 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1906 - 898 lapas
...school. II I "He who praises himself releases every other person from the obligation to praise him." "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Name the relative clauses in the preceding sentences. 2 Show by means of sentences the difference between... | |
 | 1907 - 1178 lapas
...shown by statistics, in the world. But Thoreau again comes to the rescue with his ideal sentiment: " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Few American bootblacks are as balanced in ambitions and self-poised as the English lad who refused... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1907 - 282 lapas
...his time to any profession. To be free, to read, and to live with nature, — that was happiness. " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," declared this philosopher of the wilderness. The few things that he could not "let alone," he supplied... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 lapas
...— by limiting one's desires to those things which are really necessary ; in Thoreau's own words, " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." It is habit only which makes us regard as necessary a great part of the equipments of civilized life,... | |
 | 1907 - 900 lapas
...shown by statistics, in the world. But Thoreau again comes to the rescue with his ideal sentiment: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Few American bootblacks are as balanced in ambitions and self-poised as the English lad who refused... | |
 | George W. Rine - 1908 - 324 lapas
...Parliament in my pocket 21. Lincoln who had been chosen president went to Washington to be inaugurated. 22. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 23. In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there's no such word as fail.... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1909 - 464 lapas
...mind, occasional day labor, which one can do and have done with, is the best way of getting a living. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." "It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail."* The thoroughgoing... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1909 - 452 lapas
...mind, occasional day labor, which one can do and have done with, is the best way of getting a living. " A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." "It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail."* The thoroughgoing... | |
 | 1910 - 520 lapas
...implied in these facts was the most prominent characteristic of this remarkable person. Holding that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," he found that a small part of his time, devoted to making lead-pencils, carpentering, and surveying,... | |
 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 lapas
...each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage ; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. My imagination carried me so far that I even had the refusal of several farms, — the refusal was... | |
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I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. 
