 Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the...  Nature Writing: The Tradition in English - Page 192publié par - 2002 - 1152 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor vitae in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 319 pages
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor vitae in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 319 pages
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...were. I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and iu the night in which the corn grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor vitffi in our... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 271 pages
...their nourishment and vigour from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlockspruce or arbor-viUe in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor vitae in our tea. There is a difference between ideating and drinking for strength and from mere... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 472 pages
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the northern _, forests who were. I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn... | |
 | 1905 - 89 pages
... IN PRAISE OF WALKING " / believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows." THOREAU. ' ' One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a wurney." HAZLITT. " A foot and in... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906
...nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source,. /'••Q '•* It was. because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...in which the corn grows. We require an infusion of hemlock spruce or arbor-vita^ in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength... | |
 | 1910 - 485 pages
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor-vitac in our tea. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere... | |
 | Ritter Brown - 1911 - 307 pages
...drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It is because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered...grows. We require an infusion of hemlock-spruce or arbor-vitas in our tea." " Man," says Alexander von Humboldt, " is a product of soil and climate, and... | |
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