The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, further still, between him and it. Let... A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Page 327by Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...narrow, and others live broad and short;" but it is all superficial living. A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser Settler....build himself a log-house with the bark on where he {^fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...narrow, and others live broad and short;" but it is all superficial living. A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler....wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be bis neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 510 pages
...narrow, and others live broad and short;" but it is all superficial living. A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler....still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or... | |
| American literature - 1921 - 430 pages
...influence in life. It presents sex as an absorbing anomaly. — f . T. THE FRONTIER A Literary Magazine "The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. "-THOREA U. VOLUME IV 1923-1924 MISSOULA, MONTANA Published at the State University of Montana by HG... | |
| Harold Guy Merriam - American literature - 1928 - 410 pages
...Frontier will be off the press on April 20 A MAGAZINE OF THE NORTHWEST "The frontiers are not eatt or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact." — THOBRAU. Homesteaders' Trail By Mary Hesse Hartwick AT NOON, the third day out, the mail sled from... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 1975 - 636 pages
...while recrossing the river, and arrived at Haverhill about midnight. The crank of the first grist-mill was manufactured in Haverhill. and carried to Penacook...him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, further still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log-house with the bark on where he is,... | |
| Grace Muilenburg, Ada Swineford - History - 1975 - 236 pages
...gravity, and meandering streams has produced the landscapes of today. Scene in southern Mitchell County. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. Cook house, northwestern Lincoln Couniv. Little I ask; my wants are few, I only wish a hut of stone,... | |
| United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford) - Presidents - 1975 - 1216 pages
...enemies, such as cancer and heart disease. As Thoreau reminded us, long before the age of air and space, "The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever man fronts a fact." The American adventure is driven forward by challenge, competition, and creativity.... | |
| Lucy Maddox - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 211 pages
...to go as far as Fuller or Parkman did to do his reconnoitering. "The frontiers," he wrote in A Week, "are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. . . . " 18 Given this definition, then, Thoreau—that is, the Thoreau who is the "I" of his texts—is... | |
| Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...242-43), yet still, here too, one must front the evil and death brought into the world by Adam's fall: We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by...him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, further still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log-house with the bark on where he is,... | |
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