 The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as...  The Maine Woods - Pagina 65door Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 328 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains...angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn. Henry D. FOR PREPARATION. — I. Find, on the map of Maine, Ktaadn (usually spelled Ka-tah'-din). Have... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1880 - 250 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains...always angry with those who climb to the summit of Katahdin. " According to Jackson, who, in his capacity of geological surveyor of the State, has accurately... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1884 - 252 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains...always angry with those who climb to the summit of Katahdin. " According to Jackson, who, in his capacity of geological surveyor of the State, has accurately... | |
 | 1886 - 528 pagina’s
...pry into their secrets and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains; their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts ncver visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn. . . . Perhaps... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,...accurately measured it, — the altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 feet, or a little more than one mile above the level of the sea, —and he adds, "It is then evidently... | |
 | 1928 - 710 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains...sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pamela, [the Indian avenging spirit of Ktaadn], is always angry with those who climb to the summit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1894 - 460 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,...them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb totEe summit of Ktaadn. According to Jackson, who, in his capacity of geological surveyor of the State,... | |
 | Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald - 1901 - 428 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,...angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn." Two of our party (Fernald and Collins) decided to risk further the anger of Pomola by scaling the narrow... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains...angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn. Henry D. Thoreom. FOR PREPARATION. — I. Find, on the map of Maine, Ka-tah'-din (here spelled Ktaadn).... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 598 pagina’s
...into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,...accurately measured it, the altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 feet, or a little more than one mile above the level of the sea, and he adds, " It is then evidently... | |
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