Weiber to Wentworth

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

Weiber, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 17 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...

weigh, v. (14)

    Nat 1.39 16 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Lov1 2.185 11 [The lovers] try and weigh their affection...
    Exp 3.64 11 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School, nor weigh their food...
    Pol1 3.205 13 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    MoS 4.151 23 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.153 7 ...[the men of the senses]...weigh man by the pound.
    ET4 5.65 10 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    F 6.14 3 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    Wsp 6.218 25 Man has learned to weigh the sun...
    WD 7.183 7 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes;...
    Grts 8.311 22 [The scholar's] courage is to weigh Plato...
    LLNE 10.329 2 In science the French savant......travels into all nooks and islands, to weigh, to analyze and report.
    GSt 10.499 3 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    LS 11.22 4 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.

weighed, v. (8)

    SL 2.158 2 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    ET5 5.86 1 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...
    Comc 8.166 17 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    HDC 11.44 6 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed...
    EWI 11.128 9 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth; every argument was weighed...
    AsSu 11.248 8 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    Wom 11.405 17 I think [women's] words are to be weighed;...

weighing, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.132 7 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals, big beryls weighing tons...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.

weighs, v. (6)

    ShP 4.216 21 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    CbW 6.245 22 The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter...
    Ill 6.312 21 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says;...
    Farm 7.140 14 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room, and weighs to each his loaf.
    Boks 7.195 17 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time, who sits and weighs...
    Clbs 7.236 23 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...

weight, n. (86)

    Nat 1.33 6 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest...
    Nat 1.33 7 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;...
    LE 1.180 1 ...whilst he believed in number and weight, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
    SR 2.70 20 ...war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat...
    SL 2.136 16 ...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole of Christendom?
    SL 2.145 1 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight...
    Pt1 3.19 13 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a grain's weight.
    Chr1 3.89 13 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
    Pol1 3.203 27 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
    Pol1 3.205 15 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
    Pol1 3.211 27 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    Pol1 3.221 23 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NER 3.267 1 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only, and without sense of weight.
    PPh 4.75 20 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    SwM 4.98 1 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire, by weight and meter, to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    MoS 4.169 23 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. In the hour of death, he gave the same weight to custom.
    MoS 4.183 7 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections...
    ShP 4.210 21 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
    NMW 4.225 23 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...personal weight...
    NMW 4.227 1 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them, and that his adoption of them gave them their weight.
    ET5 5.85 25 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET5 5.86 4 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET6 5.103 20 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal.
    ET10 5.156 1 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what is left.
    ET11 5.184 14 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet; and their weight of property and station gives them a virtual nomination of the other half;...
    F 6.5 21 [The Calvinists] felt that the weight of the Universe held them down to their place.
    F 6.14 2 Probably the election goes by avoirdupois weight...
    F 6.16 7 We know in history what weight belongs to race.
    F 6.20 20 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel or with the weight of mountains...
    F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...weight or resistance of water...
    F 6.38 23 Do you suppose [the new-born man] can be estimated by his weight in pounds...
    Pow 6.56 3 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.
    Pow 6.73 13 ...an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
    Wth 6.102 3 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight.
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.141 26 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Ctr 6.143 12 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it...has its due weight in his experience.
    Wsp 6.218 26 Man has learned to weigh the sun, and its weight neither loses nor gains.
    Wsp 6.220 18 ...all things go by number, rule and weight.
    Wsp 6.240 4 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    CbW 6.260 11 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Bty 6.284 21 The collector has dried all the plants in his herbal, but he has lost weight and humor.
    Bty 6.294 13 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
    Ill 6.323 21 The permanent interest of every man is...to have the weight of nature to back him in all that he does.
    Civ 7.32 13 ...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.41 23 The slope of your roof is determined by the weight of snow.
    Art2 7.42 22 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity, that is, the weight of the planet, to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
    Cour 7.263 15 ...every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    PI 8.12 4 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    QO 8.196 7 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person, in order to give it weight...
    QO 8.202 7 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
    Imtl 8.346 23 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime. And hence the fact that in the minds of men the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and penetration.
    Aris 10.49 9 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...
    PerF 10.71 14 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
    Supl 10.166 27 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    MoL 10.250 4 [Nature says to the American] I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    LLNE 10.333 13 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    Thor 10.458 14 No opposition or ridicule had any weight with [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.461 22 ...[Thoreau] could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.
    Thor 10.465 1 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre.
    LS 11.19 15 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    HDC 11.31 21 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.
    HDC 11.47 1 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government...
    HDC 11.47 13 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.
    HDC 11.86 10 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    EWI 11.114 13 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.127 10 These considerations [of trade], I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies];...
    EWI 11.127 14 These considerations...had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives. But they do not appear to have had an excessive or unreasonable weight.
    EWI 11.133 6 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    EWI 11.134 19 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLC 11.179 24 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
    FSLC 11.193 27 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLN 11.224 13 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.227 21 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    ALin 11.333 21 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    EdAd 11.388 17 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    EdAd 11.393 1 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.
    Wom 11.409 27 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...out of place they lose half their weight...
    FRO2 11.490 2 I submit that in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us, and that these words would have no weight with us if we had not the same conviction already.
    FRep 11.519 26 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    Milt1 12.251 10 The weight of the thought [in Milton's Areopagitica] is equalled by the vivacity of the expression...
    Milt1 12.277 3 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts;...
    ACri 12.296 24 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and manliness of his utterance, and, rarely, the weight of his sentence.
    Trag 12.411 17 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

weightier, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.391 23 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return with deeper tones and weightier import...

weightiest, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.189 18 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions...which any man or class knows of in his times.

weightily, adv. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 3 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

weightiness, n. (1)

    SwM 4.123 21 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...

weights, n. (6)

    NR 3.232 4 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NMW 4.227 10 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] makes the system of weights and measures;...
    F 6.35 17 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights are wings and means,- we are reconciled.
    CbW 6.257 2 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    Farm 7.146 6 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...
    Cour 7.254 15 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician, penetrating the cubic weights of stars, predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...

weighty, adj. (5)

    LT 1.259 18 The Times...are to be studied...as sacred leaves, whereon a weighty sense is inscribed...
    Bhr 6.190 21 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    SlHr 10.440 25 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...
    War 11.167 16 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    RBur 11.440 24 The Confession of Augsburg...the Marseillaise, are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

Weimar, Germany, n. (1)

    GoW 4.286 20 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.

Weimar, Grand Duke of [Kar (1)

    Prd1 2.229 9 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.

Weimar, Grand Duke of, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 25 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.

Wein, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 17 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...

weird, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.324 4 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./

weirdes, n. (1)

    Wom 11.406 5 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.

wel, adv. (1)

    Aris 10.29 16 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./

welcome, adj. (28)

    AmS 1.100 8 ...labor is everywhere welcome;...
    DSA 1.119 7 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    LE 1.155 3 The invitation to address you this day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
    LE 1.175 21 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain...
    Con 1.303 25 You are welcome to try your experiments...
    SR 2.78 19 Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
    Lov1 2.178 8 Beauty...welcome as the sun wherever it pleases to shine... seems sufficient to itself.
    Cir 2.313 21 Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Mrs1 3.140 5 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    ShP 4.196 27 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.
    ET14 5.232 12 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    Bhr 6.170 20 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she...is everywhere welcome...
    DL 7.103 10 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...
    Clbs 7.245 4 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours; and the first hint of a select and intelligent company is welcome.
    PI 8.13 26 There is no more welcome gift to men than a new symbol.
    PI 8.55 11 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes/...
    Grts 8.318 24 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man who was at home and welcome with the humblest...
    Supl 10.166 2 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    Plu 10.301 17 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports...
    Plu 10.303 27 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but he is not less welcome...
    MMEm 10.416 4 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome.
    HDC 11.38 6 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    ACiv 11.304 15 The war is welcome to the Southerner;...
    SMC 11.359 8 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott] as too kind for a captain...
    ChiE 11.471 13 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph. It is the more welcome for the surprise.
    PLT 12.28 20 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods...
    Milt1 12.252 19 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.

welcome, n. (13)

    NR 3.248 22 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet, out of my poverty of life and thought, had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    UGM 4.7 19 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome...
    GoW 4.269 4 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    GoW 4.285 15 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin. Enemy and welcome, but enemy on high terms.
    SS 7.15 7 ...ropes cannot hold me when my welcome is gone.
    Suc 7.301 11 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    Suc 7.305 14 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility gives welcome to all excellence...
    Comc 8.163 6 Wit makes its own welcome...
    Aris 10.39 19 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis, and dare trust their inspiration for their welcome;...
    Schr 10.261 12 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
    Carl 10.493 23 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    HDC 11.36 1 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    Bost 12.197 27 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.

welcome, v. (3)

    LE 1.184 4 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same.
    Fdsp 2.192 11 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
    Wsp 6.233 21 [The faithful student] learns to welcome misfortune...

welcomed, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.230 4 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    TPar 11.286 12 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit that heard all, and welcomed all that came, by seeing its bearing.

welfare, n. (13)

    Con 1.318 16 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    YA 1.374 25 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.
    OS 2.293 8 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
    ET8 5.143 4 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth...
    WD 7.179 27 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are...the way to or the way from welfare, but not welfare.
    WD 7.180 1 These passing fifteen minutes, men think...are...the way to or the way from welfare, but not welfare.
    Cour 7.265 23 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    SA 8.89 6 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence...
    SA 8.103 27 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look?
    Supl 10.168 6 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful; competence, quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.
    Prch 10.224 1 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...
    HDC 11.52 19 ...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...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...only seek your welfare...
    FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons...

welkin, n. (1)

    SS 7.1 23 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked/...

well, adj. (28)

    MN 1.222 17 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
    MR 1.237 20 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent...
    LT 1.270 16 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
    Tran 1.356 27 ...it is well if [the Transcendentalist] can keep from lying, injustice, and suicide.
    Exp 3.65 19 ...do thou, sick or well, finish that stint.
    NR 3.244 9 ...men feign themselves dead...and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
    NER 3.257 20 It is well if we can swim and skate.
    MoS 4.154 4 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it...
    ET11 5.172 12 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was well to come ere these were gone.
    Wth 6.124 1 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Wsp 6.214 9 The Spirit saith to the man, How is it with thee? thee personally? is it well? is it ill?
    Wsp 6.239 1 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure it will be well.
    Wsp 6.239 2 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure it will be well.
    Bty 6.298 18 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws,--as every lily and every rose is well.
    Elo1 7.84 16 It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's] influence is complete;...
    Suc 7.293 3 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.
    OA 7.320 17 Life is well enough...
    PI 8.32 2 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    PI 8.32 5 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
    PI 8.32 7 Eternal laws are very well, which admit no violation...
    SA 8.104 1 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look? If to any other people, it is not well with them.
    Res 8.152 7 Well for [the scholar] if he can say with the old minstrel, I know where to find a new song.
    Imtl 8.329 15 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Aris 10.47 26 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    LLNE 10.365 8 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    War 11.170 15 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    EdAd 11.389 4 We are not well, we are not in our seats, when justice and humanity are to be spoken for.
    CL 12.158 25 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking...

well, adv. (697)

    Nat 1.9 15 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    Nat 1.15 14 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...
    Nat 1.33 9 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense.
    Nat 1.37 24 ...Property, which has been well compared to snow...is the surface action of internal machinery...
    Nat 1.73 1 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature...with reason as well as understanding.
    AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used;...
    AmS 1.92 26 One must be an inventor to read well.
    AmS 1.93 2 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
    AmS 1.98 2 Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    AmS 1.99 10 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    AmS 1.100 6 There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands.
    AmS 1.113 19 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.120 2 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    DSA 1.121 11 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.140 12 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to escape.
    DSA 1.148 1 ...slight [the commanders], as you can well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    LE 1.155 6 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    LE 1.164 17 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has already acquired.
    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    LT 1.260 26 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
    LT 1.265 9 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;-let us examine how well she knows.
    LT 1.265 20 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    LT 1.274 5 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after...some well spiced bruage...his religion walks abroad at eight...
    LT 1.279 19 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    LT 1.283 13 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne, if it were great and involuntary;...
    Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die...
    Con 1.310 2 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your roads are well cut and well paved;...
    Con 1.317 12 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your roads are well cut and well paved;...
    Con 1.319 14 Sickness gets organized as well as health...
    Con 1.319 15 Sickness gets organized as well as health, the vice as well as the virtue.
    Con 1.322 25 I understand well the respect of mankind for war...
    Con 1.323 12 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates, as well as those who, accepting its rude conditions, keep their own head by their own sword.
    Tran 1.334 26 ...let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
    Tran 1.339 24 It is well known to most of my audience that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    Tran 1.342 17 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude. Society to be sure, does not like this very well;...
    Tran 1.351 21 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Tran 1.353 14 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting; it was not that we were born for. Any other could do it as well or better.
    Tran 1.359 18 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    YA 1.365 27 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    YA 1.367 13 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works...which might well make the land dear to the citizen...
    YA 1.377 1 ...as long as war lasts, the nobles, who must be soldiers, rule very well.
    YA 1.381 12 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. This result might well seem astounding.
    YA 1.386 25 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed...and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
    Hist 2.23 23 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope for it with researching fingers...
    Hist 2.29 26 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has...in all fable as well as all history.
    SR 2.56 6 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    SR 2.57 20 [The great soul] may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
    SR 2.62 18 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man...
    SR 2.69 8 The soul raised over passion...calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
    SR 2.73 25 You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine...
    SR 2.80 16 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    Comp 2.96 8 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Comp 2.110 15 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Comp 2.110 27 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
    Comp 2.111 25 [Fear] is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
    Comp 2.112 14 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Comp 2.120 19 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...
    Comp 2.123 23 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it.
    SL 2.137 9 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    SL 2.138 8 One sees very well how Pyrrhonism grew up.
    SL 2.142 6 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SL 2.153 15 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    SL 2.158 2 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    SL 2.164 25 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Lov1 2.177 18 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Lov1 2.181 3 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
    Fdsp 2.197 13 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
    Fdsp 2.201 23 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built...to entertain him a single day.
    Fdsp 2.204 11 ...a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
    Fdsp 2.205 3 I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence.
    Fdsp 2.206 13 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Fdsp 2.215 16 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
    Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
    Prd1 2.221 7 I have no skill to make money spend well...
    Prd1 2.221 14 We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience.
    Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
    Prd1 2.231 19 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...talent which glitters to-day that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow;...
    Hsm1 2.246 10 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    Hsm1 2.253 27 The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger...do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Hsm1 2.255 17 [Greatness] does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
    Hsm1 2.255 21 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    Hsm1 2.258 1 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is.
    Hsm1 2.261 8 Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money.
    OS 2.277 16 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer.
    OS 2.285 16 We know each other very well...
    OS 2.293 20 ...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend] also, and could therefore very well bring you together...
    Cir 2.307 18 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Cir 2.312 12 The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
    Cir 2.315 4 ...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    Cir 2.315 22 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Int 2.337 4 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Int 2.337 24 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...
    Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...its colors are well laid on...
    Int 2.341 16 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost, and may well study the laws of its influx.
    Int 2.346 25 Well assured that their speech is intelligible...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
    Art1 2.357 16 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Art1 2.361 12 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I knew so well...
    Art1 2.365 18 Life may be lyric or epic, as well as a poem or a romance.
    Art1 2.366 13 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    Pt1 3.17 22 Small and mean things serve as well as great symbols.
    Pt1 3.18 9 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Pt1 3.30 25 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pt1 3.39 21 ...the poet knows well that [what he says] not his;...
    Exp 3.56 2 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Exp 3.56 12 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
    Exp 3.59 26 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
    Exp 3.60 1 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.60 17 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.68 21 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness...
    Exp 3.73 7 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    Exp 3.75 12 The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the faiths of society...
    Exp 3.79 5 ...there is no crime to the intellect. That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.
    Chr1 3.90 7 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men...can entertain themselves very well alone.
    Chr1 3.92 8 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the State, or letters;...
    Chr1 3.93 9 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning...
    Chr1 3.103 19 Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through;...
    Chr1 3.110 17 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Mrs1 3.122 22 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.138 9 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling...
    Mrs1 3.138 13 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    Mrs1 3.155 3 ...I shall hear without pain that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
    Mrs1 3.155 5 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
    Gts 3.160 23 Necessity does everything well.
    Gts 3.162 20 He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
    Gts 3.164 15 ...our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Nat2 3.176 8 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
    Nat2 3.184 16 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?
    Nat2 3.189 23 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
    Nat2 3.190 26 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway?
    Pol1 3.205 3 Things have their laws, as well as men;...
    Pol1 3.208 4 Good men must not obey the laws too well.
    Pol1 3.211 21 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    Pol1 3.214 19 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    Pol1 3.216 10 [The wise man] needs no army, fort, or navy,--he loves men too well;...
    Pol1 3.220 25 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    Pol1 3.221 27 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends...
    NR 3.225 14 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.233 2 What is well done [in books] I feel as if I did;...
    NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns, which we can well afford to let pass,...
    NR 3.240 27 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author;...
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive...
    NR 3.248 24 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.252 15 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast, as well as dough...
    NER 3.256 15 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    NER 3.262 9 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these counters, as well as those?...
    NER 3.262 10 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life...in the institution of property, as well as out of it?
    NER 3.270 27 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober. The text will suit me very well.
    NER 3.274 18 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NER 3.278 6 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    NER 3.283 23 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    NER 3.283 25 The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
    UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    PPh 4.43 3 Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
    PPh 4.45 4 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well...
    PPh 4.59 1 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    PPh 4.60 11 [Plato] could well afford to be generous...
    PPh 4.74 4 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him;...
    PNR 4.86 7 Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
    SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
    SwM 4.103 5 There is...strength of a host, as well as of a hero;...
    SwM 4.116 21 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    SwM 4.127 9 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...
    SwM 4.134 27 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations. The mode, as well as the essence, was sacred.
    SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he is altogether well employed;...
    MoS 4.153 20 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    MoS 4.154 17 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    MoS 4.180 24 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
    ShP 4.197 2 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet];...
    ShP 4.197 10 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Saadi] are librarians and historiographers, as well as poets.
    ShP 4.205 22 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information. It was well worth the pains that have been taken to procure it.
    ShP 4.206 10 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    ShP 4.210 18 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider how well he filled his place...
    ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other.
    NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb, too well known, declares that if you would succeed, you must not be too good.
    NMW 4.231 15 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
    NMW 4.231 23 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    NMW 4.239 27 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man.
    NMW 4.241 23 [Napoleon] knew, as well as any Jacobin in France, how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    NMW 4.245 2 Natural power was sure to be well received at [Napoleon's] court.
    NMW 4.252 6 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    NMW 4.255 4 For my part [said Napoleon] I know very well that I have no true friends.
    GoW 4.263 14 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    GoW 4.263 15 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    GoW 4.265 26 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    GoW 4.276 2 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another.
    GoW 4.276 21 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...and be well initiated in the life of Vienna and of Heidelberg in 1820...
    ET1 5.5 19 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    ET1 5.12 1 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well...
    ET1 5.19 2 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET2 5.28 7 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say:--she behaves well;...
    ET3 5.38 3 ...to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET3 5.38 5 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET3 5.38 6 ...what they told me was the merit of Sir John Soane's Museum, in London,--that it was well packed and well saved,--is the merit of England;...
    ET4 5.51 20 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me, himself very well marked and nowhere else to be found,--I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
    ET4 5.51 26 ...certain temperaments marry well...
    ET4 5.53 22 These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed...
    ET4 5.63 14 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing:--we must work our fists well;...
    ET4 5.65 14 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome; at least the whole bust is well formed...
    ET4 5.69 5 [The English] have a vigorous health and last well into middle and old age.
    ET4 5.71 17 The Englishman associates well with dogs and horses.
    ET5 5.84 11 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field. All are well kept.
    ET5 5.88 17 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET5 5.89 21 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well.
    ET5 5.96 15 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products, but on its manufactures, or the making well every thing which is ill-made elsewhere.
    ET7 5.126 2 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET8 5.129 2 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they...thought they spoke well enough if they had the tone of gentlemen.
    ET8 5.131 16 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET8 5.134 12 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture; war-class as well as clerks;...
    ET8 5.134 13 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...wise minority, as well as foolish majority;...
    ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice as people who wear well...
    ET8 5.142 6 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy);...
    ET8 5.142 18 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in books, maps, models...
    ET9 5.148 3 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself...that it sits well on him.
    ET10 5.167 3 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating.
    ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET12 5.199 12 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough]...
    ET12 5.203 4 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET12 5.211 24 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET13 5.216 22 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    ET13 5.221 9 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    ET13 5.226 8 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    ET13 5.227 26 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists.
    ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
    ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation.
    ET14 5.257 1 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or hardness...
    ET14 5.259 25 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England;...
    ET15 5.269 15 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns, which speaks well for England to a foreigner.
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    ET16 5.281 2 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line. Yes. Very well.
    ET16 5.288 14 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house, for example. It is not easy to answer these queries well.
    ET17 5.297 18 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    ET17 5.298 5 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
    ET18 5.299 11 [The English] are well marked and differing from other leading races.
    ET18 5.301 24 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to pass as well by land as by water...
    ET18 5.306 25 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England], that it worked well...
    ET19 5.309 9 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
    ET19 5.313 13 I see [England]...well remembering that she has seen dark days before;...
    F 6.1 6 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    F 6.10 19 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...
    F 6.21 23 ...we must...seek to do justice to the other elements as well.
    F 6.21 26 Thus we trace Fate...in thought and character as well.
    F 6.36 21 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.38 5 [A creature] is not possible until the invisible things are right for him, as well as the visible.
    F 6.43 25 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined with stone, but could not hide from [man's] fires.
    Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.55 16 If Eric...has slept well...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.56 18 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.58 21 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.
    Pow 6.59 20 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good, and well thrown.
    Pow 6.59 26 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.
    Pow 6.60 7 Health is good,--power, life, that...is conservative as well as creative.
    Pow 6.66 24 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the malignants.
    Pow 6.70 10 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party, though you mean well, you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Pow 6.78 20 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.
    Wth 6.83 9 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.86 25 We may well call [coal] black diamonds.
    Wth 6.92 10 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Wth 6.93 16 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
    Wth 6.93 18 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Wth 6.95 8 [The rich] include the country as well as the town...in their notion of available material.
    Wth 6.97 5 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.
    Wth 6.100 2 Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.
    Wth 6.106 18 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Wth 6.108 20 All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    Wth 6.119 3 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
    Ctr 6.135 25 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.
    Ctr 6.145 19 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen? One sees very well what their fate must be.
    Ctr 6.149 5 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Ctr 6.161 7 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Ctr 6.162 9 Try the rough water as well as the smooth.
    Bhr 6.174 18 Manners...grow out of circumstance as well as out of character.
    Bhr 6.174 21 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    Bhr 6.174 22 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
    Wsp 6.202 20 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
    Wsp 6.208 4 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries, scholars as well as merchants, succumb to a great despair...
    Wsp 6.215 23 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well.
    Wsp 6.221 12 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
    Wsp 6.228 1 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims...
    Wsp 6.230 13 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    Wsp 6.232 23 A high aim is curative, as well as arnica.
    Wsp 6.235 11 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    Wsp 6.238 27 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious.
    CbW 6.243 27 Of all wit's uses, the main one/ Is to live well with who has none./
    CbW 6.246 6 We like very well to be praised for our action...
    CbW 6.257 16 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    Bty 6.279 9 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music which they gave./
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Bty 6.290 27 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.
    Bty 6.297 22 We all know this magic [of beautiful women] very well...
    Bty 6.299 9 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...
    Ill 6.310 25 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    Ill 6.317 20 Bonaparte is intellectual, as well as Caesar;...
    Ill 6.318 2 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it...
    Ill 6.321 12 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    SS 7.7 25 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion.
    SS 7.10 16 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments.
    Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
    Civ 7.34 18 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free;...
    Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence.
    Art2 7.53 7 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    Elo1 7.68 9 ...we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best...
    Elo1 7.70 16 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators...in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    Elo1 7.74 10 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which, as is well known, overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    Elo1 7.75 7 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than...the vituperative style well described in the street-word jawing.
    Elo1 7.79 8 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man.
    Elo1 7.79 24 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    Elo1 7.80 11 I know very well that among our cool and calculating people... there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Elo1 7.84 8 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Elo1 7.84 17 It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's] influence is complete; then only they are well pleased.
    Elo1 7.86 17 ...it is the certainty with which, indifferently in any affair that is well handled, the truth stares us in the face...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.87 22 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.
    Elo1 7.87 24 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented.
    Elo1 7.88 2 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head...
    Elo1 7.88 5 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk...did not impede, since he was entirely well meaning.
    Elo1 7.89 9 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting;...
    Elo1 7.91 16 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.99 11 [Eloquence] may well stand as the exponent of all that is grand and immortal in the mind.
    DL 7.107 7 The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.
    DL 7.112 21 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may well travel fifty miles...to behold.
    DL 7.122 18 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to be a master of living well...
    DL 7.129 24 ...whatever purifies and enlarges [the dweller], may well find place [in the household].
    Farm 7.149 12 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite...even now and then for a dead hog, he will indulge them. They keep the secret well...
    Farm 7.153 10 The farmer stands well on the world.
    Farm 7.153 18 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world...
    WD 7.165 20 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of piety as well as prudence...
    WD 7.176 24 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has, instead of looking about for...what others have used well.
    WD 7.181 3 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Boks 7.194 13 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
    Boks 7.212 10 Poetry...must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
    Boks 7.213 18 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as the trout-fishing...make such amends as they can.
    Boks 7.218 9 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    Boks 7.219 22 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Boks 7.220 15 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...
    Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted, and, if well adapted, more intimate in a day than if they had been neighbors for years.
    Clbs 7.232 4 I know well the rusticity of the shy hermit.
    Clbs 7.233 15 There must be large reception as well as giving.
    Clbs 7.236 18 Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...
    Clbs 7.238 1 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun...etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily. Then it is his turn to interrogate, and he is answered well for a time by the Jotun.
    Clbs 7.242 6 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out others of retiring habit;...
    Clbs 7.243 8 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    Clbs 7.243 20 We know well the Mermaid Club...
    Clbs 7.244 11 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well.
    Clbs 7.245 7 There are people who cannot well be cultivated;...
    Cour 7.255 12 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then...all its powers play well.
    Cour 7.261 14 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I cannot afford to misbehave;...
    Cour 7.263 6 It is the groom who knows the jumping horse well who can safely ride him.
    Cour 7.267 26 There is a courage of the cabinet as well as a courage of the field;...
    Cour 7.268 8 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.269 9 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    Cour 7.269 22 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all books.
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Cour 7.277 22 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
    Suc 7.294 14 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    Suc 7.294 20 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, knowing well that it will not loiter.
    Suc 7.295 21 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race.
    Suc 7.299 5 ...I have just seen a man, well knowing what he spoke of, who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    Suc 7.303 2 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge...
    OA 7.314 7 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society, as well as senior alumnus of the University, was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    OA 7.319 26 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
    OA 7.333 22 [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.
    OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    OA 7.335 21 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
    PI 8.15 22 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.25 13 ...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that; or the Cid, and that rings well;...
    PI 8.25 16 Lear and Macbeth and Richard III. [people] know pretty well without guide.
    PI 8.25 20 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.
    PI 8.36 14 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.41 7 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...
    PI 8.43 16 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.44 20 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.
    PI 8.53 5 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
    PI 8.60 13 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    PI 8.61 5 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well...
    PI 8.61 9 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you...
    PI 8.61 15 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin, and he answered, Sir, certes I ought to know you well...
    PI 8.62 8 ...said Merlin...I well knew that all this would befall me...
    PI 8.69 16 ...[Goethe's Faust]...accuses the author as well as the times.
    PI 8.74 12 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages, and other men report as much, but none wholly and well.
    PI 8.75 5 Men are facts as well as persons...
    SA 8.80 24 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature. Such a one can well go in a blanket, if he would.
    SA 8.82 4 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    SA 8.88 25 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.94 3 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy, as well as in France;...
    SA 8.95 21 A right speech is not well to be distinguished from action.
    SA 8.100 26 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth, and in such good season as to enjoy as well as transmit it.
    SA 8.102 4 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who speak so well...
    SA 8.103 8 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
    SA 8.103 9 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
    Elo2 8.117 3 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
    Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited...
    Elo2 8.119 4 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...
    Elo2 8.124 16 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke, as well as in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Comc 8.166 4 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    Comc 8.167 10 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.
    Comc 8.171 22 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions;...
    Comc 8.173 22 We must learn by laughter, as well as by tears and terrors;...
    Comc 8.173 24 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    QO 8.181 6 ...[Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza's] originality will disappear to such as are either well read or thoughtful;...
    QO 8.187 24 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.187 27 ...shall we say that only the first men were well alive...
    QO 8.189 8 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    QO 8.189 22 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    QO 8.189 23 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    QO 8.190 2 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well.
    QO 8.191 7 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we... shall return to [an author] as long as he serves us so well.
    QO 8.191 7 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    QO 8.194 16 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering...
    QO 8.196 13 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...and which told admirably well.
    QO 8.196 21 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times, but never works as well under his own name.
    QO 8.204 18 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    PC 8.207 12 We may be well contented with our fair inheritance.
    PC 8.210 16 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as agriculture...have evoked!...
    PC 8.223 11 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates, as well as the surface and soil of the globe.
    PC 8.230 5 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    PC 8.232 3 Periodicity, reaction, are laws of mind as well as of matter.
    PC 8.232 15 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders.
    PPo 8.259 23 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough;...
    Insp 8.270 16 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him,-pretty well on in his education...
    Insp 8.272 1 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Insp 8.275 11 There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect.
    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;...
    Insp 8.281 17 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.290 19 Every artist knows well some favorite retirement.
    Insp 8.291 9 The times of force must be well husbanded...
    Insp 8.293 11 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other; but it is because one thought well that the other thinks better...
    Insp 8.295 20 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    Grts 8.303 16 They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim;...
    Grts 8.303 21 If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as well snub the sun.
    Grts 8.309 26 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. Very well,-I let it lie, thinking it may pass away...
    Grts 8.313 12 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
    Imtl 8.322 1 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Imtl 8.324 11 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    Imtl 8.328 23 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Dem1 10.6 17 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams.
    Dem1 10.8 13 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Dem1 10.9 22 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    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.
    Dem1 10.13 26 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...
    Dem1 10.14 1 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event...
    Dem1 10.21 6 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared.
    Dem1 10.21 10 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
    Dem1 10.26 13 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
    Aris 10.37 16 We like cool people...who can stand a slander very well;...
    Aris 10.39 14 I wish...men who see the dance in men's lives as well as in a ball-room...
    Aris 10.39 17 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis...
    Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.44 13 I see well enough that when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    Aris 10.45 4 If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough their destination;...
    Aris 10.50 6 When the lawyer tries his case in court...his own merits appear as well as his client's.
    Aris 10.53 17 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent.
    Aris 10.59 2 [A grand interest] prospers as well in mistake as in luck...
    Aris 10.59 3 [A grand interest] prospers...in obstruction and nonsense, as well as among the angels;...
    Aris 10.61 4 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...
    Chr2 10.99 3 God sends his message, if not by one, then quite as well by another.
    Chr2 10.99 26 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
    Chr2 10.104 8 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Chr2 10.112 27 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Chr2 10.113 17 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.
    Chr2 10.114 27 ...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment]...the history of Jesus, as well as those of every divine soul which in any place or time delivered any grand lesson to humanity;...
    Chr2 10.117 19 Men may well come together to kindle each other to virtuous living.
    Chr2 10.118 18 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    Edc1 10.139 20 If I can pass with [boys], I can manage well enough with their fathers.
    Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...
    Edc1 10.141 13 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation, namely, to hear as well as to speak.
    Edc1 10.149 1 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    Edc1 10.156 3 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
    Supl 10.166 6 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
    Supl 10.169 26 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    Supl 10.174 13 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    SovE 10.193 13 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    SovE 10.193 21 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    SovE 10.194 8 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God], as well as the scope and outline;...
    SovE 10.196 26 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living. I thought I managed it very well.
    SovE 10.198 9 ...as we send to England for shrubs which grow as well in our own door-yards and cow-pastures.
    SovE 10.210 9 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    Prch 10.222 11 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever.
    MoL 10.242 5 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough...
    MoL 10.249 8 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy, low as well as high...
    MoL 10.258 11 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    Schr 10.264 20 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    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 10.283 19 Whatever object is brought before [mother-wit] is already well known to it.
    Plu 10.306 10 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well.
    Plu 10.306 16 One asks sometimes whether a metaphysician can treat the intellect well.
    Plu 10.316 24 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps...
    Plu 10.317 15 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
    Plu 10.319 17 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
    Plu 10.320 24 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
    Plu 10.322 2 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    LLNE 10.331 22 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    LLNE 10.336 26 The religious sentiment...triumphed over time as well as space;...
    LLNE 10.337 21 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation.
    LLNE 10.353 9 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office...
    LLNE 10.358 13 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in cheap reading-rooms.
    LLNE 10.358 24 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well.
    LLNE 10.359 21 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.
    CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention], as well as of zeal and enthusiasm.
    EzRy 10.385 2 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay?
    EzRy 10.385 23 Trained in this [New England] church, and very well qualified by his natural talent to work in it, it was never out of [Ezra Ripley' s] mind.
    EzRy 10.386 12 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered...
    EzRy 10.386 26 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    EzRy 10.388 24 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    EzRy 10.390 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...as I well remember, a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    EzRy 10.391 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew the value of a dollar as well as another man...
    EzRy 10.392 12 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    EzRy 10.393 9 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all...
    MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.418 2 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with myself:-my dear self has done well.
    MMEm 10.420 26 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant, which no idler wind can so well dispense.
    MMEm 10.426 27 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    SlHr 10.440 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    Thor 10.452 26 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    Thor 10.461 21 [Thoreau] could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye;...
    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    Thor 10.463 5 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready for any excursion that promised well...
    Thor 10.463 15 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to...
    Thor 10.464 27 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre.
    Thor 10.473 21 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids.
    Thor 10.473 26 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that: It was well worth a visit to California to learn it.
    Thor 10.474 4 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
    Thor 10.475 5 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Thor 10.476 5 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.
    Thor 10.481 25 [Thoreau] loved Nature so well...that he became very jealous of cities...
    Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster...
    Carl 10.496 20 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    GSt 10.504 7 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...
    GSt 10.507 24 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future. For the Spirit of the Universe seems to say: He has done well; is not that saying all?
    LS 11.20 18 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    HDC 11.35 4 All kinds of garden fruits grew well...
    HDC 11.50 21 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters.
    HDC 11.59 4 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    HDC 11.68 11 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this, as well as the mother country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.72 27 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage. The story of that day is well known.
    HDC 11.76 18 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
    HDC 11.84 12 ...for the most part, [our fathers]...provide well for the schools and the poor.
    LVB 11.93 7 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
    EWI 11.98 2 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
    EWI 11.99 14 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
    EWI 11.108 13 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize; but he wrote too well for his own peace;...
    EWI 11.117 2 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...
    EWI 11.121 7 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as well conditioned... as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.122 13 [Our] well-being consists in having...a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table;...
    EWI 11.124 20 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect, as well as with a love of sugar;...
    EWI 11.124 21 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born...with a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink.
    EWI 11.124 22 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect, as well as with a love of sugar; and with a sense of justice, as well as a taste for strong drink. These ripened, as well as those.
    EWI 11.125 10 It was shown to the planters that they, as well as the negroes, were slaves;...
    EWI 11.126 12 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women.
    EWI 11.133 22 I may as well say...that whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants...there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    EWI 11.146 3 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    War 11.160 17 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    War 11.160 19 Cannot peace be, as well as war?
    FSLC 11.179 8 We do not breathe well.
    FSLC 11.192 17 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...
    FSLC 11.201 21 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLC 11.204 11 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend. Lucky that so much had got well written when he came.
    FSLC 11.206 8 The North likes the South well enough, for it knows its own advantages.
    FSLC 11.209 7 '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;...
    FSLN 11.221 19 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that a little more or less of rhetoric signified nothing...
    FSLN 11.222 8 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    FSLN 11.222 14 Though [Webster] knew very well how to present his own personal claims, yet in his argument he was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    FSLN 11.223 8 ...what [Webster] saw so well he compelled other people to see also.
    FSLN 11.223 11 What gratitude does every man feel to him who speaks well for the right...
    FSLN 11.231 15 We are all conservatives...in our essences: and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery.
    FSLN 11.236 22 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no Constitution but his dealing well and justly with his neighbor;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    FSLN 11.241 27 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...
    AKan 11.259 2 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    AKan 11.262 17 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate but a citizen...
    JBB 11.267 3 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.
    JBS 11.281 10 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery. As well complain of gravity...
    TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
    TPar 11.289 12 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he overestimated his friends,-I may well say it...
    TPar 11.291 17 ...it is well known that [Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    TPar 11.292 8 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    ACiv 11.299 6 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    ACiv 11.306 4 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EPro 11.317 19 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction.
    EPro 11.325 23 It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves until this edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.
    ALin 11.329 22 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.332 10 ...this man [Lincoln] was...all right for labor, and liked nothing so well.
    HCom 11.343 3 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
    HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books, as well as by traffic and production, the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    HCom 11.344 9 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...
    HCom 11.344 10 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men, who knew well on what duty they went...
    SMC 11.349 6 We are all pretty well aware that the facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree personal and local here;...
    SMC 11.350 8 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;-well assured, meantime, that the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    SMC 11.357 6 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools.
    SMC 11.357 23 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me. I can go as well as another.
    SMC 11.358 24 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    SMC 11.361 8 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me, for I know she would not have had me stay at home if she could as well as not.
    SMC 11.362 23 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SMC 11.365 9 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...
    SMC 11.369 3 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared, although I would willingly die to have the regiment do as well as they have done.
    EdAd 11.389 17 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    Koss 11.400 6 This republic greets in you [Kossuth] a republican. We only say, Well done, good and faithful.
    Koss 11.400 12 You [Kossuth] may well sit a doctor in the college of liberty.
    Wom 11.406 20 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    Wom 11.418 7 ...for the general charge [that women are temperamental]: no doubt it is well founded.
    Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.426 14 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    SHC 11.431 22 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
    SHC 11.434 10 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley...we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    RBur 11.441 11 It was indifferent-they thought who saw him-whether [Burns] wrote verse or not: he could have done anything else as well.
    Shak1 11.452 22 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    Shak1 11.452 24 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    Humb 11.457 8 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical, his parts were well put together.
    Scot 11.463 15 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
    ChiE 11.473 21 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us, as well as England and France...
    CPL 11.506 14 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader...
    FRep 11.511 1 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.
    FRep 11.512 15 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more exquisite the better. He has also, I fear, his debts to the chemist as well as to the vineyard.
    FRep 11.516 17 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us...
    FRep 11.523 19 ...[the people]...must have the means of living well...
    FRep 11.528 20 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start. We began well.
    FRep 11.536 14 A man for success...must obey ideas, or he might as well be the horse he rides on.
    PLT 12.4 16 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true through all the sciences; in the laws of thought as well as of chemistry.
    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...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these observed arcs will consist with each other.
    PLT 12.20 21 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...
    PLT 12.26 1 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures, and that nothing grows well on the crab-stock...
    PLT 12.30 9 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no one to be civil to me. Strong men understand this very well.
    PLT 12.32 7 I know well what a sieve every ear is.
    PLT 12.51 15 ...in learning one thing well you learn all things.
    PLT 12.63 1 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is divine...
    PLT 12.63 12 Socrates kept all his virtues as well as his faculties well in hand.
    PLT 12.63 13 Socrates kept all his virtues as well as his faculties well in hand.
    II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts.
    Mem 12.100 10 ...men of great presence of mind...can think in this moment as well and deeply as in any past moment...
    Mem 12.102 22 The memory is one of the compensations which Nature grants to those who have used their days well;...
    Mem 12.108 20 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.
    CInt 12.112 14 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.118 13 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.
    CInt 12.118 27 The emigration into America of British, as well as of Continental people, is the eulogy of America...
    CInt 12.119 12 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    CInt 12.121 1 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.
    CInt 12.127 12 You all well know the downward tendency in literature...
    CInt 12.128 18 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...which can do very well without colleges...
    CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
    CL 12.144 20 We may well enumerate what compensating advantages we have over that country [Illinois]...
    CL 12.154 13 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons.
    CL 12.162 18 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises.
    CL 12.164 15 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
    CL 12.165 3 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CL 12.165 6 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg. I can see very well what he is driving at; he means men and women.
    CW 12.174 17 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.
    CW 12.179 9 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    CW 12.179 10 ...when [the man] sees...the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic, as well as the sense and scope of the whole...
    Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.185 22 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.189 23 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
    MAng1 12.219 21 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by an understanding of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
    MAng1 12.238 11 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all.
    MAng1 12.240 27 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...
    MAng1 12.242 4 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    MAng1 12.242 18 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    Milt1 12.250 5 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.
    Milt1 12.251 12 ...[Milton's Areopagitica] cheers as well as teaches.
    Milt1 12.256 9 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.259 5 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.260 25 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other;...
    Milt1 12.261 6 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.
    Milt1 12.266 6 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...
    Milt1 12.266 15 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.267 2 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
    Milt1 12.269 22 [Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
    ACri 12.292 11 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    MLit 12.320 3 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
    MLit 12.320 7 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    MLit 12.322 21 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all. Had there been twice so much, he could have used it as well.
    MLit 12.329 10 [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.
    WSL 12.340 8 ...we love the man [Landor], from sympathy as well as for reasons to be assigned;...
    WSL 12.344 16 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
    Pray 12.350 24 Let us...have the prayers...of men in all ages and religions who have prayed well.
    EurB 12.367 2 ...a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house.
    EurB 12.369 12 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.
    EurB 12.373 15 We are not very well versed in these books [novels]...
    PPr 12.383 7 ...the poet knows well that a little time will do more than the most puissant genius.
    PPr 12.383 14 Each man can very well know his own part of duty, if he will;...
    Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.

well, n. (6)

    MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
    Wth 6.123 1 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    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...sinking my well...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Farm 7.141 6 He who digs a well...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Aris 10.66 5 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...
    PerF 10.75 16 [Labor] is under the house in the well;...

well, v. (1)

    Art1 2.360 21 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.

well-advised, adj. (2)

    OA 7.322 12 We still feel the force of Socrates, whom well-advised the oracle pronounced wisest of men;...
    EWI 11.99 18 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...

well-appointed, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.126 7 Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well-appointed knights...
    CbW 6.266 25 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?

well-being, n. (20)

    Prd1 2.236 14 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another...
    Prd1 2.240 27 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present well-being.
    Hsm1 2.249 22 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    NR 3.243 3 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    GoW 4.269 2 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
    Wth 6.88 27 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    CbW 6.278 25 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the essentials,--these, and the wish...to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
    DL 7.110 27 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    DL 7.113 20 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    OA 7.323 7 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
    Imtl 8.330 14 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    Supl 10.174 2 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    SlHr 10.445 15 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    LS 11.22 17 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to... teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
    EWI 11.118 18 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    EWI 11.122 11 [Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast...
    FSLN 11.217 21 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars.
    ACiv 11.297 17 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.
    ACiv 11.307 27 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    MLit 12.315 14 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with all the activity and well-being of the race.

well-beloved, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.42 1 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower...
    SHC 11.435 21 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...

well-born, adj. (8)

    OS 2.275 20 To the well-born child all the virtues are natural...
    Nat2 3.175 22 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    UGM 4.23 8 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron, well-born, rich, handsome, eloquent...
    Ctr 6.164 25 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...
    Plu 10.298 10 Plutarch was well-born, well-taught, well-conditioned;...
    FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.

well-bred, adj. (11)

    Pt1 3.9 18 ...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.
    Mrs1 3.132 13 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    PNR 4.87 12 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    ET13 5.223 6 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    ET13 5.223 22 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.
    ET14 5.256 3 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    ET15 5.262 13 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    Ctr 6.149 18 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such.
    Bhr 6.183 13 A scholar may be a well-bred man, or he may not.
    Bhr 6.196 17 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.

well-bred, n. [wellbred,] (2)

    SA 8.79 17 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    CInt 12.122 3 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

well-built, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.44 24 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.

well-calculated, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.199 5 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

well-chosen, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.340 21 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...
    ACri 12.286 20 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...

well-clad, adj. (1)

    SR 2.84 19 What a contrast between the well-clad...American...and the naked New Zealander...

well-concealed, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.146 8 ...there is still...some well-concealed piety;...

well-conditioned, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.211 9 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
    Plu 10.298 10 Plutarch was well-born, well-taught, well-conditioned;...

well-directed, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.86 22 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...

well-disposed, adj. (4)

    Wsp 6.212 6 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are touched with the same infidelity...
    Cour 7.259 5 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    Aris 10.31 8 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...
    GSt 10.505 19 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans, well-disposed enough, but of feebler and interrupted action.

well-doing, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.196 13 Special precepts are not to be thought of; the talent of well-doing contains them all.
    Prch 10.223 23 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion,-the religion of well-doing and daring...
    FSLN 11.237 17 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.

well-dressed, adj. (8)

    ET13 5.220 25 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    Bhr 6.184 19 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is bent to amuse the other...
    Bhr 6.186 20 ...we sometimes dream that we are in a well-dressed company without any coat...
    Wsp 6.210 19 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no more virtue than they possess;...
    SA 8.91 7 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    Aris 10.36 4 ...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed vulgarity.
    Aris 10.62 14 ...[the gentleman] will find in the well-dressed crowd... vulgarity of sentiment.
    WSL 12.339 22 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool...

well-educated, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.208 18 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET12 5.210 23 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men, and three or four hundred well-educated men.

Wellesley, Arthur [Duke of (25)

    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Wellington...
    ET1 5.4 14 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington...
    ET4 5.64 3 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
    ET4 5.68 26 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    ET5 5.85 27 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...
    ET6 5.109 9 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops...
    ET6 5.111 9 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET7 5.118 18 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    ET7 5.120 1 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    ET7 5.123 3 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET8 5.131 14 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET11 5.184 7 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...
    ET11 5.194 19 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    ET13 5.222 2 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain...
    ET18 5.307 12 ...restrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Beethoven or Wellington...passing for nobody;...
    Cour 7.258 5 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were often masks;...
    Cour 2.271 23 ...Wellington and Soult...become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
    OA 7.316 6 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    OA 7.323 3 We still feel the force...of Wellington, the perfect soldier;...
    QQ 8.184 15 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate, among other anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    Supl 10.167 8 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    SovE 10.189 18 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    Carl 10.496 11 Wellington [Carlyle] respects as real and honest...
    CInt 12.113 19 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue...of Nelson or Wellington...

well-founded, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.355 25 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    Suc 7.311 26 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is no express-rider...

well-graced, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.93 4 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...

well-husbanded, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.303 18 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...

well-informed, adj. (4)

    ET13 5.222 14 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    Ctr 6.149 14 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Boks 7.198 22 The well-informed man finds himself anticipated [by Plato].
    Humb 11.458 24 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.

Wellington, Duke of [Arthur (25)

    UGM 4.15 12 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to...Wellington...
    ET1 5.4 14 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington...
    ET4 5.64 3 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
    ET4 5.68 26 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    ET5 5.85 27 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...
    ET6 5.109 9 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops...
    ET6 5.111 9 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...and Wellington, that habit was ten times nature.
    ET7 5.118 18 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    ET7 5.120 1 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    ET7 5.123 3 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET8 5.131 14 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET11 5.184 7 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...
    ET11 5.194 20 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    ET13 5.222 2 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain...
    ET18 5.307 12 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Beethoven or Wellington...passing for nobody;...
    Cour 7.258 5 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were often masks;...
    Cour 7.271 23 ...Wellington and Soult...become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
    OA 7.316 6 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    OA 7.323 3 We still feel the force...of Wellington, the perfect soldier;...
    QO 8.184 15 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate, among other anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    Supl 10.167 8 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    SovE 10.189 18 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    Carl 10.496 11 Wellington [Carlyle] respects as real and honest...
    CInt 12.113 19 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue...of Nelson or Wellington...

Wellington Sound, n. (1)

    ET4 5.68 17 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...

well-intended, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.157 19 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well-intended halfness;...

well-knit, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.461 14 [Thoreau's] senses were acute, his frame well-knit and hardy...

well-known, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.51 9 ...a portrait of a well-known face gratifies us.
    MN 1.209 17 That well-known voice speaks in all languages...and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    LT 1.265 14 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 2.15 24 [Nature] hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    ET8 5.128 2 ...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable to their digust of life.
    Bty 6.287 5 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Elo1 7.86 19 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... a piece of the well-known human life,--that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    DL 7.120 19 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement...of the discourse of a well-known speaker, with the expense of the entertainment;...
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    LLNE 10.341 19 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always one well-known form...
    EWI 11.115 7 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    FSLC 11.213 13 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed.
    SMC 11.357 1 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter...to the well-known companions on the Mill-dam;...
    Shak1 11.447 13 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

well-laid, adj. (2)

    YA 1.367 27 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account;...
    Art1 2.355 18 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden;...

well-made, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.134 20 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

well-managed, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.51 27 ...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties, develop as drastic a character as the English.

well-manured, adj. (1)

    LT 1.289 23 The granite is curiously concealed...under well-manured, arable fields...

well-marked, adj. (2)

    PNR 4.88 1 ...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
    ET4 5.54 14 I found plenty of well-marked English types...

well-meaning, adj. (4)

    Nat2 3.193 18 What shall we say...of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures?
    GoW 4.268 17 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not...is he well-meaning...but...does he stand for something?
    EWI 11.139 6 [The statesmen's] vocation is a presumption against them among well-meaning people.
    Wom 11.418 22 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...

well-mixed, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.59 18 [Life's] chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
    Aris 10.43 24 ...when the well-mixed man is born...then no gift need be bestowed on him...

well-nigh, adv. (5)

    AmS 1.92 8 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet...says...that which I also had well-nigh thought and said.
    LT 1.272 20 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope, which had well-nigh perished out of the world, that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    PPh 4.72 17 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    Scot 11.462 6 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so reanimated the well-nigh obsolete feudal history...of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    MAng1 12.238 8 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...

well-ordered, adj. (5)

    MoS 4.171 2 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society...
    Elo2 8.110 7 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.
    Insp 8.286 20 ...in our good days a well-ordered mind has a new thought awaiting it every morning.
    PLT 12.20 24 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    Milt1 12.262 11 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.

well-penned, adj. (1)

    QO 8.184 4 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...

well-principled, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.122 1 To a well-principled man existence is victory.

well-proportioned, adj. (2)

    Bost 12.189 27 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along...great troops of well-proportioned people.
    Milt1 12.257 9 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.

well-read, adj. (4)

    ET12 5.212 10 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    Ctr 6.141 24 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    QO 8.178 2 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    PPr 12.388 22 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...

wells, n. (4)

    ET8 5.134 14 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    Bhr 6.180 23 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep,--wells that a man might fall into;...
    Chr2 10.117 14 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use...of wells...
    HDC 11.43 21 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...wells to be dug;...

wells, v. (1)

    F 6.23 7 Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul.

well-spoken, adj. (2)

    SR 2.51 6 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
    NR 3.230 2 England, strong, punctual, practical, well-spoken England I should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.

well-taught, adj. (2)

    Plu 10.298 10 Plutarch was well-born, well-taught, well-conditioned;...
    FRep 11.518 7 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place...of the good, industrious, well-taught but unambitious population...

well-to-do, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.287 24 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse. Not in plenty, not in a thriving, well-to-do condition, she delighteth.

well-toned, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.120 20 Every one of us has at some time been the victim of a well-toned and cunning voice...

well-worn, adj. (1)

    PI 8.49 26 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes. A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him.

well-written, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.

well-wrought, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.278 18 I...was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another. Only the good beasts must have known how to cut a well-wrought tenon and mortise...

Welsh, adj. (7)

    ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
    F 6.21 15 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.
    Bty 6.303 14 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
    Elo1 7.63 14 The Welsh Triads say, Many are the friends of the golden tongue.
    Boks 7.221 8 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...
    PI 8.57 21 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    Insp 8.295 16 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur...

Welsh Bards, n. (1)

    PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...

Welsh Triad, n. (1)

    PI 8.58 2 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.

Welshman, n. (1)

    ET8 5.129 19 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].

wen, n. (1)

    DSA 1.132 4 That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

went, v. (163)

    AmS 1.87 23 [Nature] came into [the scholar] life; it went out from him truth.
    AmS 1.87 25 [Nature] came to [the scholar] short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts.
    AmS 1.87 26 [Nature] came to [the scholar] business; it went from him poetry.
    AmS 1.97 19 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    LE 1.179 4 Napoleon...walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motions in the French mode.
    LT 1.282 1 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...
    Con 1.296 11 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he... went on creating the race of oysters.
    Con 1.297 6 ...Saturn...went on making oysters for a thousand years.
    Con 1.297 11 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature froze, the things that were made went backward...
    Con 1.316 2 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...
    Con 1.321 6 ...the work went on prosperously.
    YA 1.391 5 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    Comp 2.108 3 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    Lov1 2.181 6 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of its own out of which it came into this...
    Mrs1 3.155 12 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse...
    Nat2 3.191 27 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NER 3.268 11 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    PPh 4.44 3 [Plato]...went to Megara...
    PPh 4.44 5 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times...
    PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain.
    PPh 4.71 23 [Socrates]...never willingly went beyond the walls...
    PPh 4.72 25 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter, and he went barefooted;...
    SwM 4.101 6 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England...
    SwM 4.127 27 ...though the virgins [Swedenborg] saw in heaven were beautiful, the wives were incomparably more beautiful, and went on increasing in beauty evermore.
    MoS 4.164 18 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went...
    MoS 4.179 22 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found no entertainment for it...
    ShP 4.192 22 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.206 24 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    NMW 4.236 13 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself. He went to the edge of his possibility.
    NMW 4.243 10 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent, and its appointment to trusts; and his feeling went along with this policy.
    GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
    GoW 4.273 4 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far;...
    ET1 5.10 7 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
    ET1 5.12 4 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...
    ET1 5.14 22 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands.
    ET1 5.18 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills...
    ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    ET4 5.60 16 The Normans came out of France into England worse men than they went into it one hundred and sixty years before.
    ET4 5.61 21 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    ET4 5.63 22 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room while the other cadets went to church;...
    ET5 5.77 12 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him. The strong survived, the weaker went to the ground.
    ET5 5.88 26 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    ET5 5.91 19 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom.
    ET7 5.125 12 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET9 5.152 20 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    ET10 5.168 22 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET11 5.191 9 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the kennels to which the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
    ET11 5.195 11 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...preparing for a private life thereafter...
    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March, 1848.
    ET15 5.265 12 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office...
    ET16 5.285 2 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out, and walked over the estate [at Wilton Hall].
    ET16 5.288 8 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.
    ET16 5.290 2 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET17 5.293 27 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    Pow 6.54 6 [All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but by law;...
    Pow 6.72 19 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Wth 6.113 16 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    Wth 6.121 23 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...
    Bhr 6.193 23 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated...
    Wsp 6.229 20 Not only does our beauty waste, but it leaves word on how it went to waste.
    Wsp 6.235 20 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road...
    Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way;...
    CbW 6.255 17 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
    CbW 6.255 21 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes...
    SS 7.4 24 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London.
    Civ 7.28 15 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...and it went like a charm.
    Art2 7.46 14 The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to what went before in the play...
    Elo1 7.85 2 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.96 13 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...
    DL 7.124 21 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    Farm 7.150 4 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know...
    WD 7.162 22 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    Boks 7.196 9 Dr. Johnson said he always went into stately shops;...
    Boks 7.210 16 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly.
    Clbs 7.248 22 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Cour 7.261 2 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
    Cour 7.262 12 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way.
    Suc 7.285 19 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold...
    Suc 7.304 10 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.
    OA 7.322 21 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made,--an eye that hath seen more than all that went before him...
    OA 7.334 15 [John Adams said] I went [to hear George Whitefield] with Jonathan Sewall.
    PI 8.60 20 [Sir Gawaine] came into the forest of Broceliande, lamenting as he went along.
    Elo2 8.116 9 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent... went at the first draft, or the second...
    Elo2 8.117 27 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    PPo 8.240 25 By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds, so that he heard secrets whenever he went into his gardens.
    PPo 8.253 24 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    Insp 8.277 22 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit, which often went on haste...
    Insp 8.286 18 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Chr2 10.110 27 [Voltaire] was like the son of the vine-dresser in the Gospel, who said No, and went; the other said Yea, and went not.
    Chr2 10.111 1 [Voltaire] was like the son of the vine-dresser in the Gospel, who said No, and went; the other said Yea, and went not.
    Edc1 10.146 3 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
    MoL 10.243 6 Lawyers [in California] went and came with pick and wheelbarrow;...
    MoL 10.251 11 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
    LLNE 10.334 5 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice. This influence went much farther...
    LLNE 10.348 16 [Fourier's] ciphering goes where ciphering never went before...
    EzRy 10.384 20 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
    EzRy 10.387 12 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.389 20 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent... who went by.
    MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga...
    MMEm 10.400 6 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...
    MMEm 10.410 17 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, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them.
    MMEm 10.410 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man went immediately...
    MMEm 10.413 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...just fit for the society I went into...
    MMEm 10.428 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she... went out to ride in it...
    SlHr 10.437 17 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew...
    SlHr 10.437 20 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    Thor 10.454 8 ...[Thoreau] never went to church;...
    Thor 10.458 19 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.
    Thor 10.474 17 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music. He found these...wheresoever he went.
    HDC 11.37 11 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat. Never went white man cold and hungry from Indian wigwam.
    HDC 11.37 16 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    HDC 11.55 25 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...
    HDC 11.56 24 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638. Now the schoolhouse went up.
    HDC 11.63 25 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place, and that they would see done before they went away;...
    HDC 11.76 3 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    EWI 11.103 12 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
    EWI 11.108 21 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.
    EWI 11.110 9 The [slave] trade, under false flags, went on as before.
    EWI 11.110 24 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea. These facts went into Parliament.
    EWI 11.116 5 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...
    War 11.172 6 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.183 19 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom: the sentimentalists went down-stream.
    FSLN 11.221 10 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people, who went to satisfy their eyes...
    FSLN 11.222 6 ...[Webster] went to the principle or essential...
    FSLN 11.227 17 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
    FSLN 11.227 24 Angry parties went from bad to worse...
    FSLN 11.228 10 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do...went through all the Sunday decorums;...
    FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    JBS 11.277 20 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
    HCom 11.342 16 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges!
    HCom 11.342 23 It is easy to recall the mood in which our young men... went to the war.
    HCom 11.343 6 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    HCom 11.344 10 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men, who knew well on what duty they went...
    SMC 11.353 6 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican...
    SMC 11.353 8 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican, like the governors who...went to Kansas, and instantly took the free-state colors.
    SMC 11.356 6 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.
    SMC 11.356 18 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...
    SMC 11.357 8 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists, men who went from a religious duty.
    SMC 11.358 13 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who...went to the field, and died early.
    SMC 11.363 10 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
    SMC 11.364 9 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    SMC 11.368 18 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.371 10 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles to keep themselves from being frozen. On the third of December, they went into winter quarters.
    SMC 11.373 1 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front...
    SMC 11.374 24 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SMC 11.375 1 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    PLT 12.20 7 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.60 7 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child, while all the pagan faculties went ripening on to sixty.
    Mem 12.105 24 Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down through Concord...
    CInt 12.116 21 ...those were the giddy times which went before these...
    CL 12.137 9 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...
    CL 12.150 24 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    CL 12.163 3 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions...
    Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
    Bost 12.199 13 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...
    MAng1 12.220 18 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MLit 12.324 18 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.
    MLit 12.328 1 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.

Wentworth, Thomas [Earl of (1)

    QQ 8.184 2 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.

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