 If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, —...  The Study of a Novel - Page 229by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1874 - 792 pages
...twenty years ago. "I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. " " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities." But even this philosopher admits that he read one news.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 pages
...years ngo. " I am sure," says he in Walden, " that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and tliey who edit and read it are old women over their tea." " Read not the Times ; read the Eternities."... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | 1983 - 1082 pages
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 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 pages
...greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself. tions? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...you are acquainted with the principle, what do you pare for a myriad instances and applications ?_J To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pages
...winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with Old Marlborough Road the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 pages
...his head and asks, " What 's the news ? " as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip,...who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 pages
..."What's the news?" as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. . . . To a philosopher all vews, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. . . . If we respected only what is inevitable and has a... | |
 | Alfred Henry Lewis - 1901 - 434 pages
...killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter — we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a million instances and applications? To a philosopher all 'news,' as it is called, is gossip; and they... | |
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