 ... search of, the man of men, who could tell them all they should do. His own dealing with them was never affectionate, but superior, didactic; scorning their petty ways; very slowly conceding or not conceding at all the promise of his society at their...  Lectures and Biographical Sketches - Página 359por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 463 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 páginas
...Curious and sometimes distinguished persons, who inquired if he would walk with them, were often put off: "He did not know. There was nothing so important to...walk ; he had no walks to throw away on company." He was intensely American. "In every part of Great Britain," he wrote in his diary, "are discovered... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 páginas
...scorning their ~) , petty ways, — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. " Would...so important to him as his walk ; he had no walks j to throw away on company." Visits were offered him from respectful parties, but he declined them.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 páginas
...didactic, scorning their petty ways, — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. " Would...There was nothing so important to him as his walk ; ho had no walks to throw away on company." Visits were offered him from respectful parties, but he... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 páginas
...didactic, scorning their petty ways, — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. "Would...to carry him at their own cost to the Yellowstone Eiver, — to the West Indies, — to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 páginas
...not scruple to reject unwelcome offers of companionship from intrusive visitors, on the ground that there was nothing so important to him as his walk ; he had no walks to throw away on company. His tendency in his saunterings was ever towards the west, the region of the wild and mysterious, in... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 páginas
...that frankness which was all his own. "Would he 'not walk with them?" some acquaintances would ask. " He did not know ; there was nothing so important to...walk ; he had no walks to throw away on company." But for those who succeeded in gaining this privilege a rare treat was assured. " His powers of conversation,"... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 páginas
...— scorning their petty ways, — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. " Would...to carry him at their own cost to the Yellow-Stone Eiver, — to the West Indies, — to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 páginas
...not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at hia own. "Would he dot walk with them?" "He did not know. There was nothing...to carry him at their own cost to the Yellow-Stone Kiver, — to the West Indies, — to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 páginas
...didactic, scorning their petty ways, — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. " Would...to carry him at their own cost to the Yellowstone River,-r-to the West Indies, — to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered... | |
 | 1905 - 1344 páginas
...didactic, scorning their petty ways — very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses, or even at his own. " Would...walk ; he had no walks to throw away on company." The individualism of the American, his self-reliance, his determination to hold a direct and original... | |
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