| Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 lehte
...years, two months, and two days. The experiment completed, Thoreau decided it was time to move on. "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there," he wrote. "Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more... | |
| Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 lehte
...up, poaching on our own national domains?" Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods, in A Week, 712. 27. "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
| 92 lehte
...tax in protest of slavery; spends one night in jail. Second trip to Maine. 1847 Leaves Walden Pond. "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spend any more time for... | |
| Victoria Brooks - 2000 - 378 lehte
...it was dismantled for scrap lumber. Describing his departure, Thoreau, as always, writes eloquently: I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
| Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 lehte
...as "Great Looker! Great Expecter! to converse with whom was a New England Night's Entertainment! " I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more for that... | |
| David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 lehte
...welcomed the company of "honest pilgrims who came out to the woods for freedom's sake." He added later, "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there," even for the same reason.28 Yet another part of Thoreau's vision was a dream of a new politics. It... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 326 lehte
...which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
| Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 lehte
...the lessons and the life itself may grow stale with time. He writes in Waldens concluding chapter: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
| Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews - 2005 - 308 lehte
...leaves, their lips besmeared with blackberries, and Cock Robin for their sexton. JOURNAL 1855 OCTOBER 21 I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
| Charles Edward Stuart - 2005 - 202 lehte
...WASHINGTON My Dear Mr. President: On completing his sojourn at Walden pond, Henry David Thoreau noted: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for... | |
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