Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish... A Cosmic View of Religion - Página 146por William Riley Halstead - 1913 - 337 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| University magazine - 1877 - 810 páginas
...live so sturdily and Spartanlike tis to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce...whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account... | |
| 1877 - 832 páginas
...live so sturdily and Spartanlike ns to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce...lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to gat the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world ; or if it were sublime,... | |
| 1921 - 744 páginas
...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 into a corner, and reduce...meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it." That is, he went into the woods, not because... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 páginas
...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 into a corner, and reduce...meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears... | |
| 1886 - 476 páginas
...principles, what is life and what has it to teach ; and for his answer he went to the woods, there to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness out of it ; ... .or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 páginas
...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 into a corner and reduce...meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Why did he choose... | |
| Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 páginas
...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 into a corner, and reduce...meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden was, in fact,... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...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 into a corner, and reduce...meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." "Able to give a true... | |
| 1903 - 696 páginas
...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...meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." In order to put into... | |
| 1890 - 260 páginas
...seclusion at Walden pond was made in 1845. His purpose was " to front only the essential facts of life. To reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to...meanness to the world, or if it were sublime to know it by experience." It will be observed that the relationship of man to man was an irrelevant factor... | |
| |