I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life... American Literature - Page 385edited by - 1926 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
| University magazine - 1877 - 814 pages
...it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to ' glorify God and enjoy him for... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...did life, living is*"~ nor did I wish to practise resignanless it was quite necessary. I wanted ive deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty f nn -is of the devil or of God, 'Hat hastily concluded that .d of man here to " glorify forever."... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 pages
...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Why did he choose Wai den for the scene of his voluntary isolation ? Hear him : " Why, here is Walden,... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...support himself for five years. Lived in his shanty at Waiden on some fifteen dollars a year. He says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." "Able to give a true account of it in my next excursion" — that journey made with closed eyes and... | |
| Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden was, in fact, to Thoreau what Brook Farm was to others of the transcendentalists — a retreat... | |
| 1903 - 696 pages
...so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and cut close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." In order to put into effect to the utmost these ideals and purposes he did about everything for himself... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end 'of man here to " glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary, vj wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have ^somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to " glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."... | |
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