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 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 Seiten
...barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.' Mr Thoreau went to the woods, because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see whether he could learn what it had to teach ; so that when he came to die, he might not discover that... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 Seiten
...of the forest hoped to perpetuate them in his life. He says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 Seiten
...business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account : — " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I emitl not learn what it bad to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I... | |
 | 1921 - 744 Seiten
...retired to the woods to lead the life of a recluse. "I went to the woods," he writes, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I... | |
 | Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 Seiten
...haunts of men, to a life in the woods? His own words tell us: " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ...... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 Seiten
...temperament, resolved to go out into the world, to absorb Nature and the health of Nature : " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 Seiten
...his shanty at Waiden on some fifteen dollars a year. He says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I... | |
 | 1903 - 696 Seiten
...records his experiences as hermit at Walden Pond, he writes : "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1892 - 360 Seiten
...giving up his hermitage. He, in fact, as he says himself, — " Went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 Seiten
...the oracles woidd distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I... | |
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