I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived 'from idle people who roved about the country,... The Writer - 428. lappuse1926Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 lapas
...one of you will take care of that. I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking...goes a Sainte-Terrer," , a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds;... | |
| 1867 - 978 lapas
...paragraph from the pen of Thoreau, is well worthy a second reading. "Sauntering," he mentions as " beautifully derived from idle people who roved about...country in the Middle Ages, and asked charity under pretence of going a la ' Sainte terre,' to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, ' There goes... | |
| 1879 - 1036 lapas
...Thoreau, with Hawthorne, or with Emerson, and is one of the few persons who, as Thoreau thought, " understood the art of walking, that is, of taking...walks ; who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering" Channing sings of these "Peaceful walks O'er the low valleys, seamed with long-past thrift. And... | |
| 1915 - 846 lapas
...Give me the man that's gone." The Saunterer I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking...middle ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going il la Saint Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Saint-Terre," a Saunterer,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 lapas
...one of you will take care of that. I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking...country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, " There goes a... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 lapas
..."from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going a la Sainte Terre? to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte- Terrer" a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 362 lapas
...about the 1 The god of dreams or sleep. country in the Middle Ages and asking charity, under pretence of going a la Sainte Terre, to the Holy Land, till...' There goes a sainte-terrer!' a saunterer, a Holy Lander. We speak of a ' sardonic ' smile, without reference to a plant growing in Sardinia, which... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 lapas
...about the i The god of dreams or sleep. country in the Middle Ages and asking charity, under pretence of going a la Sainte Terre, to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, ' There goes a saiiite-terrerP a saimterer, a Holy Lander. We speak of a ' sardonic ' smile, without reference... | |
| William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1890 - 346 lapas
... What is the origin of the word ? EVG CAMDEN, NJ Thoreau, " Excursions," p. 161, says that it is from " Idle people who roved about the country, in the middle ages, and asked charity, under the pretense of going ' à la sainte terre ' to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, ' There... | |
| 1891 - 642 lapas
..."I have met," he says, ''but one or two persons who understand the art of walking; who hac1 a genius for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived...roved about the country in the Middle Ages and asked charitv, under pretense of going a la Saintt Tim, a Sainte Terre, a Holy Lander. They who never go... | |
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