Whiting, John to Whortleberries

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

Whiting, John, n. (3)

    HDC 11.64 24 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching, namely, Mr. John Whiting, Mr. Holyoke and Mr. Prescott, shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    HDC 11.64 27 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.
    HDC 11.66 4 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss...

Whitman, Mr., n. (2)

    AKan 11.255 2 I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas...
    AKan 11.255 4 I regret...the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting. Mr. Whitman is not here;...

Whitman, Walt, n. (1)

    ACri 12.285 26 Whitman is our American master...

Whitney, Eli, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 27 ...as Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.

Whitney, Rev. Mr., n. (1)

    OA 7.335 18 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice. Whitney dismissed them immediately.

Whitsuntide, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 2 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year,- at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas.

Whittemore, Amos, n. (1)

    Hist 2.37 19 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood"

Whittier, John Greenleaf, n (2)

    FSLN 11.215 9 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    Shak1 11.447 10 ...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;...

whittled, v. (1)

    AmS 1.97 21 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.

Whitworth, Joseph, n. (1)

    ET10 5.160 27 Whitworth divides a bar to a millionth of an inch.

whole, adj. (422)

    Nat 1.28 4 Whole floras...are dry catalogues of facts;...
    Nat 1.38 5 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...

whole, adj. (cont.)

    Nat 1.40 2 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes, nay, the whole series of events...
    Nat 1.50 21 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
    Nat 1.60 4 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
    Nat 1.62 14 ...we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
    AmS 1.82 26 ...you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
    AmS 1.82 27 ...you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
    AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
    AmS 1.102 21 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    DSA 1.124 16 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature.
    DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law, the joy of the whole earth...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    DSA 1.145 1 [Men]...know not that one soul, and their soul, is wiser than the whole world.
    DSA 1.150 13 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.
    DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath, the jubilee of the whole world...
    LE 1.160 13 ...God gave me this crown, and the whole world shall not take it away.
    LE 1.160 15 The whole value of history...is to increase my self-trust...
    LE 1.180 12 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf, and the whole tree of the bough...
    LE 1.182 12 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    MN 1.194 12 ...the whole world feels that thou art in the right.
    MN 1.200 25 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.203 22 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree...
    MN 1.216 17 Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in every part of my life and fortune...
    MR 1.234 3 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...
    MR 1.240 7 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    MR 1.247 17 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    MR 1.248 19 Let [a man]...do nothing for which he has not the whole world for his reason.
    MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
    MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    LT 1.266 4 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    LT 1.266 19 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes; and for a long while none comes up to that mark; but after some time the whole sea is there and beyond it.
    LT 1.273 17 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
    LT 1.273 19 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion...into his custody;...
    Con 1.308 17 I find this vast network, which you call property, extended over the whole planet.
    Con 1.309 9 I cannot then spare you the whole world.
    Con 1.312 9 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.
    Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Con 1.317 27 ...[man] takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore...
    Con 1.319 6 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction; and this omission makes his whole doctrine false.
    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, in which his whole venture is embarked, is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
    Tran 1.332 9 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 1.334 12 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Tran 1.335 21 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.
    Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world;... A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 5205

whole, adj. (cont.)

    Tran 1.343 7 ...if they tell you their whole thought, [Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    YA 1.367 23 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
    YA 1.368 24 The land,-travel a whole day together,-looks poverty-stricken...
    YA 1.369 11 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.370 5 How much better when the whole land is a garden...
    YA 1.380 14 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the whole Industrial Statistics, so called.
    YA 1.383 18 ...the whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
    YA 1.386 15 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction...does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Hist 2.3 5 He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate.
    Hist 2.3 24 A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts.
    Hist 2.10 4 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself...
    Hist 2.10 5 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground.
    Hist 2.11 19 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs...
    Hist 2.12 6 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.24 18 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that, but they must turn the whole head.
    Hist 2.36 3 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
    Hist 2.37 4 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    Hist 2.38 18 [Each man] too shall pass through the whole cycle of experience.
    SR 2.46 5 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
    SR 2.48 7 [Children's] mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered...
    SR 2.53 23 This rule [of self-reliance]...may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.61 4 Character, reality...takes place of the whole creation.
    SR 2.67 10 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts;...
    SR 2.72 5 At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
    SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
    SR 2.83 8 Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;...
    SR 2.85 14 ...the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in [the man in the street's] mind.
    Comp 2.97 6 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole;...
    Comp 2.101 12 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part...all the...whole system of every other.
    Comp 2.101 18 ...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
    Comp 2.103 18 Whilst thus the world will be whole...we seek to act partially...
    Comp 2.105 24 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object...
    Comp 2.119 22 [The mob's] actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
    Comp 2.124 22 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...
    SL 2.139 10 The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
    SL 2.140 10 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.146 16 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure.
    SL 2.150 14 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.161 24 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    Lov1 2.170 19 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
    Lov1 2.185 23 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary state.
    Fdsp 2.191 4 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Fdsp 2.198 5 The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the whole history of our personal relations.
    Fdsp 2.199 8 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God...
    Fdsp 2.201 18 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Fdsp 2.211 22 There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Prd1 2.223 3 Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale...
    Hsm1 2.256 13 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./ These replies are sound and whole.
    OS 2.280 6 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
    OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.
    OS 2.297 15 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
    Cir 2.312 27 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits...
    Int 2.334 6 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Int 2.337 26 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it paints is lifelike...
    Int 2.341 17 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
    Art1 2.363 21 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy.
    Pt1 3.6 16 The poet is...the man...who...traverses the whole scale of experience...
    Pt1 3.10 6 ...[the poet] has a whole new experience to unfold;...
    Pt1 3.17 9 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    Pt1 3.40 16 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
    Pt1 3.42 11 Thou [O poet] shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor...
    Exp 3.57 18 Of course it needs the whole society to give the symmetry we seek.
    Exp 3.59 14 The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.
    Exp 3.61 3 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Mrs1 3.121 25 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Mrs1 3.132 25 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him...
    Mrs1 3.132 27 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
    Mrs1 3.139 11 The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    Mrs1 3.141 15 The favorites of society, and what it calls whole souls, are able men...
    Mrs1 3.144 10 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
    Mrs1 3.145 26 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...whoso touched his finger, drew after it his whole body.
    Nat2 3.180 18 The whole code of [nature's] laws may be written on the thumbnail...
    Nat2 3.183 15 Man carries...the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought.
    Nat2 3.194 2 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    Nat2 3.195 27 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Eugene F. Irey 5206

whole, adj. (cont.)

    Pol1 3.201 25 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a democracy.
    Pol1 3.204 6 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    Pol1 3.206 21 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do...
    NR 3.231 24 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with the compensations) in the individual also.
    NR 3.242 12 ...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
    NR 3.242 22 Nature keeps herself whole and her representation complete in the experience of each mind.
    NR 3.245 9 No sentence will hold the whole truth...
    NER 3.254 22 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him;...
    NER 3.256 11 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    NER 3.259 15 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    NER 3.270 12 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
    NER 3.280 12 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    NER 3.282 16 ...I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    UGM 4.12 2 Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told.
    UGM 4.15 17 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic...
    UGM 4.25 16 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.
    UGM 4.27 16 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.
    UGM 4.30 21 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...look at his whole nation of Paddies.
    UGM 4.31 20 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    PPh 4.41 12 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.50 19 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.71 16 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    PNR 4.82 9 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    SwM 4.103 9 ...[Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    SwM 4.107 14 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
    SwM 4.110 25 ...[Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos, his scientific works being about half of the whole number;...
    SwM 4.113 11 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.143 20 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.175 21 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    MoS 4.178 17 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    MoS 4.183 17 This faith avails to the whole emergency of life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
    ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ShP 4.197 18 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
    ShP 4.214 20 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem.
    NMW 4.230 1 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    NMW 4.242 27 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    NMW 4.256 23 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party...
    NMW 4.257 14 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be begun again.
    GoW 4.272 6 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition, with its international intercourse of the whole earth's population, researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    ET1 5.5 13 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET3 5.36 22 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET3 5.38 16 ...there is no hour in the whole year when one cannot work [in England].
    ET3 5.41 24 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET4 5.51 4 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
    ET4 5.65 13 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome; at least the whole bust is well formed...
    ET5 5.94 1 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
    ET5 5.94 5 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character pervades the whole kingdom.
    ET5 5.98 13 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
    ET7 5.116 19 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET9 5.146 17 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    ET10 5.157 23 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.167 13 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments and their whole generation...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET11 5.196 11 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET12 5.203 6 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art collection] collection in April, 1848.
    ET12 5.204 27 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET12 5.205 7 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of three years and a half.
    ET12 5.207 4 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
    ET14 5.236 11 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    ET14 5.237 4 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
    ET15 5.261 15 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
    ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.
    ET16 5.278 27 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
    F 6.28 19 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization, as if the whole energy of body and mind flowed in one direction.
    F 6.36 10 The whole circle of animal life...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.36 12 The whole circle of animal life...until at last the whole menagerie...is mellowed...for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.36 13 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is...refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.44 3 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
    Pow 6.74 22 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not. A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 5207

whole, adj. (cont.)

    Pow 6.75 9 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen...
    Pow 6.75 13 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
    Wth 6.85 5 [A man] is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood.
    Wth 6.95 18 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    Wth 6.102 26 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
    Wth 6.115 19 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Ctr 6.149 19 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such.
    Ctr 6.153 2 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Ctr 6.160 21 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Bhr 6.169 11 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time, by form...and by the whole action of the machine.
    Bhr 6.175 17 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Bhr 6.176 21 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Bhr 6.177 7 The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.
    Bhr 6.177 10 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    Bhr 6.178 3 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.182 15 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are healthful.
    Wsp 6.202 25 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes...
    Wsp 6.203 26 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Wsp 6.204 22 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture;...
    Wsp 6.238 23 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    CbW 6.269 24 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    Bty 6.282 2 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
    Bty 6.303 19 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world...
    SS 7.8 14 'T is no wonder, when each has his whole head, our societies should be so small.
    Civ 7.34 22 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Art2 7.50 16 The whole language of men...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Art2 7.51 4 ...we arrive at this conclusion, which I offer as a confirmation of the whole view, that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Elo1 7.63 6 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.
    Elo1 7.68 19 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
    Elo1 7.70 16 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators...in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    Elo1 7.92 4 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see;...
    Elo1 7.98 14 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    Elo1 7.100 7 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    DL 7.106 24 ...Pilgrim's Progress...what a wardrobe to dress the whole world withal, are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    DL 7.114 25 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and reform.
    DL 7.116 12 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched.
    DL 7.116 25 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct the whole system of our social living.
    DL 7.118 6 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    DL 7.130 24 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble...for they know by heart the whole instinct of majesty.
    Farm 7.144 14 The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth...
    Farm 7.148 5 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which shakes the whole garden and throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    WD 7.171 16 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
    WD 7.185 1 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    Boks 7.192 26 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...whose eyes sweep the whole horizon of learning.
    Boks 7.194 11 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
    Boks 7.213 25 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated, the whole man reeling drunk to the music, they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Boks 7.220 18 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Boks 7.220 24 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    Clbs 7.242 3 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Cour 7.256 14 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Suc 7.286 16 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    Suc 7.296 27 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which the whole empire of matter is worked.
    Suc 7.307 3 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet, so that the whole system is inundated with the tides of joy.
    PI 8.8 4 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    PI 8.57 25 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound.
    PI 8.63 19 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside and the whole world also, and planting itself.
    PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its...whole history.
    PI 8.69 14 The book [Goethe's Faust]...stands unhappily related to the whole modern world;...
    PI 8.71 16 The poet is representative,--whole man, diamond-merchant, symbolizer, emancipator;...
    PI 8.73 18 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor...
    SA 8.94 22 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...danger and gloom to the whole company.
    SA 8.99 26 In a whole nation of Hottentots there shall not be one valuable man...
    SA 8.101 24 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor;...
    Elo2 8.115 22 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is superfluous.
    Elo2 8.124 19 The orator must command the whole scale of the language...
    Res 8.143 20 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers...
    Res 8.143 26 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of wisdom.
    Comc 8.163 1 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire. Eugene F. Irey 5208

whole, adj. (cont.)

    Comc 8.164 10 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Comc 8.173 6 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism, which would find brothers in a whole nation?
    QO 8.182 9 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...until it is at last the work of the whole communion of worshippers.
    QO 8.183 6 ...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is presently believed to be his own.
    PC 8.212 12 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like...
    PC 8.215 3 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do...
    PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    PPo 8.244 10 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    PPo 8.259 9 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion...
    Insp 8.276 6 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans: the good will, the knowledge, the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.294 7 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart the whole realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Grts 8.303 4 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Grts 8.305 11 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...others in the elements of which the whole world is made.
    Imtl 8.324 27 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
    Imtl 8.335 1 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees, say of the sequoias, a few of which will span the whole history of mankind;...
    Dem1 10.9 23 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.14 19 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
    Dem1 10.28 5 The whole world is an omen and a sign.
    Aris 10.37 9 ...[the common man's] whole life is a hurry.
    Aris 10.40 15 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.47 24 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess; must truckle for it. This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world.
    Aris 10.53 26 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...
    Aris 10.62 15 ...[the gentleman] will find...in the civility of whole nations, vulgarity of sentiment.
    PerF 10.74 4 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...
    PerF 10.80 21 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time...
    Chr2 10.99 7 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person: his whole duty is to this rule and teaching.
    Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole nation of underlings.
    Chr2 10.113 10 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty...
    Edc1 10.148 19 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.
    Edc1 10.153 27 ...the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.
    Supl 10.166 5 A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams...
    Supl 10.172 12 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    Supl 10.173 8 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    SovE 10.196 25 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
    SovE 10.199 22 God is one and omnipresent; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
    SovE 10.206 5 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    MoL 10.244 19 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    MoL 10.256 1 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul. And this design must shine through the whole performance.
    Plu 10.321 12 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
    LLNE 10.329 6 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...
    LLNE 10.336 21 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology, and the whole train of discoveries in every department.
    LLNE 10.340 27 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...
    LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
    LLNE 10.353 16 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...
    EzRy 10.395 9 ...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were consistent.
    MMEm 10.416 15 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.
    MMEm 10.422 23 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    MMEm 10.432 3 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    Carl 10.490 4 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.
    Carl 10.491 3 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    LS 11.5 20 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John...this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    LS 11.7 25 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...and meant to impose a memorial feast upon the whole world.
    LS 11.15 12 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men, to be extended gradually over the whole world.
    LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression.
    LS 11.22 18 The whole world was full of idols and ordinances.
    LS 11.24 10 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
    HDC 11.40 11 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    HDC 11.49 10 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.71 14 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    HDC 11.78 4 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    HDC 11.82 6 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.
    EWI 11.105 12 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
    EWI 11.106 7 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible...with the whole spirit of English law.
    EWI 11.109 2 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.109 10 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost. A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 5209

whole, adj. (cont.)

    EWI 11.120 18 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EWI 11.126 15 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    EWI 11.127 15 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    EWI 11.143 1 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import. Their whole future is in it.
    EWI 11.144 13 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this...
    War 11.152 22 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
    War 11.158 13 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.163 26 ...always we are daunted by the appearances; not seeing that their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
    FSLC 11.180 4 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as painfully affected.
    FSLC 11.180 16 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's Diary, which the whole country has been reading; Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.185 8 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.196 17 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.
    FSLC 11.200 2 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare, which cast light on the whole frame of society.
    FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.221 23 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...and the whole occasion was answered by his presence.
    FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.227 22 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    FSLN 11.232 4 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground;...
    AsSu 11.248 4 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole country...
    AsSu 11.248 6 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AKan 11.257 24 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is no accidental brawl...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.261 12 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
    JBB 11.268 22 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    JBB 11.269 20 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown, and through them the whole civilized world;...
    ACiv 11.299 11 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country...
    ACiv 11.299 24 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    ACiv 11.303 5 Better the war...should threaten fracture in what is still whole...and so...exasperate our nationality.
    ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
    ACiv 11.306 12 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
    ACiv 11.306 20 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
    ACiv 11.307 20 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    EPro 11.323 27 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    EPro 11.324 13 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 11.332 21 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    HCom 11.340 19 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.352 16 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    SMC 11.364 26 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles, for it saved the whole regiment from sleeping out-doors;...
    SMC 11.365 6 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to see the whole regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
    SMC 11.371 26 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
    SMC 11.373 21 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money, but because he thought it his duty. These are not my feelings only, but of the whole regiment.
    Koss 11.398 26 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win [from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;...it has proved sound and whole;...
    Wom 11.407 13 ...[women] give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortune on the die...
    Wom 11.419 15 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Shak1 11.449 22 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written; until the problem of the whole English race is solved.
    Humb 11.457 13 ...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.
    ChiE 11.474 18 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    CPL 11.498 12 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    CPL 11.508 23 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    FRep 11.513 6 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power...
    FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    FRep 11.521 14 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not gainsay it when it was spoken.
    FRep 11.537 21 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...
    FRep 11.542 4 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    PLT 12.9 23 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet, or with his voice, eyes, ears, or with his whole body, the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.
    PLT 12.27 12 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
    PLT 12.31 19 [A man's aptitude] is...an organic sympathy with the whole frame of things.
    PLT 12.35 8 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth...always whole, never distributed...
    PLT 12.42 23 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself... Eugene F. Irey 5210

whole, adj. (cont.)

    PLT 12.48 9 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
    II 12.66 1 't is very certain than a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.69 7 The whole art of man has been an art of excitation...
    II 12.79 1 The whole ethics of thought is of this kind, flowing out of reverence of the source...
    II 12.80 16 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. The whole world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle, which distributes men.
    II 12.85 1 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.
    II 12.85 4 [The source of thought's] whole equipment is new...
    II 12.87 22 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
    Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
    Mem 12.100 3 ...a principle of the reason will thrill and magnetize and redistribute the whole world.
    Mem 12.100 27 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
    Mem 12.101 7 So is it with every fact in a new science...each one adds transparency to the whole mass.
    Mem 12.109 10 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CInt 12.121 15 The whole battle is fought in a few heads.
    CL 12.135 18 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.
    CL 12.137 25 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
    CL 12.145 11 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.
    CL 12.146 13 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    CL 12.161 4 ...Goethe, whose whole life was a study of the theory of art, said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    CW 12.177 23 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even, because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...
    Bost 12.190 14 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    Bost 12.195 26 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world.
    MAng1 12.232 16 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    MAng1 12.235 19 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's]...
    Milt1 12.272 22 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.
    ACri 12.287 15 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...
    ACri 12.289 8 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...
    ACri 12.292 15 Never use the word development, and be wary of the whole family of Fero.
    MLit 12.314 6 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    MLit 12.321 5 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them...utter their whole heart manlike among their brethren.
    EurB 12.376 10 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.
    PPr 12.385 7 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air, illuminates the whole horizon, and shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
    Trag 12.414 27 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.

whole, n. (113)

    Nat 1.24 4 ...nothing but is beautiful in the whole.
    Nat 1.32 26 ...the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
    Nat 1.33 5 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...
    Nat 1.43 12 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole...
    Nat 1.43 13 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time...partakes of the perfection of the whole.
    Nat 1.47 21 The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.66 9 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Nat 1.69 8 The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of pleasure./
    AmS 1.114 4 ...in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason;...
    LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    LE 1.182 8 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then he is a whole, and not a fragment;...
    MN 1.204 5 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency...
    MN 1.211 17 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...
    MR 1.248 2 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...
    Con 1.299 24 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Con 1.310 18 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character, on the whole, the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
    Con 1.316 10 Your words are excellent, but they do not tell the whole.
    Con 1.322 13 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    YA 1.373 6 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness, serving the whole even to the ruin of the member;...
    YA 1.384 9 ...on the whole one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
    Hist 2.4 9 If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
    Hist 2.18 3 The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.
    SR 2.66 4 It must be that when God speaketh he should...new date and new create the whole.
    Comp 2.102 22 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
    Comp 2.105 3 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Comp 2.121 3 Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.
    SL 2.136 17 ...why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole of Christendom?
    OS 2.269 7 ...within man is the soul of the whole;...
    OS 2.269 17 We see the world piece by piece...but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
    Int 2.338 26 The intellect is a whole...
    Int 2.339 22 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Art1 2.351 3 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
    Art1 2.355 17 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole...
    Pt1 3.13 19 ...nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
    Exp 3.56 16 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular?
    Mrs1 3.151 22 [Lilla] was a unit and whole...
    Gts 3.162 15 We ask the whole.
    Nat2 3.196 19 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    Pol1 3.213 19 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...
    NR 3.233 7 I am faithful again to the whole over the members in my use of books.
    NR 3.234 3 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    NR 3.236 11 It is all idle talking: as much as a man is a whole, so is he also a part;... A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 5211

whole, n. (cont.)

    NR 3.236 23 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
    NR 3.242 22 ...the points come in succession to the meridian, and by the speed of rotation a new whole is formed.
    PPh 4.62 18 There is a scale; and the correspondence...of the part to the whole, is our guide.
    PPh 4.63 9 The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.64 23 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    SwM 4.106 23 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was...an instrument through which the soul feeds and is fed by the whole of matter;...
    SwM 4.122 10 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper...is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    MoS 4.176 9 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
    MoS 4.184 8 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...
    NMW 4.223 9 It is Swedenborg's theory...as it is sometimes expressed, every whole is made of similars;...
    GoW 4.274 26 Eyes are better on the whole than telescopes or microscopes.
    GoW 4.287 20 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it...that his sight was microscopic and interfered with...the seeing of the whole?
    ET4 5.52 1 On the whole [the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET5 5.98 9 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;-- made-up men with made-up manners;--and thus the whole is Birminghamized...
    F 6.14 8 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...
    F 6.35 22 The direction of the whole and of the parts is toward benefit...
    Wth 6.89 12 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.89 13 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wsp 6.212 4 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    Wsp 6.240 11 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.257 9 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy, and had turned out on the whole so successfully, that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    Bty 6.301 13 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
    Ill 6.319 21 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
    SS 7.1 26 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./
    Elo1 7.93 6 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    Elo1 7.93 7 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is...inflamed by the contemplation of the whole...
    Elo1 7.93 10 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences uttered by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees...
    DL 7.108 2 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    Farm 7.135 25 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole./
    Boks 7.216 19 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success or scare them with shocks of tragedy. And so, on the whole, 't is a juggle.
    PI 8.17 3 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    Res 8.153 17 Resources of Man...it is the whole of memory, the whole of invention;...
    Comc 8.158 16 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part.
    Comc 8.158 17 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part. Reason is the whole, and whatsoever is not is a part.
    Comc 8.158 18 The whole of Nature is agreeable to the whole of thought, or to the Reason;...
    Comc 8.158 19 The whole of Nature is agreeable to the whole of thought, or to the Reason;...
    Comc 8.158 21 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
    Comc 8.159 23 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring...the ideal whole...
    Comc 8.173 23 ...explore the whole of Nature...
    QO 8.192 11 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation].
    QO 8.200 25 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
    PC 8.224 8 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...an unbroken unity, and the mind of man is a key to the whole.
    Grts 8.305 14 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Grts 8.315 18 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Imtl 8.329 20 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not; and we, if we saw the whole, should of course see that it was better so.
    Dem1 10.4 26 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole;...
    Dem1 10.5 2 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream], and the whole is lost.
    Chr2 10.92 27 ...justice is the application of this good of the whole to the affairs of each one;...
    Chr2 10.93 2 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    SovE 10.197 10 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    SovE 10.197 11 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    SovE 10.197 16 I am representative of the whole;...
    SovE 10.197 17 ...the good of the whole, or what I call the right, makes me invulnerable.
    EzRy 10.389 25 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    Thor 10.471 22 Every fact lay in glory in [Thoreau's] mind, a type of the order and beauty of the whole.
    FSLC 11.205 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
    FSLN 11.223 3 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    SMC 11.352 24 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    FRep 11.528 2 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict...of the greatest number.
    FRep 11.542 27 On the whole, I know that the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.
    II 12.87 10 As the whole has its law, so each individual has his genius.
    II 12.87 14 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
    CW 12.170 6 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole..../
    CW 12.170 12 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/ Better, the linked purpose of the whole./
    CW 12.179 11 ...when [the man] sees...the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic, as well as the sense and scope of the whole...
    MAng1 12.220 10 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.
    MAng1 12.227 5 Michael [Angelo] removed the whole, and constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
    Milt1 12.249 16 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language; but the whole is sacrificed to the particular.
    ACri 12.290 10 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    MLit 12.310 10 [Poems' light] is not in their grammatical construction which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me, but is the genius and suggestion of the whole.
    Trag 12.408 6 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.

Whole, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.18 24 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Comc 8.158 26 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...comparing it with eternal Whole;... Eugene F. Irey 5212

Whole, n. (cont.)

    Comc 8.159 9 In virtue of man's access to Reason, or the Whole, the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
    MAng1 12.218 4 This great Whole the understanding cannot embrace.
    MLit 12.336 4 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole...

wholeness, n. (4)

    MN 1.199 13 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.
    Fdsp 2.202 21 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
    Int 2.340 13 [The intellect] must have the same wholeness which nature has.
    Comc 8.159 9 ...the human form is a pledge of wholeness...

wholes, n. (8)

    Ill 6.319 19 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    PI 8.9 11 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    Comc 8.157 10 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
    LLNE 10.335 5 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    PLT 12.4 20 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working, in wholes and in every detail, after the laws of the human mind.
    PLT 12.14 15 The poet sees wholes and avoids analysis;...
    II 12.74 22 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
    MLit 12.323 22 ...of [Goethe's] analysis, always wholes were the result.

wholesale, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.139 17 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.

wholesome, adj. (20)

    UGM 4.3 11 ...[good men] make the earth wholesome.
    PPh 4.63 20 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    ET3 5.36 10 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility, but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect.
    F 6.23 16 ...it is wholesome to man to look not at Fate, but the other way...
    F 6.32 3 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    Elo1 7.97 10 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he...has engaged himself to wholesome exertion.
    WD 7.183 12 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality,--no stilts, no tiptoe; and their results are wholesome and memorable to all men.
    Suc 7.308 9 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    Elo2 8.122 3 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
    Imtl 8.345 10 ...whilst I find the signatures, the hints and suggestions, noble and wholesome...yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Dem1 10.16 26 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    PerF 10.69 23 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command...
    PerF 10.85 27 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Prch 10.228 1 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet and poetic?
    Schr 10.286 17 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
    HDC 11.47 9 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws.
    EPro 11.322 15 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    FRO2 11.489 10 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome...
    Bost 12.184 24 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth, through wholesome springs...were preferred before others.

wholesome, adj. (cont.)

    MAng1 12.215 17 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.

wholesomely, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.205 20 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...if not wholesomely, then poisonously;...

wholesomeness, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.480 23 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up, like joyful plants of wholesomeness, all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...

wholesomest, adj. (1)

    Let 12.403 21 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

wholly, adv. (28)

    Nat 1.41 14 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    Nat 1.50 27 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly detached from all relation to the observer...
    DSA 1.127 17 ...the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of...
    DSA 1.139 22 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are...wholly insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the people.
    SR 2.50 18 ...What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?...
    SR 2.68 26 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
    Lov1 2.184 21 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied...
    Lov1 2.184 22 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled...
    Lov1 2.187 21 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...wholly above [the lovers'] consciousness.
    Pt1 3.22 23 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things, whether wholly or partly of a material and finite kind.
    Mrs1 3.145 19 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
    Mrs1 3.149 12 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    Nat2 3.172 8 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    PI 8.74 12 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages, and other men report as much, but none wholly and well.
    Imtl 8.344 21 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real.
    Dem1 10.26 2 It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and sentiment...
    SovE 10.184 20 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties.
    Prch 10.230 7 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force...the same as his own, but wholly applied to the priest's things.
    GSt 10.505 14 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...
    LS 11.13 23 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    HDC 11.53 24 It was remarkable that the preaching was not wholly new to [the Indians].
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...perhaps wholly false,-that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    TPar 11.284 10 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    PLT 12.47 13 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    CInt 12.114 20 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    MLit 12.330 5 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
    WSL 12.345 20 A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed and catechism...[character] works directly and without means...
    EurB 12.369 5 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds... A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 5213

whoop, v. (1)

    SL 2.158 1 In every troop of boys that whoop and run in each yard and square, a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.

whooping, n. (1)

    PPh 4.47 18 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...

whooping-coughs, n. (1)

    SL 2.132 17 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs...

whoremongers, n. (1)

    ET7 5.121 3 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...

whortleberries, n. (1)

    CL 12.150 4 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills, which have grass on their south and whortleberries on the north; (3) aspens...

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