 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 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... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1902 - 602 pages
...strife. . . . Your senses are quickened ; they Coleridge, Biographia Litcraria, ed. 1847, vol. ip 117. require no stimulants but air and exercise ; in the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust.'2 It is, however, the very exaltation of the desert air which aids in producing the ecstasy.... | |
 | Walking - 1905 - 104 pages
...of it — " Your morale improves ; ^y.ou become -frank and cordial, b"gpjtqbk and ginglp-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... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 516 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 reentering... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Nature - 1914 - 118 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 mere animal existence." They who have been traveling long on the steppes of Tartary say: "On reentering cultivated lands, the... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American essays - 1914 - 542 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 traveling long on the steppes of Tartary say, — " On... | |
 | Philology - 1924 - 998 pages
...hypocritical politeness and the slavery of civilisation are left behind you in the city. Your senses arc quickened: they require no stimulants but air and...excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal exist<ncc. The sharp appetite disposes of the most indigestible food, the sand is softer... | |
 | American essays - 1862 - 884 pages
...Burton says of it,— " Your morale improves ; you become frank and cordial, hospitable and singleminded 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 Tartan- say,—" On... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - Nature - 1990 - 930 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - Nature - 1994 - 148 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... | |
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In the desert, spirituous liquors excite only disgust. There is a keen enjoyment in a mere animal existence. 
