 ... call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. Some have asked what I got to eat; if I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been...  Walden, Or, Life in the Woods - Page 2by Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 522 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 lehte
...lonesome ; if I was not afraid ; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes ; and some, who have...of these questions in this book. In most books, the 7, or first person, is omitted ; ' in this it will be retained ; that, in respect to egotism, is the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 428 lehte
...lonesome ; if I was not afraid ; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have...of these questions in this book. In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main... | |
 | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1913 - 752 lehte
...Describe the ordering of Arcite's funeral. PKOFESSOB BUDM08E-BB.OWN. 1. Translate into French :— I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel...undertake to answer some of these questions in this hook. In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted ; in this it will be retained ; that, in respect... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 lehte
...Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and seme, he climbed the hill, And saw Maud Muller standing...graceful air Show her wise and good as she is fair. look. In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect... | |
 | Edward Fowler - 2023 - 372 lehte
...essence of writing ... is to prevent any reply to the question: who is speaking? Roland Barthes, S/Z In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained. . . . We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.... | |
 | Leonard N. Neufeldt - 1989 - 229 lehte
...mainly in his response to the charge of impertinence. He states ever so politely and thoughtfully, "I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel...undertake to answer some of these questions in this book" (p. 3). The polite dismissal of certain readers and expectations in a sense justifies the charge of... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 lehte
...lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have...undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. We know the first joke: those questions, and ones like them, are the book. The underlying joke is the... | |
 | Nicholas K. Bromell - 1993 - 300 lehte
...such pains to preserve the air of speech in the artifice of the book he makes. When he says (writes), "I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel...in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of those questions [about his life at Walden Pond] in this book" (p. 3), he again points in two directions... | |
 | Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 lehte
...autobiographical containment avoids hearsay and yields a firm foundation for discourse with other people: In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained. . . . We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.... | |
 | Philip Lambert - 1997 - 332 lehte
...America," 146-68. One is reminded of the famous paraphrase of Rousseau at the beginning of Waiden: "In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained." See Henry David Thoreau, "Waiden," in Thoreau: Waiden and Other Writings, edited and introduced by... | |
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