 | John Calvin Metcalf - 1914 - 426 lapas
...the South might be. The entire life of Thoreau is a consistent illustration of his own saying that "a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." In practice he may have had a touch of the Bohemian, but in principle he was a true Puritan. His Works... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 lapas
...seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow perchance, for a man is rich in proportton 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... | |
 | Lewis Herbert Chrisman - 1921 - 196 lapas
...but it is, nevertheless, decidedly unjust. The central thought of the volume is found in the words: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Brander Matthews says Walden is a "most wholesome warning to all those who are willing to let life... | |
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 544 lapas
...from the materialistic idea of life in general ; and the development of one's individual personality. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone," he says. "Live free and uncommitted ; it makes little difference whether you are committed to a farm... | |
 | Louis Edward Bisch - 1923 - 350 lapas
...working for the balance of it, communing with Nature, meditating and writing. As he says in "Waiden": "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Thoreau was a thoroughly self-reliant character, in the sense in which Emerson uses the term in his... | |
 | 1917 - 266 lapas
...for a just man is also a prison. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. There is much of the... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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 all... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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 all... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 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. 10 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. 
