 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 into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved...  The North American Review - Seite 4121916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 Seiten
...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 it to its...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 Seiten
...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 it to its...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 Seiten
...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 it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 Seiten
...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 it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its 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... | |
 | 1886 - 476 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 it to its lowest...genuine meanness of it, and publish its 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 Seiten
...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 it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its 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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 Seiten
...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 it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its 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... | |
 | 1903 - 696 Seiten
...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 its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its 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... | |
 | 1890 - 260 Seiten
...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...genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world, or if it were sublime to know it by experience." It will be observed that the relationship of... | |
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