Wibbacowet to Wimborne

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

Wibbacowet, n. (1)

    HDC 11.38 1 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...

wicked, adj. (8)

    DSA 1.143 7 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    MN 1.215 12 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still as wicked...in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?
    SR 2.52 19 ...though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    ET16 5.288 4 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.
    CbW 6.252 13 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
    Cour 7.258 10 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    PI 8.66 9 Show me, said Sarona in the novel, one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry;...
    FSLC 11.195 25 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men...

wicked, n. (4)

    Comp 2.94 8 [The preacher] assumed...that the wicked are successful;...
    F 6.21 14 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.
    PI 8.58 1 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
    MLit 12.315 20 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.

wickedest, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.288 7 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.

wickedness, n. (3)

    Pow 6.66 17 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...
    Grts 8.304 4 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    FSLC 11.187 8 It is not easy to parallel the wickedness of this American law [the Fugitive Slave Law].

Wickliffe [Wyclif], John, n (1)

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

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

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

Wicliffes [Wyclifs], n. (1)

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

wide, adj. (91)

    Nat 1.38 17 ...[the wise man's] scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
    AmS 1.113 20 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
    DSA 1.119 20 How wide; how rich; what invitation from every property [the world] gives to every faculty of man!
    DSA 1.145 13 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    MN 1.202 2 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.224 5 ...[the soul] is...wide as hope...
    MR 1.252 17 See this wide society of laboring men and women.
    LT 1.265 24 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of wide sympathy...
    Tran 1.352 11 ...there must be some wide difference between [the Transcendentalist's] faith and other faith;...
    Hist 2.6 6 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    SR 2.46 15 ...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    Comp 2.116 2 ...there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
    Comp 2.127 4 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
    SL 2.153 9 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    OS 2.285 23 The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    Cir 2.303 18 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    Art1 2.355 27 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure...is beautiful...
    Chr1 3.115 10 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    Mrs1 3.125 19 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is...
    Mrs1 3.149 18 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Mrs1 3.151 7 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Nat2 3.169 17 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.195 2 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.
    Pol1 3.210 2 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for wide suffrage...
    NR 3.233 2 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
    NER 3.256 22 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    UGM 4.20 3 Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.
    ShP 4.199 24 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world...came by wide social labor...
    ShP 4.218 13 Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man [Shakespeare], in wide contrast.
    ET7 5.119 27 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.
    ET8 5.129 20 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].
    ET9 5.147 10 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other. The world is not wide enough for two.
    ET16 5.276 13 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...
    ET16 5.276 19 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... an athletic frame for wide journeying...
    Pow 6.53 23 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can spare the wide gardens from which it was distilled.
    Wth 6.83 14 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Wth 6.102 19 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Ctr 6.137 19 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition...to wide contrasts and extremes.
    Ctr 6.152 13 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    SS 7.2 2 That each should in his house abide,/ Therefore was the world so wide./
    Art2 7.47 5 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
    Elo1 7.92 15 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads, and draw all this wide power to a point.
    DL 7.123 6 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide...
    WD 7.170 3 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
    Clbs 7.246 22 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones; they have traversed wide countries;...
    PC 8.207 16 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    PC 8.211 10 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    PPo 8.244 1 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    Grts 8.301 6 ...[greatness] has...a wide variety of views...
    Imtl 8.350 12 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth...
    Imtl 8.350 16 [Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas! On the wide earth I will make thee the enjoyer of all desires.
    Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
    Dem1 10.3 12 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by...wide intervals of time...
    Dem1 10.3 18 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Chr2 10.109 7 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    SovE 10.202 12 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
    MoL 10.252 22 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    MoL 10.255 9 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart, the wide realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Schr 10.285 10 [Men of talent] go out into some camp of their own, and noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men. ... But the world is wide, nobody will go there after to-morrow.
    Plu 10.299 7 Plutarch's memory is full, and his horizon wide.
    Plu 10.305 19 There is...a wide difference of time in the writing of these discourses [of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.369 22 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources...
    MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.
    SlHr 10.444 7 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection!
    Thor 10.470 4 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool...
    GSt 10.501 18 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    GSt 10.505 12 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    EWI 11.128 14 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    AKan 11.262 10 The land [in California] was measured into little strips of a few feet wide...
    ALin 11.333 25 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
    SMC 11.349 11 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
    Koss 11.398 16 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
    FRep 11.541 25 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
    PLT 12.36 23 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature...
    PLT 12.42 17 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...it were a wide prairie.
    PLT 12.57 13 Wide is the gulf between genius and talent.
    CInt 12.121 11 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CL 12.146 14 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    CL 12.146 21 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough...
    CL 12.146 23 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough: the fence is a mile wide.
    CL 12.148 6 Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide space necessary between house and house...
    CL 12.151 19 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;... and the immensity of life seems to make the world deep and wide.
    CL 12.156 3 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal of prose...
    MAng1 12.219 10 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric; as wide, namely, as the terms of the proposition admit.
    WSL 12.347 5 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers...
    WSL 12.348 1 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.

wide, adv. (14)

    AmS 1.95 7 The world, - this shadow of the soul, or other me, - lies wide around.
    SR 2.78 21 For [the self-helping man] all doors are flung wide;...
    Fdsp 2.216 12 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    Exp 3.47 22 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    ET6 5.109 4 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET16 5.276 17 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain...
    CbW 6.272 24 How [a friend] flings wide the doors of existence!
    Bty 6.293 16 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges...
    Elo1 7.69 3 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    Clbs 7.230 27 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    PI 8.50 1 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    SMC 11.352 13 ...in the necessities of the hour, [Americans]...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it insignificant. But the moral law...kept its eye wide open.
    FRep 11.541 17 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open.
    PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...

wide-falling, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.209 20 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.

widely, adv. (10)

    NMW 4.224 24 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... widely and accurately learned and skilful...
    ET4 5.50 17 The best nations are those most widely related;...
    Clbs 7.225 23 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
    Imtl 8.331 26 ...as [the two men's] homes were widely distant from each other, it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Schr 10.277 21 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
    LLNE 10.339 14 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were widely read...
    LLNE 10.352 4 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    CPL 11.500 14 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
    CW 12.172 3 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...
    ACri 12.294 4 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike, and most widely understood.

widen, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 25 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast...

widened, v. (1)

    Civ 7.22 4 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...

widening, v. (1)

    SMC 11.348 8 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/

widens, v. (1)

    Let 12.398 18 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only...widens the feeling of hostility between them and the citizens at large.

wider, adj. (13)

    AmS 1.100 10 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    MN 1.224 4 ...[the soul] is wider than space...
    MR 1.247 27 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
    UGM 4.29 21 Compromise thy egotism. Who cares for that, so thou gain aught wider and nobler?
    CbW 6.260 23 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    Aris 10.54 6 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Edc1 10.151 9 Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope...
    SovE 10.185 19 ...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral sensibility.
    FSLC 11.212 12 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    Mem 12.110 7 With every broader generalization which the mind makes... its retrospect is also wider.
    MAng1 12.219 9 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric;...
    ACri 12.295 16 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
    MLit 12.335 19 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.

wider, adv. (7)

    SL 2.136 24 If we look wider, things are all alike;...
    ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps the complaint flies wider...
    OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    ACiv 11.302 16 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    SMC 11.353 19 [War] opens the eyes wider.
    FRep 11.537 2 We want men...who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality...
    Mem 12.98 8 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees;...

wide-related, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.40 23 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature...

wide-seeing, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.311 27 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is no express-rider...

widest, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.119 5 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    Grts 8.314 17 [Napoleon] has left...a multitude of sayings, every one of widest application.
    LS 11.4 23 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    FRep 11.530 9 ...the largest thought and the widest love are born to victory...

widest, adv. (1)

    FRep 11.519 2 ...each aspirant for power vies with his rival which can stoop lowest, and depart widest from himself.

wide-stretched, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.18 27 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supported on either side by wide-stretched symmetrical wings.

widow, n. (6)

    Nat 1.37 17 Debt...whose iron face the widow, the orphan...fear and hate;... is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    EzRy 10.383 3 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson, then a widow of thirty-nine...
    EzRy 10.389 10 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing; spared neither maid, wife nor widow...
    MMEm 10.420 14 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr. Emerson's father] and afterwards with his widow.
    HDC 11.51 11 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    MAng1 12.240 6 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna, the widow of the Marquis di Pescara...

widows, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 19 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!

Wieland, Christoph Martin, (5)

    ShP 4.204 8 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing, and the translation of his works by Wieland and Schlegel, that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    MLit 12.325 19 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals, the good Hiller...the friendly Wieland...
    MLit 12.325 20 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...
    MLit 12.325 21 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...
    MLit 12.325 25 [Goethe's journal] was, says Wieland, as good as Xenophon's Anabasis.

wield, v. (4)

    ET11 5.185 25 You cannot wield great agencies without lending yourself to them...
    Art2 7.42 24 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Elo2 8.120 14 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility, especially when trained to wield all its powers.
    Res 8.141 10 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...

wielded, v. (1)

    Art1 2.369 4 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

wields, v. (1)

    ET15 5.272 1 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...

wife, n. (59)

    DSA 1.136 24 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...wife and child?
    Hist 2.29 19 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    SR 2.51 25 I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.
    SR 2.71 24 Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife... because they sit around our hearth...
    SR 2.72 25 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
    SR 2.73 5 I shall endeavor...to be the chaste husband of one wife...
    Comp 2.99 27 [The man of genius] must hate father and mother, wife and child.
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Lov1 2.173 22 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Fdsp 2.207 16 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses...of wife to husband, are there pertinent...
    Hsm1 2.245 22 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Hsm1 2.246 3 Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell.
    Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Exp 3.62 10 In the morning I awake and find the old world, wife, babes and mother...not far off.
    Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
    UGM 4.26 13 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy, or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband.
    PPh 4.40 11 No wife, no children had [Plato]...
    PPh 4.43 18 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.
    SwM 4.129 17 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
    SwM 4.129 18 ...I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife. He aspires to a higher worth in another spirit, and is wife or receiver of that influence.
    MoS 4.157 22 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
    MoS 4.167 5 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my father, my wife and my tenants;...
    ShP 4.202 5 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
    ET4 5.59 5 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody, a wife, or a husband...
    ET4 5.64 4 The right of the husband to sell the wife has been retained [in England] down to our times.
    ET6 5.108 18 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.
    ET6 5.108 27 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET6 5.109 1 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife.
    ET6 5.109 20 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...
    ET13 5.214 15 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me.
    ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    Wth 6.124 10 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.
    Bhr 6.192 3 [The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle...
    Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was to marry Beast...
    Wsp 6.206 11 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...
    DL 7.111 20 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child;...
    DL 7.113 21 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    DL 7.118 23 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    Suc 7.304 15 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    OA 7.327 13 [Man] wants...wife and children, honor and fame;...
    SA 8.93 24 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    Plu 10.295 8 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.298 19 ...[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.
    EzRy 10.384 18 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    EzRy 10.384 21 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 10.385 12 16th May [1735] [Joseph Emerson wrote]: My wife and I rode together to Rumney Marsh.
    EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing; spared neither maid, wife nor widow...
    EzRy 10.393 26 Was a man a sot...or had he quarrelled with his wife, or collared his father...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.405 13 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    HDC 11.52 3 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    War 11.168 7 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight?
    Wom 11.425 20 Every woman being the wife or the daughter of a man... she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.425 21 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...
    Wom 11.426 7 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...
    CPL 11.504 17 The Duchess d'Abrantes, wife of Marshal Junot, tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    II 12.73 14 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be done? How could I do it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,- yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
    EurB 12.375 6 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both...

Wife Timoxena, Letter to hi (1)

    Plu 10.314 11 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

wife's, n. (1)

    GoW 4.275 27 [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.

wig, n. (6)

    MN 1.202 11 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    SwM 4.101 16 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig...
    ET6 5.105 11 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made.
    ET6 5.109 23 [The English] keep...their wig and mace, sceptre and crown.
    OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair of Age.
    Comc 8.165 1 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it...makes the mistake of the wig for the head...

wiggle, v. (1)

    EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.

wigs, n. (1)

    ET11 5.197 26 [Titles of lordship] belong, with wigs, powder and scarlet coats, to an earlier age...

wigwam, n. (3)

    Civ 7.21 8 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Res 8.146 14 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    HDC 11.37 12 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.

wigwams, n. (1)

    HDC 11.34 11 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...

Wilberforce, William, n. (7)

    ET1 5.4 16 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, whom I afterwards saw at Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Wilberforce.
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox...Erskine, Wilberforce... were by this means sent to Parliament...
    EWI 11.108 18 [Thomas Clarkson] himself interested Mr. Wilberforce in the matter [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.109 7 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.109 13 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.128 2 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.141 13 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...

wild, adj. (101)

    Nat 1.9 6 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man...
    Nat 1.53 21 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
    AmS 1.86 21 ...a dream too wild.
    LE 1.168 4 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    MR 1.250 5 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is still under the dominion of his own wild thoughts...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    MR 1.253 20 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    LT 1.264 9 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.284 26 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm...
    LT 1.288 1 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean...
    Con 1.326 11 [Man's hope]...grew here on the wild crab of conservatism.
    Tran 1.332 8 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
    Tran 1.353 4 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    Hist 2.9 20 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments...
    Hist 2.11 8 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    Hist 2.15 19 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Hist 2.34 2 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    Hist 2.35 17 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...
    SR 2.85 22 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost...by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.
    Comp 2.107 10 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
    SL 2.138 3 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.
    Prd1 2.226 12 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Hsm1 2.248 21 A wild courage...shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
    Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
    Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Exp 3.63 20 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
    Chr1 3.106 10 It was only this morning that I sent away some wild flowers of these wood-gods.
    Pol1 3.212 7 Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
    NR 3.245 7 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    SwM 4.138 25 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    NMW 4.247 10 [Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or extravagant force;...
    GoW 4.272 14 [Goethe's Helena] are not wild miraculous songs...
    ET16 5.277 16 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.
    F 6.8 11 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...
    F 6.33 7 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for food...
    Pow 6.64 14 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Pow 6.66 20 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    Wth 6.84 22 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./
    Ctr 6.139 15 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
    Wsp 6.214 13 ...[religion] cannot be grafted and keep its wild beauty.
    Wsp 6.219 9 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    CbW 6.243 19 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
    Ill 6.307 25 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.308 9 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    SS 7.1 15 ...[Seyd] wood-gods fed with honey wild/ And of his memory beguiled./
    Civ 7.17 18 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost...
    Elo1 7.95 23 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    DL 7.106 13 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys...
    Clbs 7.248 18 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine./
    Cour 7.278 22 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./
    OA 7.334 20 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said, not the same wild enthusiasm as before...
    PI 8.4 3 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail.
    Elo2 8.113 22 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Res 8.145 26 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him.
    QO 8.203 14 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    PPo 8.239 20 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures, which have the same kind of effect on the wild tribes of the Persian mountains.
    PPo 8.240 3 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Insp 8.272 9 Rarey can tame a wild horse;...
    Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power.
    Grts 8.317 12 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
    Dem1 10.7 3 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years?
    Dem1 10.7 5 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory?
    PerF 10.73 25 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Edc1 10.145 4 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
    MoL 10.253 8 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.
    Schr 10.265 25 ...if [the poet's] wild prayers are granted...his achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    Schr 10.276 13 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup.
    Schr 10.276 17 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...
    LLNE 10.345 8 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...
    Thor 10.479 12 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    HDC 11.35 10 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.37 4 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of character.
    HDC 11.59 9 The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild beast may;...
    HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.
    HDC 11.62 12 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    EWI 11.114 26 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they were wild with joy...
    War 11.151 21 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.
    War 11.164 18 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
    War 11.164 27 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at Syracuse, in Sicily...
    CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
    FRep 11.537 26 [Our civilization] is a wild democracy;...
    Mem 12.99 3 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...
    Mem 12.99 8 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    CInt 12.125 4 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.149 17 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or wild hemp...for strings;...
    CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild animals.
    CL 12.159 16 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
    CL 12.161 18 How startling are the hints of wit we detect...in the wild animals!
    CL 12.162 1 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...or the slippery-elm, or wild cherries, or wild pears?
    CL 12.162 2 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...or the slippery-elm, or wild cherries, or wild pears?
    CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
    Bost 12.192 8 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.
    Bost 12.202 12 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state out of reach of anything but squirrels and wild pigeons.
    MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...
    MLit 12.318 15 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is better.
    Let 12.404 22 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature is never forborne.

wildcats, n. (1)

    HDC 11.65 26 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...

wilder, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.214 17 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms;...the wilder it is, the more virtuous.
    FRep 11.517 2 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.

wilderness, n. (18)

    Nat 1.10 16 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    AmS 1.95 17 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    LE 1.162 21 ...in this sleeping wilderness, [the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    LT 1.272 19 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    YA 1.392 16 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    NR 3.242 8 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    Civ 7.17 11 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./
    WD 7.164 26 I saw a brave man...hitherto as free as the hawk or the fox of the wilderness, constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    Dem1 10.3 18 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Chr2 10.97 9 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Prch 10.221 14 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    MoL 10.250 10 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    Thor 10.479 14 ...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness for resembling Rome and Paris.
    HDC 11.32 18 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.
    HDC 11.35 23 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...to an Indian town in the wilderness that had nothing, must be laborious to all...
    LVB 11.91 21 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi.
    Bost 12.192 24 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...the dangers of the wilderness were unexplored;...
    MLit 12.316 4 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only the sensibility of the sick...

Wilderness, n. (1)

    SMC 11.371 13 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.

wildernesses, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.159 5 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.

wildest, adj. (6)

    Tran 1.357 24 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius then most when his impulse is wildest;...
    Nat2 3.193 12 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
    Civ 7.24 21 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    WD 7.173 24 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    Imtl 8.347 13 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him;...
    CSC 10.374 14 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...men of every shade of opinion from the straitest orthodoxy to the wildest heresy...

wildly, adv. (3)

    Pt1 3.1 1 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.27 4 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly...
    Dem1 10.28 3 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist...between him and his world; and until he can adequately tell them he will tell them wildly and fabulously.

wile, v. (1)

    PI 8.39 21 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also, can you only wile it from interference and marring.

wiles, n. (4)

    ShP 4.211 10 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...their second thought and wiles; the wiles of innocence...
    Elo1 7.72 2 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels.
    FSLN 11.239 6 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...
    FSLN 11.240 23 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted, stern trials met, wiles of seduction...before [man] dare say, I am free.

Wilfrid [Wilfrith], St., n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.

Wilfrith [Wilfrid], St., n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.

wilful, adj. (11)

    SR 2.65 10 My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving;...
    SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
    Hsm1 2.259 24 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...so wilful and lofty, inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    OS 2.279 9 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine, one for one...
    Art1 2.353 5 Though he were...never so wilful and fantastic, [a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    F 6.21 4 ...all that is wilful and fantastic in [Fate] is in opposition to its fundamental essence.
    Wsp 6.229 27 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make, so only we make no wilful departures from the truth.
    PI 8.29 1 Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
    Dem1 10.19 13 ...I find somewhat wilful...when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    WSL 12.348 16 [Landor] is too wilful, and never abandons himself to his genius.

wilfully, adv. (1)

    Insp 8.296 13 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.

wilfulness, n. (9)

    SR 2.55 25 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
    Int 2.328 11 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.
    Wth 6.120 24 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Art2 7.54 4 There was no wilfulness in the savages in this perpetuating of their first rude abodes.
    Clbs 7.234 15 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    PI 8.39 12 Do [men] think there is chance or wilfulness in what [the poet] sees and tells?
    Dem1 10.5 3 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
    Chr2 10.92 6 ...will, pure and perceiving, is not wilfulness.
    Let 12.395 13 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life...

Wilhelm Meister [Johann von (7)

    GoW 4.277 19 ...I cannot omit to specify [Goethe's] Wilhelm Meister.
    GoW 4.277 20 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...
    MLit 12.328 27 ...we may here set down...the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.
    MLit 12.329 5 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader...would thank them. So did Dante, so did Macchiavel. Goethe has done this in Meister.
    MLit 12.330 15 In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the insight;...
    EurB 12.376 6 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    EurB 12.376 13 A noble book was Wilhelm Meister.

Wilhelm Meister [Johann W. (2)

    ET1 5.21 18 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.
    Chr2 10.121 17 Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister, maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

Wilkes, Charles, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 16 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...

Wilkes Exploring Expedition (2)

    ET4 5.44 17 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    Pow 6.58 17 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...

Wilkinson, James Garth, n. (2)

    SwM 4.111 7 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...
    SwM 4.111 20 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...

Wilkinson, James John Gart (2)

    ET14 5.250 12 Wilkinson, the editor of Swedenborg...has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    ET17 5.292 24 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Wilkinson, Bailey, Kenyon and Forster...

Wilkinson, John Gardner, n. (1)

    Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Wilkinson...

will, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.119 24 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...

will, n. (366)

    Nat 1.5 10 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the [unchanged essences]...
    Nat 1.19 25 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.20 10 In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, [man] takes up the world into himself.
    Nat 1.24 12 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man...
    Nat 1.30 6 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.31 15 We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
    Nat 1.34 1 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God...
    Nat 1.39 26 ...up to the hour when he saith, Thy will be done! [man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.40 1 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes...
    Nat 1.40 15 ...the world becomes at last only a realized will...
    Nat 1.57 22 ...we learn...that with...a virtuous will [time and space] have no affinity.
    Nat 1.65 3 [The world] is not, like [the body], now subjected to the human will.
    Nat 1.72 7 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    DSA 1.123 26 ...the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    DSA 1.124 2 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled...
    LE 1.177 15 How shall [the scholar] know [human life's] secrets...of will...
    MN 1.192 21 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MN 1.197 12 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
    MN 1.204 4 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this...that there is in it no private will...
    MN 1.213 14 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power...
    MN 1.213 15 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power...
    MN 1.214 20 [Virtue] is vitiated by too much will.
    MR 1.253 19 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    LT 1.260 21 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
    LT 1.286 19 [The spiritualists'] fault is...that their will is not yet inspired from the Fountain of Love.
    LT 1.291 7 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every untried project which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.
    Con 1.314 2 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.315 8 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Con 1.324 25 I am primarily engaged to myself...to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things...
    Tran 1.334 23 All that you call the world is...the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are dependent and of those that are independent of your will.
    YA 1.374 2 One of [that serene Power's] agents is our will...
    YA 1.374 3 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will.
    YA 1.376 12 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.376 22 ...this club of noblemen always come at last to have a will of their own;...
    Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...in the triumphs of will or of genius,--anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.13 25 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
    Hist 2.16 23 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    SR 2.58 6 All the sallies of [a man's] will are rounded in by the law of his being...
    SR 2.59 1 ...of one will, the actions will be harmonious...
    SR 2.75 3 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will...
    SR 2.78 10 Discontent...is infirmity of will.
    SR 2.79 3 ...men's prayers are a disease of the will...
    SR 2.81 20 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.
    Comp 2.95 15 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will;...
    Comp 2.99 20 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    Comp 2.105 22 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
    Comp 2.108 8 This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine. It came from thought above the will of the writer.
    Comp 2.110 3 Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
    Comp 2.110 8 With his will or against his will [a man] draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word.
    SL 2.133 1 My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take.
    SL 2.133 14 ...our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    SL 2.134 6 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    SL 2.134 23 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.
    SL 2.136 21 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew...
    SL 2.136 23 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
    SL 2.138 23 ...a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    SL 2.139 4 There is a soul at the centre of nature and over the will of every man...
    SL 2.161 19 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years...according to their ability execute its will.
    Lov1 2.180 27 ...we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it.
    Prd1 2.226 11 The islander may ramble all day at will.
    Hsm1 2.250 14 The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
    Hsm1 2.251 8 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
    OS 2.268 9 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    OS 2.270 21 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will;...
    OS 2.270 22 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will;...
    OS 2.271 9 ...when [the soul] breathes through [man's] will, it is virtue;...
    OS 2.271 13 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself.
    OS 2.279 9 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine, one for one...
    OS 2.279 13 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    OS 2.281 13 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do...
    OS 2.285 27 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    OS 2.286 9 By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered...
    OS 2.294 7 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
    Cir 2.307 1 Alas for...this will not strenuous...
    Int 2.325 20 ...[the mind] melts will into perception...
    Int 2.328 7 What has my will done to make me that I am?
    Int 2.328 21 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression...implies a mixture of will, a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Int 2.337 17 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Art1 2.353 9 Above his will and out of his sight [a man] is necessitated by the air he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
    Exp 3.67 19 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    Exp 3.69 14 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...and allow the most to the will of man;...
    Exp 3.70 25 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will.
    Exp 3.70 26 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope.
    Exp 3.79 17 ...seen from the conscience or will, [sin] is pravity or bad.
    Chr1 3.95 17 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures...
    Chr1 3.97 7 Will is the north, action the south pole.
    Mrs1 3.120 13 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion...
    Mrs1 3.149 26 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    Gts 3.165 9 The best of hospitality and of generosity is also not in the will, but in fate.
    Pol1 3.199 19 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus or Cromwell, does for a time...
    Pol1 3.213 13 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    Pol1 3.220 9 ...according to the order of nature, which is quite superior to our will, it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    NER 3.266 14 ...when [the individual's] will, enlightened by reason, is warped by his sense;...what concert can be?
    NER 3.277 4 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop in his thought, but should penetrate his will or active power.
    NER 3.277 13 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
    NER 3.284 1 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.
    UGM 4.10 25 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they ascend into life...
    UGM 4.28 13 There is such good will to impart, and such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
    UGM 4.28 14 There is such good will to impart, and such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
    UGM 4.35 1 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will.
    PPh 4.62 10 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power, before form, before will, before knowledge...
    PPh 4.67 19 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
    PPh 4.77 22 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.
    SwM 4.93 20 ...there is a class who lead us into another region,--the world of morals and of will.
    SwM 4.94 27 [The moral sentiment] is the kingdom of the will...
    SwM 4.95 1 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will...seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.124 25 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.133 7 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie...cold and still. What seems an individual and a will, is none.
    MoS 4.156 4 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute...of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
    MoS 4.169 18 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me...
    MoS 4.176 3 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
    ShP 4.202 4 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
    NMW 4.234 4 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel, but only as one who knew no impediment to his will;...
    NMW 4.244 3 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
    GoW 4.264 5 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect will and is articulated.
    ET1 5.12 9 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person;...
    ET1 5.12 14 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    ET3 5.43 5 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
    ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
    ET5 5.77 27 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant, though sorely against his baronial or ducal will.
    ET5 5.78 8 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET6 5.104 21 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will;...
    ET8 5.137 26 [The English] are testy and headstrong through an excess of will and bias;...
    ET10 5.164 23 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
    ET13 5.218 2 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET14 5.250 11 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory, in the unequal combat of will against fate.
    ET15 5.268 6 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to proceed from a single will.
    ET18 5.303 14 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...
    ET18 5.305 23 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders. Yet somewhat divine warms at their heart and waits a happier hour. It hides in their sturdy will.
    ET18 5.305 23 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    ET18 5.305 26 ...personality is the token of this race [the English]. Quid vult valde vult. What they do they do with a will.
    F 6.5 13 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    F 6.16 14 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    F 6.21 19 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
    F 6.27 14 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity...not to be separated from will.
    F 6.27 18 [Our thought] is not mine or thine, but the will of all mind.
    F 6.27 26 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
    F 6.28 10 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    F 6.28 17 ...we can see...that affection is essential to will.
    F 6.28 17 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.28 22 There is no manufacturing a strong will.
    F 6.28 23 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.28 25 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth, or their will can be bought or bent.
    F 6.28 27 There is a bribe possible for any finite will.
    F 6.29 16 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    F 6.29 18 ...insight is not will, nor is affection will.
    F 6.29 24 There must be a fusion of [insight and affection] to generate the energy of will.
    F 6.29 26 There can be no driving force except through the conversion of the man into his will...
    F 6.29 27 There can be no driving force except through the conversion of the man into his will, making him the will, and the will him.
    F 6.30 5 The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will.
    F 6.30 6 Society is servile from want of will...
    F 6.36 5 Liberation of the will...is the end and aim of this world.
    F 6.43 23 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
    F 6.48 26 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Pow 6.51 4 His tongue was framed to music,/ And his hand was armed with skill;/ His face was the mould of beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Pow 6.54 2 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
    Pow 6.81 2 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.84 5 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
    Wth 6.87 27 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added...length to the day, and knowledge and good will.
    Wth 6.111 1 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported.
    Bhr 6.169 14 The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners.
    Bhr 6.176 5 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was a puissant will...
    Bhr 6.176 8 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history, and under the control of his will.
    Bhr 6.179 13 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    Bhr 6.181 9 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.
    Bhr 6.181 15 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will...
    Bhr 6.181 27 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you... how [the nose's] forms express strength or weakness of will...
    Bhr 6.184 6 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will...
    Bhr 6.188 1 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Wsp 6.217 25 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.219 6 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.228 27 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will.
    Wsp 6.232 27 It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...
    CbW 6.272 18 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    Ill 6.322 9 ...it is the undisciplined will that is whipped with bad thoughts and bad fortunes.
    Ill 6.324 20 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope, and the will by clothing the laws of life in illusions.
    Ill 6.325 21 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is [the young mortal] that he should resist their will...
    SS 7.3 21 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    Civ 7.27 4 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Civ 7.30 3 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Civ 7.30 8 ...when [man's] will leans on a principle...he borrows [its] omnipotence.
    Civ 7.30 27 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness, and force them to serve against their will the ends of wisdom and virtue.
    Art2 7.47 20 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    Art2 7.49 11 So much as we can shove aside...our prejudice and will, and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Art2 7.49 25 Not [the orator's] will, but the principle on which he is horsed...thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Elo1 7.76 15 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    Elo1 7.79 5 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    Elo1 7.82 7 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo1 7.87 25 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. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession...
    DL 7.111 2 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
    DL 7.113 6 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    DL 7.119 4 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...
    WD 7.155 5 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    WD 7.181 27 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    Boks 7.203 19 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...
    Cour 7.255 7 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...
    Cour 7.259 23 We want the will which advances and dictates.
    Cour 7.266 15 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Cour 7.275 11 ...the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    Cour 7.278 12 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
    Suc 7.303 4 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will...
    Suc 7.309 25 Good will makes insight...
    PI 8.62 2 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her: she cometh when she listeth, for her will is here.
    SA 8.104 15 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people...
    Elo2 8.111 18 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.113 2 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will...
    Elo2 8.117 15 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will...
    Res 8.138 23 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.
    Res 8.144 10 The world belongs to the energetic man. His will gives him new eyes.
    Res 8.153 19 Resources of Man...it is the power of passion, the majesty of virtue and the omnipotence of will.
    Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of wisdom.
    Comc 8.165 1 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony omitting only the will...
    PC 8.218 3 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    PC 8.229 25 The same law holds for the intellect as for the will.
    PC 8.229 26 When the will is absolutely surrendered to the moral sentiment, that is virtue;...
    Insp 8.269 9 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.269 12 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
    Insp 8.270 18 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
    Insp 8.271 15 ...[the man] can see and do this or that cheap task, at will, but it steads him not beyond.
    Insp 8.276 5 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans: the good will, the knowledge...are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.279 18 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone, and passed out of it again, so aloof was it from any will of ours.
    Insp 8.283 10 The power of the will is sometimes sublime;...
    Insp 8.283 11 ...what is will for, if it cannot help us in emergencies?
    Insp 8.290 3 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Insp 8.294 23 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    Grts 8.299 3 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Grts 8.319 12 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
    Imtl 8.333 22 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
    Imtl 8.334 13 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Imtl 8.334 23 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which... receives [his discoveries] as private tokens of the grand good will of the Creator.
    Imtl 8.342 11 It is a proverb of the world that good will makes intelligence...
    Imtl 8.342 16 He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
    Imtl 8.345 5 ...we live by choice; by will, by thought, by virtue...
    Imtl 8.347 26 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong will, arms us above fear.
    Imtl 8.349 1 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will and the immensity of the First Cause.
    Dem1 10.9 10 Sleep...arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
    Aris 10.35 2 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice...in the will of majorities.
    Aris 10.50 23 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will?
    PerF 10.74 3 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    PerF 10.80 5 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
    PerF 10.83 6 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    PerF 10.84 2 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    Chr2 10.91 3 Morals respects...that which all men agree to honor as...good will and good works.
    Chr2 10.91 23 Morals implies freedom and will.
    Chr2 10.91 23 The will constitutes the man.
    Chr2 10.92 5 ...will, pure and perceiving, is not wilfulness.
    Chr2 10.92 13 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
    Chr2 10.92 17 Morals is the direction of the will on universal ends.
    Chr2 10.94 16 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    Chr2 10.97 13 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me; deal THOU with me; let me know it is thy will, and I ask no more.
    Chr2 10.99 4 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.
    Chr2 10.102 20 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Chr2 10.102 23 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    Chr2 10.121 19 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Edc1 10.141 10 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires good will, beauty, wit and select information;...
    Edc1 10.145 12 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.157 3 The will, the male power, organizes...
    Supl 10.165 11 ...one would not...make a codicil to his will whenever he goes out to ride;...
    SovE 10.188 4 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    SovE 10.198 2 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will.
    SovE 10.210 8 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    SovE 10.211 24 The credence of men it is that moulds them, and creates at will one or another surface.
    MoL 10.242 15 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
    Plu 10.306 19 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our will.
    LLNE 10.347 16 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said...there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    LLNE 10.352 13 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...made into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the leader;...
    MMEm 10.401 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will.
    MMEm 10.402 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to [her brothers and sisters]...
    MMEm 10.403 20 It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned [Mary Moody Emerson].
    MMEm 10.415 5 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will...
    MMEm 10.416 20 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    MMEm 10.419 8 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    SlHr 10.439 3 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days through the dishonors of the long defeat...
    Thor 10.464 7 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.31 4 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had, though much against his will, was Archbishop Laud in England.
    HDC 11.37 13 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 11.67 6 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God, and God's will and truths to the people;...
    HDC 11.84 9 The old town clerks [of Concord]...contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community.
    LVB 11.91 6 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
    EWI 11.108 11 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?
    EWI 11.119 8 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...
    EWI 11.120 4 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...
    EWI 11.147 26 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
    War 11.152 18 War...calls into action the will...
    War 11.174 13 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand...
    War 11.175 19 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    FSLN 11.233 2 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment...
    FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    FSLN 11.242 22 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    FSLN 11.243 13 ...though I [Robert Winthrop] am now to deny and condemn you, you see it is not my will but the party necessity.
    AsSu 11.249 7 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    AKan 11.258 22 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
    ACiv 11.299 20 Is not civilization heroic also? Is it not for action? has it not a will?
    ACiv 11.306 10 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    ACiv 11.306 14 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    ACiv 11.307 7 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel. But this will not last;-not for want of sincere good will in sensible Southerners...
    EPro 11.314 21 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    EPro 11.324 16 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
    ALin 11.328 20 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    ALin 11.331 19 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which confirmed good will.
    Wom 11.407 2 Man is the will, and Woman the sentiment.
    Shak1 11.447 11 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
    Humb 11.459 6 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class, with a clear head and an inflexible will [Humboldt].
    Scot 11.466 9 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will.
    FRO1 11.478 7 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...
    FRO2 11.485 3 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    FRO2 11.485 7 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
    FRep 11.521 3 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise; so that will cannot be depended on to save us.
    FRep 11.521 4 How rare are acts of will!
    FRep 11.521 16 General Jackson was a man of will...
    FRep 11.543 18 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...
    FRep 11.543 20 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...mutual increase of good will in the great interests.
    FRep 11.544 10 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will which sent them out.
    PLT 12.44 10 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.
    PLT 12.46 3 Wishing is one thing; will another.
    PLT 12.46 6 Will is the advance to that which rightly belongs to us...
    PLT 12.46 12 Will is the measure of power.
    PLT 12.46 13 To a great genius there must be a great will.
    PLT 12.46 14 If the thought is not a lamp to the will...the wise are imbecile.
    PLT 12.46 16 He alone is strong and happy who has a will.
    PLT 12.46 19 Will is always miraculous...
    PLT 12.54 21 ...a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will;...
    PLT 12.60 23 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will.
    PLT 12.61 27 Good will makes insight.
    PLT 12.64 12 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.
    II 12.68 24 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct...
    II 12.71 23 The poet works to an end above his will...
    II 12.71 24 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will.
    II 12.75 13 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
    II 12.76 11 [The moral sense] is not in our will.
    II 12.77 2 ...our thoughts have a life of their own, independent of our will.
    II 12.77 4 We call genius...divine; to signify its independence of our will.
    II 12.77 17 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    II 12.77 24 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states; you will enter them at will;...
    II 12.81 2 ...the force of method and the force of will makes trade...
    Mem 12.95 12 This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
    Mem 12.97 9 It sometimes occurs that Memory...volunteers or refuses its informations at its will...
    Mem 12.107 9 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation...when our will is suspended,'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Mem 12.108 1 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will.
    CInt 12.111 5 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    CInt 12.119 23 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that their will and purpose is in abeyance...
    CL 12.147 20 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will.
    CL 12.159 14 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    CL 12.166 1 [External Nature] requires a will as perfectly organized,- requires man.
    CL 12.167 10 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then is there a rider to the horse, an organized will...
    Bost 12.193 1 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...
    MAng1 12.215 12 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    Milt1 12.245 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty,/ And his heart the throne of will./
    Milt1 12.277 5 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; by which they might penetrate and possess the imagination and the will of mankind.
    MLit 12.319 7 [Byron's] will is perverted...
    MLit 12.331 26 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.
    Pray 12.353 22 ...let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and dear to thee [My Father]; that now I am beyond the reach of all but thee. How can we not be reconciled to thy will?
    EurB 12.367 26 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.
    EurB 12.369 2 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age, that here not only criticism but conscience and will were parties;...
    EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will...
    Trag 12.407 23 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of the thing, but on an arbitrary will.
    Trag 12.407 25 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
    Trag 12.408 7 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.
    Trag 12.408 8 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.
    Trag 12.408 8 Destiny properly is not a will at all...
    Trag 12.408 20 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

Will, n. (16)

    Nat 1.39 23 The exercise of the Will...is taught in every event.
    Nat 1.75 27 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect... and of the affections...by yielding itself passive to the educated Will.
    Con 1.301 10 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
    Tran 1.330 1 ...the idealist [insists] on the power of Thought and of Will...
    SR 2.89 22 In the Will work and acquire...
    Art2 7.35 4 I framed his tongue to music,/ I armed his hand with skill,/ I moulded his face to beauty/ And his heart the throne of Will./
    Art2 7.39 5 The Will distinguishes [Art] as spiritual action.
    Boks 7.188 3 Unless to Thought be added Will/ Apollo is an imbecile./
    Boks 7.212 9 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
    QO 8.201 27 [Genius] implies Will, or original force...
    Aris 10.51 1 More than taste and talent must go to the Will.
    Edc1 10.137 6 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see...of what new organ the great Spirit had need when it incarnated this new Will.
    MMEm 10.416 2 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
    FSLN 11.231 22 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    Wom 11.407 4 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail...
    PLT 12.37 21 Perception differs from Instinct by adding the Will.

will, v. (10)

    Nat 1.20 5 Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will.
    MN 1.221 11 I will that we keep terms with sin and a sinful literature and society no longer...
    LT 1.260 16 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    Comp 2.118 22 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    Exp 3.60 9 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
    Mrs1 3.132 10 ...strong will is always in fashion, let who will be unfashionable.
    F 6.27 9 He who sees through the design...must will that which must be.
    CbW 6.248 7 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to the man who can will.
    HDC 11.58 21 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do.

Willard, Joseph, n. (1)

    CPL 11.499 1 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...

Willard, n. (2)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Meriam...

Willard, Samuel, n. (1)

    CPL 11.498 25 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...

Willard, Simon, n. (11)

    HDC 11.32 3 With [Bulkeley's party] joined Mr. Simon Willard, a merchant from Kent in England.
    HDC 11.32 10 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.37 21 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians, by Mr. [Peter] Bulkeley and Major [Simon] Willard, was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.38 7 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.
    HDC 11.53 20 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder...
    HDC 11.54 24 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord], Mr. Flint, Lieutenant Willard, and Richard Griffin were appointed.
    HDC 11.57 17 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics, and appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.
    HDC 11.57 21 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard did the least he could...
    HDC 11.57 23 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    HDC 11.58 10 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.

Willard's Purchase, Concord (1)

    HDC 11.48 5 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.

Willard's, Simon, n. (1)

    CPL 11.498 25 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...

willed, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.78 8 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
    Chr2 10.110 20 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...

William, Earl of Nassau, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.149 16 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.

William III, of England, (1)

    Wsp 6.233 4 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...

William of Lorris, n. (1)

    ShP 4.198 2 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...

William of Malmsbury, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 9 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; a third on the Saxon Chronicles, Robert of Gloucester and William of Malmsbury;......

William of Orange, n. (2)

    NMW 4.239 7 There have been many working kings, from Ulysses to William of Orange...
    ET11 5.195 3 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange.

William of Wykeham, n. (2)

    ET4 5.47 9 How came such men as...William of Wykeham, Walter Raleigh...
    ET16 5.289 27 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...and, later, in his own church, William of Wykeham.

William of Wykeham's, n. (1)

    ET16 5.290 14 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

William the Conqueror, n. (2)

    ET4 5.73 3 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
    ET10 5.160 1 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.

William the Norman, n. (1)

    CbW 6.253 16 The oppressions of William the Norman...made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta...

Williams, Roger, n. (2)

    HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
    Bost 12.206 23 From Roger Williams and Eliot and Robinson...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

Williamson's [Williams's], (1)

    War 11.159 5 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

willing, adj. (48)

    AmS 1.113 21 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
    MR 1.256 12 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    MR 1.256 26 ...the time will come when we too...shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
    Con 1.304 25 You who...are willing to embroil all, and risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    YA 1.387 21 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity...
    SR 2.68 6 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go;...
    Comp 2.117 25 A great man is always willing to be little.
    Prd1 2.227 1 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics; the more he has, the less is he willing to spare any one.
    OS 2.293 26 Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
    Exp 3.84 11 In good earnest I am willing to spare this most unnecessary deal of doing.
    Pol1 3.215 17 Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
    PNR 4.84 21 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    GoW 4.279 22 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET1 5.24 18 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth, and was very willing not to shine;...
    ET6 5.106 3 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
    ET8 5.128 27 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they were willing to show that they did not live by their tongues...
    ET11 5.193 16 The respectable Duke of Devonshire, willing to be the Maecenas and Lucullus of his island, is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    F 6.40 17 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Ctr 6.162 15 Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes...
    Bhr 6.196 11 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Bty 6.296 19 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
    Comc 8.162 18 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    PPo 8.247 24 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies, and we should be willing to die when our time comes, having had our swing and gratification.
    Grts 8.304 26 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Imtl 8.329 1 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live;...
    PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... competent to rule, willing to obey.
    PerF 10.81 13 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    Plu 10.309 1 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.
    SlHr 10.437 9 ...[Samuel Hoar] was willing to face every disagreeable duty...
    Thor 10.472 14 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never find it again, yet willing to take his risks.
    Thor 10.478 19 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    LS 11.2 5 ...The word by seers or sibyls told,/ In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,/ Still floats upon the morning wind,/ Still whispers to the willing mind./
    LS 11.7 18 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    War 11.172 2 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;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    War 11.173 26 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.206 9 I am willing to leave [the North and the South] to the facts.
    FSLN 11.228 27 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
    Koss 11.401 1 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
    Wom 11.421 21 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Mem 12.107 3 When the body is in a quiescent state...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
    CInt 12.114 2 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    Bost 12.207 20 We [New Englanders] are willing to see our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.
    Bost 12.209 9 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown...
    Bost 12.209 13 [Boston] is very willing to be outrun in numbers, and in wealth;...
    EurB 12.370 22 The [modern] painters are not willing to paint ill enough;...
    EurB 12.373 2 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press, which sends them to so many willing thousands.
    Let 12.394 12 [The correspondents] are willing to work, so it be with friends.

willing, adv. (1)

    Schr 10.259 5 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...

willing, v. (1)

    SwM 4.125 4 [To Swedenborg] Man is man by virtue of willing...

willingliest, adv. (1)

    DL 7.109 17 A man's money...should represent to him the things he would willingliest do with it.

willingly, adv. (21)

    Nat 1.21 24 Willingly does [nature] follow [man's] steps with the rose and the violet...
    Tran 1.347 27 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share in the public charities, in the public religious rites...
    Lov1 2.185 13 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Pt1 3.35 5 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
    Exp 3.52 23 ...temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself.
    Exp 3.53 16 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing...
    Nat2 3.170 8 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...
    PPh 4.71 23 [Socrates]...never willingly went beyond the walls...
    PPh 4.73 11 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth...
    PPh 4.73 13 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false;...
    PPh 4.77 4 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    PNR 4.84 8 Plato affirms...that no man sins willingly;...
    SwM 4.112 21 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    ET2 5.25 23 I did not go [to England] very willingly.
    Boks 7.197 5 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any others than such.
    Suc 7.294 19 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
    Dem1 10.27 11 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    Thor 10.481 8 ...[Thoreau]...never willingly walked in the road...
    SMC 11.369 2 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.
    II 12.79 12 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    Pray 12.353 10 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life. So must I take up this cross, and bear it willingly.

willingness, n. (4)

    SL 2.134 24 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.
    Mrs1 3.141 2 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity, from the lowest willingness and faculty to oblige, up to the heights of magnanimity and love.
    NER 3.255 15 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade, and the willingness to try that experiment...
    Prch 10.218 16 ...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...

Will-of-the-wisp, n. (1)

    NR 3.229 8 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp vanishes if you go too near...

willow, adj. (2)

    Thor 10.468 12 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
    PLT 12.43 14 There are times when...a boy's willow whistle...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

willow, n. (3)

    Res 8.152 11 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    Res 8.152 23 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.
    CPL 11.499 23 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified than the gay lark...

willows, n. (4)

    SR 2.76 18 Let a Stoic...tell men they are not leaning willows...
    PPo 8.257 4 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.
    Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America,-most of the oaks, most of the willows...
    SHC 11.433 22 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts; and the twenty willows;...

willow-twig, n. (1)

    PI 8.59 22 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.

wills, n. (7)

    YA 1.373 27 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.
    SR 2.58 22 Character teaches above our wills.
    SwM 4.125 17 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is...emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
    ET14 5.236 18 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it in the citation of wills, letters and public documents;...
    Bhr 6.175 21 Tender men sometimes have strong wills.
    SovE 10.204 2 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation-yes, and into wills and legal instruments also...
    Prch 10.234 14 The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist only to feeble wills.

wills, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.41 17 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...
    PI 8.58 20 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    MMEm 10.398 15 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible that she can set them as she wills;...

Wilson, Alexander, n. (1)

    SwM 4.102 11 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...

Wilson, John, n. [Wilson,] (4)

    ET17 5.294 5 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of [John] Wilson, of Mrs. Crowe...
    QO 8.197 22 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson...
    HDC 11.54 6 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    Scot 11.467 24 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Leslie, Sir William Hamilton, Wilson...

Wilson's, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 11 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where the Wilson's plover can be seen and heard?

Wilton, England, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.

Wilton, England, n. (3)

    ET16 5.280 22 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-car...in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    ET16 5.283 22 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    ET16 5.284 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...

Wilton Hall, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...

Wilton House, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.190 11 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written...
    ET16 5.285 13 On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the coach for Salisbury.

wilts, v. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 14 ...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.

wily, adj. (1)

    SA 8.85 21 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.

wimbles, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.227 13 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand the wimbles... and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

Wimborne, England, n. (1)

    ET5 5.78 13 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.

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