 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious...  God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America - Page xiiby Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 383 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped hut unconscious despair is concealed even under what are...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1893 - 550 pages
...go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1899 - 386 pages
...go into the desperate ^country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...called the games and amusements of mankind . There "- no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate... | |
 | 1902 - 300 pages
...go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and musk-rats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...called the games and amusements of mankind. There ii no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is. concealed...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...console yourself with the bravery of minks and i I* ECONOMY 9 muskfats. Aj>terepty_ped Lbutuncgns_cipus despair is concealed even under what are called the...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Government, Resistance to - 1910 - 482 pages
...you go ;o the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But._it is fja^ characteristic of wisdomjiojjto_iloLuIesp-eraie (-things. When we consider what, to... | |
 | Walter Roy Harding - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 138 pages
...is called resignation is confirmed desperation. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed under what are called the games and amusements of...characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." This is not only Thoreau's most notorious statement; it is also his fundamental charge against his... | |
 | Richard Orr Curry, Lawrence B. Goodheart - History - 1991 - 292 pages
...or his carriage, or import his groceries for him. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed under what are called the games and amusements of...There is no play in them, for this comes after work. 72 Thoreau rejected organized associations of any kind. He attacked not only the idea of majority rule... | |
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