 | Leo J. Eiden - 1981 - 1298 pàgines
...action that he held fast to the soil. «Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward. . .till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place,...can call reality and say: this is, and no mistake». (Math. pg. 164). The nature to which Emerson gave utterance is far more etherealized that Wordsworth's... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pàgines
...a transcendence downward "through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place,...can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake." In the "Conclusion," he looks back on his religious experiment in "home cosmography" and tries to extrapolate... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1986 - 366 pàgines
...Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry, philosophy, and religion, till we come to a hard bottom...can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; Be it life or death, we crave reality. (97—98) This passage ends by saying that the good is defined... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 pàgines
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice, and tradition and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...Concord, through church and state, through poetry, philosophy, and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality,... | |
 | Leonard N. Neufeldt - 1989 - 229 pàgines
...and Boston and Concord, through Church and State,—through poetry and philosophy and religion—till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say this is, and no mistake;—and then begin, having a. point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where... | |
 | Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pàgines
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, ... a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamppost safely. ... If you stand right... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 pàgines
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...can call reality, and say. This is, and no mistake; 3 and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 pàgines
...through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance . . . through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we...can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake. . . . (WA 97-98) Against A Week's loose and grab bag structure of layers sliding against themselves... | |
 | David Riesman - 276 pàgines
...constraint, they distrusted all given authority, all given institutions:* they sought (in Thoreau 's words) "hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call...and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin." We must indeed begin there — begin by seeing reality clear. But further steps, even towards the grasp... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 pàgines
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we 4. Henry David Thoreau, Waiden in Writings, 210, 221-22. 5. The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau,... | |
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Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and... 
