 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...the bell rings, why should we run ? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us s=ttle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through...opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearnnce, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston... | |
 | 1897 - 418 pages
...what do we see but the sky and the sun ?" Thus in various ways he endeavored to "work and wedge [his] feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion,...appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe." And among the genuine things his search revealed to him the supremely beneficent one was Nature. His... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 pages
...confident that " there is a solid bottom everywhere " if we only have the courage to sink to it. " Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet...prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, ... to a hard bottom and rock in place โ which we can call reality." When Thoreau says he is seeking... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet...opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearances, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet...opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearances, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 pages
...kind of music they are like. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Let us settle ourselves, and work and (1804-1864) wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, 10 A VIEW OF CONCORD and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe,... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 pages
...wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, ั ะด VIEW OF CONCORD and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, Sunday, August Jth [1842]. โ At sunthrough Paris and London, through New set last evening I ascended... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 pages
...should we run ? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves, and_wprk and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and '' -covers the globe, through Paris and London, througTTNew York "and Boston and Concord, through Church... | |
 | Leverett T. Smith (Jr.) - 2004 - 302 pages
...the surface of things. We think that that is which appears to be." (p. 79) He appeals to humanity to "settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward...and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we call reality, and say, This is, and... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...nature of his quest as a kind of inverted spiritual odyssey which attempts to negotiate 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, which we can call reality, and say, This is,... | |
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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... 
