The impression on my mind was one of unmitigated squalor. The settler had in every case cut down the more manageable trees, and left their charred stumps standing. The larger trees he had girdled and killed, in order that their foliage should not cast... An Inductive Study of Standards of Right - Page 249by Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
| William James - 1899 - 328 pages
...numher of ' coves,' as they call them there, or heads of small valleys between the hills, which had beeu newly cleared and planted. The impression on my mind...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 1900 - 106 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily: — Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 1900 - 350 pages
...— Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North Carolina, I passed by a large nunv her of ' coves,' as they call them there, or heads of...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 1900 - 324 pages
...— Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North Carolina, I passed by a large numher of 'coves,' as they call them there, or heads of small...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 1902 - 326 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily : — Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 1906 - 328 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily: — Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker - 1923 - 386 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily:-— Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...there he dwelt with his wife and babes — • an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 2000 - 404 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily: — Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
| William James - 2001 - 178 pages
...feels the less. Let me take a personal example of the kind that befalls each one of us daily: — Some years ago, while journeying in the mountains of North...intervals between the stumps and trees with Indian com, which grew among the chips; and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few... | |
| Steven L. Winter - 2001 - 466 pages
...killed, in order that their foliage should not cast a shade. He had then built a log cabin, plastered its chinks with clay, and had set up a tall zigzag...and there he dwelt with his wife and babes — an axe, a gun, a few utensils, and some pigs and chickens feeding in the woods, being the sum total of... | |
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