| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...pride," he said, " in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,...nearest." He did not like the taste of wine, and never had_a vice in his life. He said, — " I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking... | |
| Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 páginas
...make my pride in making my dinner cost little." Once or twice he did accept an invitation to dine, and when asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered "the nearest." Of course such a man was better alone, or with his good Indian, roaming the forest, and communing with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 páginas
...pride," he said, " in making their dinner cost much ; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,...noxious." He chose to be rich by making his wants fewj and supplying them himself. In his travels, he used the railroad only to get over so much country... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 404 páginas
...and opened by hand. I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious. I used to amuse myself with making the yellow, drooping stamens rise and fall by blowing through the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 408 páginas
...and opened by hand. I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious. I used to amuse myself with making the yellow, drooping stamens rise and fall by blowing through the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1884 - 436 páginas
...and opened by hand. I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious. I used to amuse myself with making the yellow, drooping stamens rise and fall by blowing through the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau (Schriftsteller, USA) - 1884 - 406 páginas
...and opened by hand. I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these. I have never smoked anything more noxious. I used to amuse myself with making the yellow, drooping stamens rise and fall by blowing through the... | |
| 1887 - 732 páginas
...that was so common with literary men a century ago, but carried his theories into practical effect. When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered "the nearest," and he was surprised at the anxiety which people usually manifest to have new and unpatched clothes... | |
| Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 páginas
...love, and that the discourse on friendship was in reality an " anodyne to lull his pains." principles. When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered " the nearest," and he was surprised at the anxiety which people usually manifest to have new and unpatched clothes... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 páginas
...pride," he said, "in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,...have never smoked anything more noxious." He chose to Tje rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself. In his travels, he used the railroad... | |
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