 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." In another place he says he went to  Henry D. Thoreau - 210. oldalszerző: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 324 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 oldal
...to my window, attracted by my light, 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 ; «o that when he came to die, he might not discover that... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 oldal
...solitude 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."... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1887 - 292 oldal
...understood just now, thanks to his careful biographers; and it is a generally accepted fact that he " went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately,...when he came to die, discover that he had not lived." His own words are well known: " My purpose in going to Walden was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly... | |
 | 1887 - 732 oldal
...solitary. He had higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went to the woods, as lie himself has told us, because he wished "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermit of the East. But it was only а two-years' sojourn, not a life-visit... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 oldal
...solitary. He had higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went to the woods, as he himself has told us, because he wished " to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermits of the east. But it was only a two-years' sojourn, not a lifevisit,... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 oldal
...different 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 Whitman. gi not learn what it had to teach, and riv .1 I came to die, discover that I had not... | |
 | Margaret Sidney - 1893 - 194 oldal
...the 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 nc¿ learn what it had to teach, and not, wilen I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... | |
 | 1915 - 552 oldal
...self-made conventions, and get back to its primal state. "I went to the woods says Thoreau because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. * * *" But the essentials of life are not found by fleeing one's fellow-men. Emerson was misinterpreted;... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 oldal
...we get, the oracles would 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.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 530 oldal
...get t ^he oracles would 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.... | |
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