 | 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...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Nowadays, however, we care much less for what Waiden tries to prove than for what its author heard... | |
 | 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...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Nowadays, however, we care much less for what Walden tries to prove than for what its author heard... | |
 | 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...and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not livedA I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation,... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 348 pages
...about two miles from Concord, and lived there alone for nearly two years. Thoreau himself says : — "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." He wished to be where he could meditate and live a simple life. The hut was ten by fifteen and cost... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 pages
...learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite ex' pectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest...deliberately, to front only the essential facts of file, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that... | |
 | Willard Nelson Clute - 1907 - 496 pages
...hickories were springing up" As to his reasons for taking up his residence here he says in another place, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front onl) the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it has to teach and not, when I... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 pages
...higher aims than the anchorites of old. He we.nl to the woods, as he himself has told us, because he wished " to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermits of the East. But it was only a two-years' sojourn, not a life-visit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 494 pages
...paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. ..._!_ went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...of life, and see if. I could not learn what it had tojeach, and not, when Ijgame tQ...die, discoyej1 that I had jiot lived. I did not wish to live what... | |
 | 1913 - 572 pages
...produced Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and the Phalansteries of Fourier. "I went to the woods," says Thoreau, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...I came to die, discover that I had not lived." "I left the woods," he says later, "for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that... | |
 | William Riley Halstead - 1913 - 348 pages
...of nature's doings. Thoreau tells us why he went to the woods to live: "I went to the woods to live because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, to see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not... | |
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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... 
