 | 1902 - 642 páginas
...ducks, we have " Walden," a treasure, a Koh-i-noor among books. He had lived the words before he said, " Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." And the influence of this elevated and critical life throws its rays in every direction, forms prismatic... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 páginas
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...would distinctly 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 páginas
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Olin Alfred Curtis - 1905 - 568 páginas
...nowhere? Determinism is really a scheme of unfaith, unfaith in man and unfaith in God. PERSONAL MORALITY To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Go, and demand of him, if there be here In this cold abstinence from... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 páginas
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1910 - 538 páginas
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 1912 - 226 páginas
...was thus no chimera, it was a real thing. It was the packing of each moment with the utmost life. " To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts," he said, and that is the essence of his idea. Not the art of getting, or even doing, but of being,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 páginas
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 páginas
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 páginas
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest...would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,... | |
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect... 
