 | Lucy Tappan - 1896 - 350 pagina’s
...THOREAU. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. NATURALIST, STOIC, SCHOLAR, TRANSCENDENTALIST. EXTRACTS. FROM " WALDEN." I SHOULD not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well. I thiuk that we may safely trust a great deal more than we do. We may waive just so... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pagina’s
...difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were...;anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am conjfined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Morejover, I, on my side, require of every... | |
 | Martha Ferguson McKeown - 1950 - 308 pagina’s
...their history, written in their language, based on life's experiences of one of them. Thoreau said: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." And so, my Uncle Mont becomes a symbol. He is one of the nameless thousands who helped settle America... | |
 | Leon Edel - 1970 - 49 pagina’s
...continuous and carefully documented projection of the self. Walden announces itself autobiography — "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." The book is an idealized and romantic account of Thoreau's sojourn in the woods. Even its beautiful... | |
 | Scott Elledge - 1986 - 420 pagina’s
...him as both, and he may have reminded some of them of Thoreau, who on the first page of Walden said: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. ... I require of every writer, f1rst or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life. As they... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 pagina’s
...admitted: "We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person who is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well." Thoreau would perhaps have agreed with Andre Gide's candid admission: When 1 am not... | |
 | Edward Fowler - 2023 - 372 pagina’s
.... . . We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau, Waldeti Why the preponderance of first-person narration in modern Japanese shosetsu?... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 1992 - 222 pagina’s
...difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. THOREAU, Walden: or, Life in the Woods Essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...Letter, 10 (an. 1936. published in Letters of Wallace Stevens, no. 339 led. by Holly Stevens, 1967). 12 enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-62), US philosopher, author. naturalist. Waiden. "Economy" (1854). StealsoStLFISHNtSS.... | |
 | Scott W. Alexander - 1993 - 148 pagina’s
...nothing other than "the mediation of truth through personality." As Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. " Preachers are called upon to bring their full and authentic selves to the pulpit — both head and... | |
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We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. 
