 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life,...  Modern English Prose - Page 369edited by - 1904 - 481 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 392 pages
...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself ; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came tc die, discover that I had not lived." He found... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1902 - 388 pages
...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself ; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...to front only the essential facts of life, and see ifI could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 pages
...the equal certainty of everlasting life.2 HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) I WENT to the woods [1845] because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 684 pages
...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach ; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' Several... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 682 pages
...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach ; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' Several... | |
 | 1902 - 642 pages
...surely, for this earnest man was not one to act the fool. " I went to the woods," he acquaints us, " because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1902 - 408 pages
...that this residence was an experiment and only that? In a nugget, he summarized his purpose, — " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." Thoreau thus represented the theoretical inquiries of the Transcendentalists... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 474 pages
...W alden was .chiefly important because it tried to prove something. "I went to the woods," he says, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Nowadays,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 pages
....chiefly important because it tried to prove something. "I went to the woods," he says, " because 1 wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Nowadays,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...inform us how this might be done. II wqnt. tn t.hc; yo,prlg Viaraiiap T wiahpfl to live deliberately,-to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not livedA I did not... | |
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