I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence... Walden - Page 211by Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
| Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 238 pages
...Thoreau's answer was a vigorous and decided negative. ' However intense my experience,' he says, ' I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a...note of it ; and that is no more I than it is you.' And this it is that makes of the wild man's life a perpetual wonder. When the sunny lake smiles is... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...sharing no experience, but taking note of it; and tbat is no more I than it is yon. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life u over, the spectator... | |
| Mrs. Campbell Praed - 1898 - 416 pages
...a certain doublcness, by ivhich I can stand as remote from myself as from another. Hoivever intense my experience ^ I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me iuhtch^ as it ivere, /s not a part of mr^ but a spectator , sharing no experience, but taking note... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 540 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play—it may be the tragedy of life — is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...note of it; and that is no more I than it is you. I When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. 1 It was a kind... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 518 pages
...sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, association religion knows nothing ; of all things that may touch her, these are the most contrary... | |
| Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1908 - 288 pages
...sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...of it ; and that is no more I than it is you. When it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It is a kind of fiction, a work... | |
| Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not 3 part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than... | |
| Walter Roy Harding - Biography & Autobiography - 1964 - 138 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play—it may be the tragedy of life—is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction,... | |
| Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner - Education - 1986 - 404 pages
...of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and...spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it. . . ." Anthropologists go to foreign lands so as to become better observers of the other; Thoreau went... | |
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