 But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and...  Walden - Pagina 29door Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 256 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Carlo Pascal - 1896 - 270 pagina’s
...populi toni dicuntur a lapidibus. làm enim lapides dicuntur» [corr. À«ec]. Ovid., Metam., I, 414 «inde genus durum sumus experiensque laborum, et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. » Gramm. in Gramer, Anecd., I, p. 264: «C Aadf a).).nt napà rnù? A«af tàvofidaftae " laot àeoxat.iaivoz... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pagina’s
...soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust...over their heads behind them : — Inde genus durum smiius, experienaque laborum, Kt documenta damus qu& simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 494 pagina’s
...pushing before it a barn 75 feet by 40 and 100 acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood lot ! It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before." Accordingly; he attempts to show them how to live on nine cents a day. Some have not failed to point... | |
 | Alexander Hume - 1902 - 376 pagina’s
...Flood by the stone-throwing of Deucalion and Pyrrha, he makes no use of the Latin poet's moral — " Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum Et documenta damus, qua simus origine nati." 165. The hels. Jamieson explains the use of the plural as a continuance of the practice of Roman Catholic... | |
 | Andrew (of Wyntoun) - 1914 - 360 pagina’s
...versions of Orosius have "Amphitryon" as in Wyntoun. 522. The two lines from Ovid should read — " Inde genus durum sumus experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati." 530. Wyntoun has already used the same expression in connection with the birth of Venus, I. 1557. 531.... | |
 | Ovid - 1904 - 236 pagina’s
...numine saxa Missa viri manibus faciem traxere virorum, Et de femineo reparata est femina iactu. 250 Inde genus durum sumus experiensque laborum Et documenta damus, qua simus origine nati. Cetera diversis tellus animalia formis Sponte sua peperit, postquam vetus umor ab igne Percaluit solis,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 pagina’s
...soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust...— Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Kt. documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way, — "From... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1910 - 538 pagina’s
...soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust...— Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documents, damns qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way, — "From thence... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 494 pagina’s
...soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust...behind them : — Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque kborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way, —... | |
 | Robert Collyer - 1913 - 358 pagina’s
...The better part of the man is ploughed into the soil for compost. It is a fool's life such men live, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before." And I have thought it would be both pleasant and wholesome to teach this bit of native genius, especially... | |
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