 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.  The Dublin university magazine - 608 psl.autoriai: University magazine - 1877Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 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 psl.
...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 causes conspired with his native temperament to make solitude peculiarly congenial to him.... | |
 | 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 psl.
...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 causes conspired with his native temperament to make solitude peculiarly congenial to him.... | |
 | 1903 - 1046 psl.
...pp. 98, 99, in David Douglas's Edinburgh edition, 1SS4. front only the essential facts of life. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 psl.
...live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that...marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, and to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 468 psl.
...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, however, we care much less for what Walden tries to prove than for what its author heard... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 psl.
...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 wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation,... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - 1905 - 348 psl.
...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." 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 - 418 psl.
...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...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 into a... | |
 | Arnold Smith - 1907 - 232 psl.
...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...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 into a... | |
 | Willard Nelson Clute - 1907 - 496 psl.
...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 came to die, discover that I had not lived." After he abandoned his house it was taken by a Scotch gardener who moved it some rods away into Thoreau's... | |
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