 ... one house burned or one vessel wrecked or one steamboat blown up or one cow run over on the Western Railroad or one mad dog killed or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with...  Richard Croker - Página 248de Alfred Henry Lewis - 1901 - 372 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1874 - 792 páginas
...twenty years ago. "I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. " " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities." But even this philosopher admits that he read one news.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 páginas
...years ngo. " I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and tliey who edit and read it are old women over their tea." " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 páginas
...of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications ? To a philosopher all...not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival,... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 776 páginas
...greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself. tions? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 páginas
...you are acquainted with the principle, what do you pare for a myriad instances and applications ?_J To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival,... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 páginas
...his head and asks, " What 's the news ? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 páginas
..."What's the news?" as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all vews, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and...their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 páginas
...of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications ? To a philosopher all...not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 páginas
...of another. One is enough; If you are acquainted with the prin/ciple, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications ? 'To a philosopher all...not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival,... | |
 | Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 páginas
...directly anti-novelistic : — "If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications ? To a philosopher all...who edit and read it are old women over their tea." l Compare Carlyle's interpretation of journalism as serving one function of the church in modern society... | |
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