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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. "
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and ... - Seite 233
von Jorge Reina Schement, Terry Curtis - 1995 - 285 Seiten
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Band 8

Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 Seiten
...light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.' Mr Thoreau went to the woods, because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see whether he could learn what it had to teach ; so that when he came to die, he might not discover...
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The Christian Examiner, Band 79

1865 - 476 Seiten
...with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because he " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks...
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The Christian Examiner, Band 79

1865 - 456 Seiten
...with the broad complacent meadow and the placid lapse of streams. He went into the woods, because be " wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." Pan's mysterious piping drew him still deeper into solitude, by the paths of streams and the tracks...
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The Woods and by-ways of New England

Wilson Flagg - 1872 - 550 Seiten
...confusion of cities, but in the solitude of the forest hoped to perpetuate them in his life. He says : " 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...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 814 Seiten
...of training himself for his especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account : — " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I emitl not learn what it bad to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...
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Education, Band 41

1921 - 744 Seiten
...Massachusetts, and retired to the woods to lead the life of a recluse. "I went to the woods," he writes, "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...
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Henry D. Thoreau

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 358 Seiten
...after giving up his hermitage. He, in fact, as he says himself, — " Went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had...
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The Library Magazine, Band 2

1887 - 732 Seiten
...higher aims ! than the anchorites of old. He went to the ' woods, as he himself has told rs, because he wished "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermit of the East. But it was only а two-year»' sojourn, not a life- visit...
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Old Concord, Her Highways and Byways

Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 Seiten
...apace. Why did Thoreau turn from the haunts of men, to a life in the woods? His own words tell us: " 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...
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Literary Sketches

Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 Seiten
...higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went 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 lifevisit,...
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