 If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, —...  The Study of a Novel - Seite 229von Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 331 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1874 - 792 Seiten
...twenty years ago. "I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. " " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities." But even this philosopher admits that he read one news.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 Seiten
...years ngo. " I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and tliey who edit and read it are old women over their tea." " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 Seiten
...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 Seiten
...greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself. tions? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 Seiten
...you are acquainted with the principle, what do you pare for a myriad instances and applications ?_J To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 Seiten
...winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with Old Marlborough Road the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 Seiten
...his head and asks, " What 's the news ? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 Seiten
..."What's the news?" as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all vews, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a... | |
 | Alfred Henry Lewis - 1901 - 434 Seiten
...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a million instances and applications? To a philosopher all 'news,' as it is called, is gossip; and they... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 Seiten
...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
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