 And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or...  Nature Writing: The Tradition in English - Page 447publié par - 2002 - 1152 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 pages
...so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893
...often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. (It we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...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 the principle, what... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 350 pages
...so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care... | |
 | Alfred Henry Lewis - 1901 - 372 pages
...writes in " Walden " thus peevishly: "And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of... | |
 | Alfred Henry Lewis - 1901 - 372 pages
...accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the 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 the principle, what do you care... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1904 - 232 pages
...Pietro Mazzi for the murder of his rival. There is much wisdom iii that observation of Thoreau's : " If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 481 pages
...so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 256 pages
...so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...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... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906
...so often safely offered in jest. And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care... | |
 | Abram Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - 1910 - 374 pages
...newspaper. If. we read of one man robhed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house hurned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on a Western railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need... | |
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