We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Walden - Page 345by Henry David Thoreau - 1882Full view - About this book
| Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - American literature - 1905 - 508 pages
...Dearborn St. Chicago, IU. Thoreau says, " Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to this god he worships, after a style" purely his own, nor...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Is your body a temple, a shanty, or a stable ? Nursing Mothers maintain their normal Health and Vigor... | |
| 1919 - 966 pages
...temple, Them to a headlong rage, and made them ю called his body, to the god he worships, worse.' after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We All sensuality is one. though it takes are all sculptors and painters, and our many forms; all purity... | |
| City missions - 1898 - 774 pages
...generous check with a note simply saying that the gift was for the "Summer children." Thoreau says: "We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them." And in the same line of thought Thackeray... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 148 pages
...are but various fruits which succeed it. Walden, "Higher Laws" Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Walden, "Higher Laws" Virtue Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. Journal,... | |
| Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...that day dawns to which we are awake. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body. . . . We are all sculptors and painters, and our material...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. Be not simply good; be good for something. In the long run, men hit onlv what they aim at. Therefore... | |
| Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 178 pages
...by a like and unconscious beauty of life, (i, 67) And later: Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them, (xi, 14) Here are the elements of Walden's solution to the problem of self-consciousness, or the sense... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...psychiatrist. The Second Sin, -Control and Self-Conlrol" (1973). 35 Every man is the builder of a temple, HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-62), US philosopher, aulhor, naturalist. Wallten, "Higher Laws" (1 854).... | |
| Arthur Versluis - Religion - 1993 - 364 pages
...elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself. Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.196 This passage has been quoted at such length because in it Walden is shown to be a religious... | |
| L. Rust Hills - Fiction - 1993 - 276 pages
...exceptional, almost inhuman, vitality. Thoreau kept in shape: Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the God he worships, after a style purely his own . . . We are all sculptors . . . and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness... | |
| Joan Burbick - History - 1994 - 368 pages
...Alcott, Thoreau insists upon the self-construction of the body:27 Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style...features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. (W, 221) Individual human agency must shape the body along the lines of the clean and unclean, the... | |
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