 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 did not wish to live what was not life,...  Modern English Prose - Pàgina 377editat per - 1904 - 481 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pàgines
...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 ; so that when he came to die, he might not discover that... | |
 | 1865 - 476 pàgines
...with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because he " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks... | |
 | 1865 - 456 pàgines
...with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because be " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 pàgines
...confusion of cities, but in the solitude of the forest hoped to perpetuate them in his life. He says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...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." In such... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pàgines
...of training himself for his especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account : — " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...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... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pàgines
...of training himself for his especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account :— " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front 616 Thoreau : Hermit and Thinker. only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1879 - 362 pàgines
...narrow craft. He felt, with the great Agassiz, that he could not waste time making money. He says, " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to find out the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pàgines
...Massachusetts, and 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 wanted... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 358 pàgines
...after 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."... | |
 | 1887 - 732 pàgines
...higher aims ! than the anchorites of old. He went to the ' woods, as he himself has told rs, 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-year»' sojourn, not a life- visit... | |
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