2 8.127 24 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr.
Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog
Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to
improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his
prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to
them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond. Now this
is not want of talent or learning, but of manliness.
QO 8.203 24 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so
much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the
first narrative appears. For the same reason we dislike that the poet
should choose an antique or far-fetched subject for his muse, as if he
avowed want of insight.
Insp 8.280 26 A man must be able to escape from his
cares and fears, as well as from hunger and want of sleep;...
Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with
fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition
renders what you have done already useless.
Dem1 10.12 20 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because
we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of
the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the
agents.
Aris 10.43 15 ...the origin of most of the
perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of
health.
Edc1 10.142 3 There is no want of example of great
men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
Edc1 10.145 7 Baffled for want of language and
methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child]
conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other
house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the
rules and instruments to execute his will.
Edc1 10.151 23 ...you see [the young man's] want of
those tastes and perceptions which make the power and safety of your
character.
Supl 10.164 19 From want of skill to convey quality,
we hope to move admiration by quantity.
Prch 10.220 6 In proportion to a man's want of
goodness, it seems to him another and not himself;...
MoL 10.245 8 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to
Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
Schr 10.276 22 How many young geniuses we have known,
and none but ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a
little talent!
Plu 10.294 15 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned
by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of
personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of
printing...would suggest to us.
Plu 10.311 20 There is a certain violence in
[Seneca's] opinions, and want of sweetness.
LLNE 10.341 27 ...the men of talent complained of the
want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker
[Alcott].
Thor 10.459 5 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
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./
LS 11.24 12 I have no hostility to this institution
[the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it.
HDC 11.64 13 The public charity seems to have been
bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being
informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to
Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his
present supply.
EWI 11.133 27 ...whilst our very amiable and very
innocent representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners
and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
FSLC 11.184 24 Here are humane people who have tears
for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders
of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party
ties.
FSLN 11.217 10 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this
want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's
watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
FSLN 11.220 14 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was
able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he
failed...to carry parties with him.
FSLN 11.223 27 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source
of inspiration. Hence...the want of generalization in his speeches...
AKan 11.257 2 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and
this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed up to
the magnitude of the want...
ACiv 11.300 8 If the American people hesitate, it is
not for want of warning or advices.
ACiv 11.300 11 The journals have not suppressed the
extent of the calamity. Neither was there any want of argument or of
experience.
ACiv 11.301 19 ...there is no one owner of the state,
but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to
each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...from
want of thought, averse to innovation.
ACiv 11.307 7 ...the North will for a time have its
full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;-not
for want of sincere good will in sensible Southerners...
EdAd 11.392 14 ...this hour when the jangle of
contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more
propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of
religion, because they know his religious constitution...
Wom 11.421 12 Here are two or three objections [to
women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too
purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
Wom 11.421 15 For their want of intimate knowledge of
affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at
any town-meeting which I ever attended.
RBur 11.441 21 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for
want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
FRep 11.522 8 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can
be...no want that cannot be supplied...
FRep 11.529 19 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is
short-coming or is unbecoming in the government,-at the want of
humanity, of morality...
PLT 12.37 6 In its lower function, when it deals with
the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the
performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then
it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all
healthily constituted men, and the want of which the rare and brilliant
sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
CInt 12.122 2 There are bad books and false teachers
and corrupt judges; and in the institutions of education a want of
faith in their own cause.
EurB 12.365 8 Wordsworth's nature or character has
had all the time it needed in order to make its mark and supply the
want of talent.
EurB 12.375 6 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or
of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and
usually of both...
PPr 12.382 27 ...[a man's] acts should be
representative of the human race, as one who makes them rich in his
having, and poor in his want.
Trag 12.408 22 The law which establishes nature and
the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals,
and this in the particulars of disease, want, insecurity and disunion.
Want, n. (5)
Comp 2.91 6 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows
the feud of Want and Have./
Fdsp 2.202 3 He [who offers himself a candidate for
the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time,
Want, Danger, are in the lists...
Ctr 6.165 22 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get
free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If
Love, red Love, with tears and joy; if Want with his scourge;...can set
his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
DL 7.121 18 The angels that dwell with [the eager,
blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful
brows, are Toil and Want...
want, v. (103)
MR 1.246 14 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl,
spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm
people] want...
LT 1.278 1 We do not want actions, but men;...
LT 1.284 18 ...before the young American is put into
jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw
before...
Con 1.309 4 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the
Earth is given to me, what I want of it to till and to plant;...
Con 1.309 13 It is God's world and mine; yours as
much as you want, mine as much as I want.
Con 1.309 23 What you do not want for use, you crave
for ornament...
Con 1.316 1 Then came in the men, and they said, What
cheer, brother? Does thy convent want gifts?
Tran 1.350 24 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and
by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor,
we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
YA 1.386 17 Where is he who seeing a thousand
men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious
himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to
go and be their king?
Fdsp 2.210 10 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a
glance from [my friend] I want...
Fdsp 2.212 22 ...we perceive that no
arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations
with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us
to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with
water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for
we are already they.
Prd1 2.225 20 I want wood or oil, or meal or salt;...
OS 2.278 11 We owe many valuable observations to
people...who say the thing without effort which we want...
Mrs1 3.137 5 I would have a man enter his house
through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might
not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
NR 3.228 4 The men of fine parts protect themselves
by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best
can his incapacity for useful association, but they want either love or
self-reliance.
UGM 4.25 5 Without Plato we should almost lose our
faith in the possibility of a reasonable book. We seem to want but one,
but we want one.
UGM 4.25 6 Without Plato we should almost lose our
faith in the possibility of a reasonable book. We seem to want but one,
but we want one.
MoS 4.180 12 Can you not believe that a man of
earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men...
MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of
earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men...
ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their
desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
ET5 5.82 2 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan, a
working machine...
ET14 5.243 23 The later English want the faculty of
Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight
of general laws...
ET14 5.256 5 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want
the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill...
F 6.38 12 ...If you want a fort, build a fort.
Wth 6.93 11 Power is what [men of sense] want, not
candy;...
Wth 6.107 9 Your paper is not fine or coarse
enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will
furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...
Wth 6.113 6 We are sympathetic, and, like children,
want everything we see.
Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis.
CbW 6.259 1 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I
want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
DL 7.117 25 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates know what
they want;...
Boks 7.196 16 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some
foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.
Suc 7.287 23 These boasted arts are of very recent
origin. They...do not really add to our stature. The greatest men of
the world have managed not to want them.
PI 8.33 24 We want design, and do not forgive the
bards if they have only the art of enamelling. We want an architect,
and they bring us an upholsterer.
Insp 8.276 5 We must prize our own youth. Later, we
want heat to execute our plans...
Insp 8.287 12 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in
your closet?
Insp 8.289 27 We not only want time, but warm time.
Aris 10.47 7 I never feel that any man occupies my
place, but that the reason why I do not have what I wish, is, that I
want the faculty which entitles.
Supl 10.164 3 Like the French, [those with the
superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you
have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
SovE 10.204 9 The religion of seventy years ago was
an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude
people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the
eternal world. Now men...want polarity...
Schr 10.276 11 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea
full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want
it...we will buy it with millions.
Plu 10.297 15 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers,
what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the
story without searching for it at first hand...
MMEm 10.415 10 Vital, I feel not: not active, but
passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
But you are ingrate to tire of me, now you want to look beyond.
Thor 10.475 19 ...if [Thoreau] want lyric fineness
and technical merits [in his poetry]...he never lacks the causal
thought...
EWI 11.118 3 We sometimes say, the planter does not
want slaves, he only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves
yield him;...
ACiv 11.300 20 There are already mountains of facts
[on slavery], if any one wants them. But people do not want them.
ACiv 11.302 7 In this national crisis, it is not
argument that we want...
SMC 11.370 18 ...Word was sent by General Barnes,
that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was
then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order
to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
Wom 11.408 16 So much sympathy as [women] have makes
them inestimable as the mediators between those who have knowledge and
those who want it...
SHC 11.436 14 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew
agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute
their thoughts in?
FRep 11.520 17 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the
spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land
wants manure.
FRep 11.520 18 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the
spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land
wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no
garment to their backs can fit./
FRep 11.536 15 A man does not want to be sun-dazzled,
sun-blind;...
PLT 12.13 15 I think metaphysics a grammar to which,
once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want
only a teaspoonful in a year.
PLT 12.13 19 I want not the logic, but the power, if
any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
Mem 12.93 26 ...in addition to this [photographic]
property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the
million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in
the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
Mem 12.93 27 ...in addition to this [photographic]
property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the
million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in
the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
Bost 12.204 12 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want
epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
MAng1 12.216 24 It is a happiness to find...a soul at
intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the
indescribable charm of the natural world...want observers.
Milt1 12.260 21 The world, no doubt, contains many of
that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds
teem with images which they want words to clothe.
MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of
Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
wanted, v. (52)
YA 1.366 20 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others
can yet grow his own bread, whilst the manufacturer or the trader, who
is not wanted, cannot...
Prd1 2.233 6 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable;
when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Int 2.332 4 A certain wandering light appears, and is
the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
Pt1 3.40 27 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our
respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of
gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
NR 3.240 20 Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted
much.
PPh 4.42 23 Plato absorbed the learning of his
time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he
travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East, to import the
other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind.
PPh 4.43 7 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the
decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he
chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
ShP 4.191 22 ...the religious among the Anglican
church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments]. But the people wanted
them.
ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England
circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which
[Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
NMW 4.230 25 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted,
and such a man was born;...
ET1 5.17 10 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle]
had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find
in that language what he wanted.
ET2 5.26 4 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England
was proposed to me.
ET4 5.71 27 The horse has more uses than Buffon
noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a
bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among
the stables.
ET16 5.283 26 ...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 when so many thousands of English men were
hungry and wanted labor.
ET17 5.296 19 ...in [Wordsworth's] early
house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to
offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything
more, they must pay him for their board.
F 6.39 7 ...the world throws its life into a hero or
a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted.
Wth 6.86 11 One man has stronger arms or longer legs;
another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where
land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and
wakes up rich.
Wsp 6.226 11 You want but one verdict; if you have
your own you are secure of the rest. And yet,if witnesses are wanted,
witnesses are near.
CbW 6.252 8 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect
answer to all sentimental cavils. If he is, he is wanted...
CbW 6.253 19 Edward I. wanted money, armies,
castles...
Civ 7.28 5 ...we found out that the air and earth
were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we
wanted to send [our letters].
Boks 7.191 24 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us
with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and I think no chair is
so much wanted.
OA 7.329 2 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable
experiences...which we may keep for twice seven years before they shall
be wanted.
OA 7.334 3 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose,
sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as
well as he. No, he replied, that was not what I wanted.
QO 8.179 8 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so
also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
MMEm 10.411 22 What a rich day, so fully occupied in
pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel
which for so many years I have wanted.
Thor 10.453 3 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted
money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
Thor 10.453 26 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this
work [surveying] were readily appreciated, and he found all the
employment he wanted.
Thor 10.455 24 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the
present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in
farmers' and fishermen's houses... because there he could better find
the men and the information he wanted.
Thor 10.459 6 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Thor 10.474 22 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or
good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill...
ACiv 11.303 3 I wish I saw in the people that
inspiration which, if government would not obey the same,
would...create on the moment the means and executors it wanted.
ALin 11.334 21 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought
incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to
obtain that.
SMC 11.356 21 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war,-the roughs...men for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who
wanted pain...
Wom 11.418 4 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world
that wanted them.
SHC 11.429 7 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town
[Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as
many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to
call the inhabitants together...
CL 12.146 21 Here [on Estabrook Farm], no hedges are
wanted;...
CL 12.153 9 The freedom [of the sea] makes the
observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we
not learn here a generous eloquence? This was the lesson our starving
poverty wanted.
Bost 12.209 26 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her
liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of
[material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the
rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...she
will furnish what is wanted in the hour of need;...
MLit 12.322 20 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the
magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.
wanting, adj. (18)
CbW 6.273 23 ...who provides wisely that he shall not
be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
Boks 7.211 12 ...[a dictionary] is full of
suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing
is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.
Suc 7.288 3 These [boasted arts] are local
conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not
only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
PPo 8.257 2 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the
olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden
flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
Grts 8.316 15 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors
and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our
household life are wanting...
Grts 8.319 25 It is not examples of greatness, but
sensibility to see them, that is wanting.
SovE 10.192 9 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by
unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may
come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it
never comes...
Plu 10.306 21 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is
wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic
subtleties and logomachy.
SlHr 10.443 7 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's]
conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country,
by which on each occasion it was tried, and sometimes found wanting.
HDC 11.30 21 Here are still around me the lineal
descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is
Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years;
and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not. If
the name of Bulkeley is wanting, the honor you have done me this day,
in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to his
blood.
ALin 11.335 10 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance,
his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and
never found wanting.
CPL 11.497 27 A deep religious sentiment is...an
inspirer of the intellect, and that was not wanting here [in Concord].
Bost 12.207 5 From Roger Williams...down to...William
Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and
innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
wanting, v. (11)
Nat 1.72 25 ...in the thick darkness, there are not
wanting gleams of a better light...
ET5 5.93 22 [The English] are a family to which a
destiny attaches, and the Banshee has sworn that a male heir shall
never be wanting.
Res 8.145 21 Wanting a picket to which to attach my
horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.
Dem1 10.11 25 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took
a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
Chr2 10.95 27 ...no talent gives the impression of
sanity, if wanting this [moral sentiment];...
Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction;...
Thor 10.480 19 Wanting [ambition], instead of
engineering for all America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a
huckleberry-party.
FRep 11.520 18 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the
spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land
wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no
garment to their backs can fit./
PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they
represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike
form...wanting the extremities;...
wanton, adj. (4)
ET11 5.191 7 ...when the baron, educated only for
war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry
brute.
II 12.86 21 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
Milt1 12.261 13 We may even apply to [Milton's]
performance on the instrument of language, his own description of
music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn
out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through
mazes running,/...
wantonly, adv. (2)
EWI 11.118 17 We sometimes observe that spoiled
children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have
charge of them...
War 11.162 4 ...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?
wantonness, n. (2)
Let 12.401 26 ...where the divine nature and the
artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men
deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety
for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...
wants, n. (64)
Nat 1.41 23 The first and gross manifestation of this
truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in
values and wants...
AmS 1.92 13 ...we should suppose...some foresight of
souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future
wants...
Con 1.315 7 ...the cabins of the peasants and the
castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
Tran 1.329 23 The materialist insists...on the force
of circumstances and the animal wants of man;...
SR 2.83 1 ...if the American artist will study...the
precise thing to be done by him, considering...the wants of the
people...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur
of thought] will find themselves fitted...
Prd1 2.223 26 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a
name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants.
Prd1 2.228 19 ...the discomfort of...inattention to
the wants of to-morrow, is of no nation.
Prd1 2.233 11 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which
he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness,
for which he must thank himself.
Exp 3.82 10 A preoccupied attention is the only
answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and
to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
Gts 3.160 22 ...as it is always pleasing to see a man
eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors, so it is
always a great satisfaction to supply these first wants.
ET1 5.17 24 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public
persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a
rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants
to the next house.
Pow 6.68 14 Men of this surcharge of arterial
blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the
Boston Athenaeum.
Wth 6.88 7 ...by making his wants less or his gains
more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in
which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
Wth 6.88 20 ...every thought of every hour opens a
new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
It is of no use to argue the wants down...
Wth 6.91 18 ...if [a man] wishes...having society on
his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to
satisfy.
Bhr 6.181 24 A man finds room in the few square
inches of the face...for the expression of all his history and his
wants.
SS 7.11 10 As soon as the first wants are satisfied,
the higher wants become imperative.
SS 7.11 11 As soon as the first wants are satisfied,
the higher wants become imperative.
Art2 7.55 27 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual
wants, never to please his fancy.
Art2 7.57 4 Popular institutions...and the immense
harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the
boundless liberty of lucrative callings. These are superficial
wants;...
DL 7.112 4 The shortest enumeration of our wants in
this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to
be done.
DL 7.114 11 ...we desire to play the benefactor and
the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
How can we do this, if the wants of each day imprison us in lucrative
labors...
DL 7.116 23 Another age may...make the labors of a
few hours avail to the wants and add to the vigor of the man.
WD 7.162 26 Malthus...forgot to say...that the
augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of
invention.
Clbs 7.242 15 It was to meet these wants that in all
civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by
bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable
conditions.
OA 7.324 24 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature]
implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little
oversupply, of his wants.
OA 7.327 15 ...[man] has...aesthetic wants, domestic,
civil, humane wants.
PI 8.37 27 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined...in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions...
PI 8.58 9 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude
wants of created things./
PI 8.67 27 We must...ask...whether we shall find our
tragedy written in [Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces,
described to the life...
Elo2 8.112 10 There are not only the wants of the
intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met...
Comc 8.169 17 The multiplication of artificial wants
and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling
forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the
man and his appearance] to expose itself.
QO 8.184 12 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that
ran in the author more strictly, and might better judge of his own
wants to supply them.
Insp 8.288 24 At home, I remember in my library the
wants of the farm...
Imtl 8.334 8 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the
secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive
generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance
and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and
perpetuation;...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
Imtl 8.338 13 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing
the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill
elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants
may require?
Edc1 10.127 21 This apparatus of wants and faculties,
this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy
with light, with heat...
Edc1 10.153 22 ...there is always the temptation in
large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each
single mind...
Prch 10.218 7 I see in those classes and those
persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of
to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular
religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
MMEm 10.431 23 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson]
trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events
from the pressure of wants.
Thor 10.453 7 With his hardy habits and few
wants...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
Thor 10.453 10 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to
live in any part of the world. It would cost him less time to supply
his wants than another.
LS 11.21 24 [Christianity] has for its object simply
to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible
as the wants of men.
HDC 11.39 22 Many were [the settlers of Concord's]
wants, but more their privileges.
HDC 11.40 22 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the
settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at
their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
HDC 11.43 19 What could the body of freemen, meeting
four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at
Musketaquid?
HDC 11.44 2 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty,
their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of
the General Court, immunities...
War 11.152 4 ...in the infancy of society...when
hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of
the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will
certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
EdAd 11.390 14 A journal that would meet the real
wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve
the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly
exploring.
Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated
emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and
mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious
vote...
Wom 11.422 27 ...if in your city the uneducated
emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated
and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and
refined persons.
Wom 11.423 1 If the wants, the passions, the vices,
are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
PLT 12.35 13 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal
nature as in human or as in the angelic, and spends its omniscience on
the lowest wants.
wants, v. (57)
DSA 1.142 6 [The soul of the community] wants nothing
so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
MR 1.238 20 What [a man] gets only as fast as he
wants for his own ends, does not embarrass him...
Tran 1.346 19 ...in our experience, man is cheap and
friendship wants its deep sense.
YA 1.381 20 ...the farmer is living in the same town
with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
YA 1.392 8 It is true, the public mind wants
self-respect.
SR 2.85 11 ...being sure of the information when he
wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
Lov1 2.173 22 By and by that boy wants a wife, and
very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet
mate...
Mrs1 3.137 27 Must we have a good understanding with
one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together
know when each wants salt or sugar.
MoS 4.179 11 ...when a man comes into the room it
does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has
contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out
of snow.
ET3 5.34 21 ...England is a huge phalanstery, where
all that man wants is provided within the precinct.
ET13 5.226 4 ...[the religious element] is in its
nature constructive, and will organize such a church as it wants.
ET14 5.244 8 ...a bad general wants myriads of men
and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and
conduct.
F 6.6 20 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes
in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner,
makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
F 6.38 16 The animal cell makes itself;-then, what it
wants.
F 6.44 2 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth
and sea, in vain. Here they are...what [man] wants of them.
Ctr 6.131 15 If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one
at the cost of arms and legs...
Ctr 6.147 14 ...of the six or seven teachers whom
each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or
two of them live on the other side of the world.
CbW 6.261 23 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if
he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...
CbW 6.266 8 There are three wants which never can be
satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the
sick...and that of the traveller...
CbW 6.266 9 There are three wants which never can be
satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick, who wants something
different; and that of the traveller...
Farm 7.146 7 ...there is no porter like Gravitation,
who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants
aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
WD 7.161 21 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,
the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
Clbs 7.223 4 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No
churl, immured in cave or den;/ In bower and hall/ He wants them
all;/...
Cour 7.254 5 Men admire...the man...who has the
impiety to make the rivers run the way he wants them;...
Suc 7.310 19 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.
OA 7.327 12 [Man] wants friends, employment,
knowledge...
Res 8.151 9 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the
country wants all things on a low tone...
Res 8.151 9 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the
country...wants coarse clothes, old shoes...
Aris 10.47 21 Whoever wants more power than is the
legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician...
PerF 10.76 4 ...the wise merchant by truth in his
dealings finds his credit unlimited,-he can use in turn, as he wants
it, all the property in the world...
Supl 10.165 24 ...there is an inverted
superlative...which...wants fan and parasol on the cold Friday;...
Prch 10.230 21 The existence of the Sunday, and the
pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very
conditions, the pou sto he wants.
EWI 11.118 4 We sometimes say, the planter...only
wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
EWI 11.118 9 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a
machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will
thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants
luxury...
JBB 11.272 22 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple
as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends
to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
JBB 11.272 22 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple
as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends
to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness? No, it
wants him for a party;...
JBB 11.272 23 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple
as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends
to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness? No...it
wants him for meat to slaughter and eat.
ACiv 11.300 20 There are already mountains of facts
[on slavery], if any one wants them.
FRep 11.520 17 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the
spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land
wants manure.
FRep 11.521 22 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can
have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
Bost 12.207 22 We [New Englanders] are willing to see
our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm. That is...what the land
wants and invites.
Wapping, London, England, n (1)
ET9 5.146 25 ...so help him God! [the Englishman]
will...impose Wapping on the Congress of Vienna...
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