 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...done as handsomely ; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, " What 's the news? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. (Some give directions to be... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...done as handsomely ; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose ; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 348 pages
...done as handsomely ; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, " What 's the news ? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 pages
...done as handsomely ; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose ; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 pages
...Saint Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. . . . Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...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... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 pages
...Saint Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. . . . Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, " What 's the news ? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...done as handsomely ; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose ; and then to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...and have a hand in it, if that is done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner,...sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half -hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed.... | |
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Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, "What's the news? 
