 His father was a manufacturer of lead pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Pagina 2391862Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pagine
...in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of leadpencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft,...congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would not do again what... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 362 pagine
...even to the, extent, says .Mr. Kmerson, of making as good a pencil as the best Knglish ones. k<IIis friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. lint he replied that he should never make another pencil. 4 Why should I ? I would not do again what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pagine
...teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft,...congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never 1 Part of this paper was the Address delivered by Mr. Emerson... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pagine
...teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft,...congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would not do again what... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 pagine
...teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. .His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft,...His friends congratulated him that he had now opened hia way to fortune. But he replied, that he should nevei make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 484 pagine
...In the following summer it was enlarged and printed in the " Atlantic Monthly " in its present form. was then in use. After completing his experiments,...congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would not do again what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pagine
...in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of leadpencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than 1 Fart of this paper was the Address delivered by Mr. Emerson at the funeral of Mr. Thoreau, in May,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pagine
...in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of leadpencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than 1 Part of this paper was the Address delivered by Mr. Emerson at the funeral of Mr. Thoreau, in May,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 472 pagine
...in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of leadpencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than 1 Part of this paper was the Address delivered by Mr. Emerson at the funeral of Mr. Thoreau, in May,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 pagine
...teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft,...congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never make another pencil. " Why should I ? I would not do again what... | |
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