Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Walden - Página 23de Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 357 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...the world is not mirth, but art ; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise S<>nih, n flesh helps soul. Bnyivntng. All good things go...AU governments are to some extent a treaty with the Thortau, Most of the mischief in the world would ne ver 30 happen if men would only be content to sit... | |
| 1899 - 704 páginas
...wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise ^ '-.:':. Most of the luxuries, and many ot the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable,...positive hindrances, to the elevation of mankind. Tlutreau. Most of the mischief in the world would never 31 happen if men would only be content to sit... | |
| 1902 - 642 páginas
...benumber of virtue. " Most of the luxuries," he says, "and many of the so-called comforts of life, arc not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances...lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor." He made his shelter with his own hands : put into it good work and true, so that it was, what it was... | |
| 1906 - 794 páginas
...assistance to the British fleet in the Pei-ho.) THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. II, 300. Most of the luxuries and manv of the so-called comforts of life are not only not...philosophers — Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek — were я class than whom none has been poorer' in outward riches, none so rich in inward. We know not much... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 páginas
...simply kept comfortably warm, but unnaturally hot; as I implied before, they are rooked, of course h la mode. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispens.il )le, but pc hindrances to the elevation of mankiiui^^With res;, -ct to luxuries and comforts,... | |
| 1909 - 918 páginas
...I think we need an environmental ethic and I think we need to recall what Thoreau wrote in Waldon, ''Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." The question is: Do we want phosphates... | |
| Annette Fitch Brewer - 1913 - 404 páginas
...need for his book in 1 854 how much greater is that need to-day ! Listen to some of his sentences: " Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts...but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. I have in my mind that exceedingly wealthy but most terribly impoverished class of all who have accumulated... | |
| John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 páginas
...pale his light. Tbid. She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart. Ibid. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts...but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Walden. It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising; but, doubt not, it was of the... | |
| Franklin Pierce Adams - 1922 - 140 páginas
...Thoreau's? If we were an advertiser, we'd cancel our contract with any magazine that reprinted Thoreau's "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind?" AT THE savings bank hangs a picture... | |
| George Hamlin Fitch - 1924 - 200 páginas
...recreation for mind or body. Thoreau summed this up in "Walden" in these truthful words of warning: "Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts,... | |
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