In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveller, and, to some extent, a man of the world... The Maine Woods - Pagina 21door Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 328 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1848 - 668 pagina’s
...shrewdness, and a general intelligence which I had not looked for in the hackwoods. In fact, the deeper yon penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less conntrified do yon find the inhahitants; for always the pioneer has heen a traveller, and, to some... | |
| Caroline C. Leighton - 1883 - 298 pagina’s
...fortune in the dust at his feet. I am often reminded of Thoreau's experience in the Maine woods. He says, "The deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more...are greater, so is his information more general and far-reaching." MAT 30, 1869. The gulls and crows give parties to each other on the sand, at low-tide.... | |
| Caroline C. Leighton - 1884 - 290 pagina’s
...fortune in the dust at his feet. I am often reminded of Thoreau's experience in the Maine woods. He says, "The deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more'...are greater, so is his information more general and far-reaching." MAY 30, 1869. The gulls and crows give parties to each other on the sand, at low-tide.... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...who had been a waterman twenty-two years, and had driven on the lakes and headwaters of the Penobscot five or six springs in succession, but was now settled...the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world; and, as the distances with which he is familiar... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1894 - 460 pagina’s
...who had been a waterman twenty-two years, and had driven on the lakes and headwaters of the Penobseot five or six springs in succession, but was now settled...the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world; and, as the distances with which he is familiar... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 598 pagina’s
...a dry wit and shrewdness, and a general intelligence which I had not looked for in the back woods. In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods,...the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world ; and, as the distances with which he is familiar... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1909 - 128 pagina’s
...McCauslin had been a waterman twenty-two years, and had driven on the lakes and headwaters of the Penobscot five or six springs in succession, but was now settled...the inhabitants ; for always the pioneer has been a traveler, and, to some extent, a man of the world ; and, as the distances with which he is familiar... | |
| John Gould - 1995 - 204 pagina’s
...General Washington's privates. , GENTLEMEN! A man of dry wit and shrewdness, and a general intelligence I had not looked for in the backwoods. In fact, the...the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, the less countrified do you find the inhabitants. . . . — Thoreau, at the mouth of Little Schoodic,... | |
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