 Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish...  Against the Protestant Gnostics - Page 120by Philip J. Lee - 1993 - 368 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...it proved to be mean, why then to gat the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are ia a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the...experience, and be able to give a true account of it." That is, he went into the woods, not because he wished to avoid his fellow men as a misanthrope, but... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty f nn -is of the devil or of... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1886 - 476 pages
...answer he went to the woods, there to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness out of it ; ... .or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account... | |
 | Margaret Sidney - Concord (Mass.) - 1888 - 120 pages
...to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why, then to get the...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Why did he choose Wai den for the scene of his voluntary isolation ? Hear him : " Why,... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 pages
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." "Able to give a true account of it in my next excursion" — that journey made with closed... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 336 pages
...cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden was, in fact, to Thoreau what Brook y Farm was to others of the transcendentalists... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...to cut a broad swath and cut close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." In order to put into effect to the utmost these ideals and purposes he did about everything... | |
 | Natural history - 1890 - 260 pages
...1845. His purpose was " to front only the essential facts of life. To reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole...world, or if it were sublime to know it by experience." It will be observed that the relationship of man to man was an irrelevant factor in forming a true... | |
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