 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain...civilized men which belonged to the most respected class ? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Country life - 1889 - 260 pages
...stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain...civilized men which belonged to the most respected class ? When Madame Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world from east to west, had got so near... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...who ap•* proached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief., It is an interesting question how far men would retain...civilized men which belonged to the most respected class ? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain...civilized men, which belonged to the most respected class ? When Madame Pf eifier, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain...civilized men which belonged to the most respected class ? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near... | |
 | Muriel Hine - 1917 - 360 pages
...in, interested. "Thoreau isn't sure there. D'you remember he says —I think it's in 'Walden'—'It is an interesting question how far men would retain...relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.' When I read the passage it made me think of the dear old Hans Andersen story and the Emperor, robed... | |
 | Environmental policy - 1991
...mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation .... "It is an interesting question how far men would retain...relative rank if they were divested of their clothes . ." D Milestones 1817 Born in Concord, Massachusetts, July 12. 1827 Earliest known essay, The Seasons,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...skirts .... The whole world is under petticoat government. GK Chesterton (1874-1936) British author It is an interesting question how far men would retain...relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...Bonar Law I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. — Harry S Truman It is an interesting question how far men would retain...relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Bodies," in Ms. (New York. April 1981; repr. in Outrageous Леи and Everyday Rebellions. 1 983). 24 lf a fool; the truest heroism HENRY DAVID THOREAU [181 7-62), US philosopher, aulhor, naturalist. Waiden, "Economy" (1854). 23 I... | |
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. 
