 In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed,...  Outlook and Independent - Page 4061901Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...In the woods, too, a man easts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what i period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual...youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanetity rcign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sces not how he should tire of them... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 390 pages
...fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plants tions of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1884 - 416 pages
...— " ' In the woods a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,... | |
 | Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Alexander Wilson - 1884 - 430 pages
...Emerson's words : " In the woods a man casts off his years as a snake his slough, and what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual...these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, and perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1886 - 366 pages
...follow it long enough, will emerge at last from its labyrinthine dells. ' In the woods,' says Emerson, ' is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God,...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1886 - 628 pages
...equally devout. He sees God in it all. It is to him full of a divine charm. " In the woods," he says, " is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, and we return to reason and faith." " The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods* we_ieturn to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual...sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no... | |
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