 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...says of it : "Your morale improves; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and single-minded. ... In the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence." They who have been traveling long on the steppes of Tartary say: " On reentering... | |
 | American periodicals - 1855 - 594 pages
...cordial, hospitable and single-minded ; the hypocritical politeness and the slavery of civiliza'tion are left behind you in the city. Your senses are quickened...excite only disgust.* There is a keen enjoyment in a mere ani.-nal existence. The sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food, the sand is softer... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1855 - 424 pages
...vegetable mould, bind the particles together, and fit it for the reception of seed. the Wady El Ward (the Vale of Flowers) be the name of some stern flat...excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence. The sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food, the sand is softer... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 458 pages
...idea of an Arabian Oasis, fertility — how soft nnd how beautiful! — even though the Wady El Ward (the Vale of Flowers) be the name of some stern flat...sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food, the sand is softer than a bed of down, and the purity of the air suddenly puts to flight a dire cohort... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...energies Q{ your soul— whether for exertion, danger, or strife. Your morale improves : you become frunk and cordial, hospitable and single-minded : the hypocritical...the Desert spirituous liquors excite only disgust 1 Nothing can be more incorrect than the vulgar idea of an Arabian Oasis, except it be the popular... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - American literature - 1883 - 336 pages
...of it, — " Your morale improves; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and single-minded. . . . In the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence." They who have been travelling long on the steppes of Tartary say,— " On... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - American literature - 1883 - 328 pages
...it, — " Your morale improves; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and single-minded. . . . Jn the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence." They who have been travelling long on the steppes of Tartary say, — " On... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - Authors, English - 1887 - 478 pages
...oases, and little lines of fertility — how soft and how beautiful ! — even though the Wady-elWard (the Vale of Flowers) be the name of some stern flat...sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food ; the sand is softer than a bed of down, and the purity of the air suddenly puts to flight a dire cohort... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Conduct of life - 1901 - 324 pages
...of it — ' Your moraie improves ; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and single-minded. ... In the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence." They who have been travelling long on the steppes ol Tartary say — " On... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - Adventure and adventurers - 1893 - 670 pages
...cordial, hospitable and single-minded ; the hypocritical politeness and the slavery of Civilization are left behind you in the City. Your senses are quickened...sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food ; the sand is softer than a bed of down, and the purity of the air suddenly puts to flight a dire cohort... | |
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In the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence. 
