 | 1900 - 874 pages
...and wrote his open-air essays. In the one entitled, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," he says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life; to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to... | |
 | English periodicals - 1900 - 636 pages
...wrote his open-air essays. In the one entitled, " Where I Lived, and What I Lired For," he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...front only the essential facts of life, and see if T could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 518 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 390 pages
...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself : "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two things he cared most about—- observe... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 392 pages
...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself ; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came tc die, discover that I had not lived." He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two things... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 390 pages
...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself : "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came te die, discover that I had not lived. " He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 pages
...the equal certainty of everlasting life.2 HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) I WENT to the woods [1845] because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 642 pages
...surely, for this earnest man was not one to act the fool. " I went to the woods," he acquaints us, " because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...wish to live what was not life, living is so dear. I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life. To live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1902 - 682 pages
...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...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 - English literature - 1902 - 684 pages
...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...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.... | |
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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. 
