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Page vii
... track the peregrinations of a mind so keen - nosed and acute , so yeasty , restless , and digressive that the reader has to catch herself from a descent into emotional vertigo . Yet , after the free fall , an uncanny sense of balance ...
... track the peregrinations of a mind so keen - nosed and acute , so yeasty , restless , and digressive that the reader has to catch herself from a descent into emotional vertigo . Yet , after the free fall , an uncanny sense of balance ...
Page viii
... tracks , apparently hoping to be eaten by a bear . Perhaps it was not so much that he wanted to die as to live in the presence of death . How else do we learn to live fully ? His daughter and I conjec- tured that rubbing elbows with a ...
... tracks , apparently hoping to be eaten by a bear . Perhaps it was not so much that he wanted to die as to live in the presence of death . How else do we learn to live fully ? His daughter and I conjec- tured that rubbing elbows with a ...
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... track them down . He loves it all . What better recommendation for an essayist , for a friend ? What sets Hoagland's essays apart is the detail : his ability to give a character great depth with an economy of words , his willingness to ...
... track them down . He loves it all . What better recommendation for an essayist , for a friend ? What sets Hoagland's essays apart is the detail : his ability to give a character great depth with an economy of words , his willingness to ...
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... tracks came and went — or bounded invitingly around while he pulled the eiderdown over his head . Both the Indian tribes and early settlers developed legends of the friendliness of mountain lions to travelers and children which , if ...
... tracks came and went — or bounded invitingly around while he pulled the eiderdown over his head . Both the Indian tribes and early settlers developed legends of the friendliness of mountain lions to travelers and children which , if ...
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... tracks in mud alongside the Bowron River so fresh the water was still trickling into them . Bears are a kind of shadow of man , a tracery or etching of him — as mutes and schizophrenics and idiots sometimes are — a view of him if he'd ...
... tracks in mud alongside the Bowron River so fresh the water was still trickling into them . Bears are a kind of shadow of man , a tracery or etching of him — as mutes and schizophrenics and idiots sometimes are — a view of him if he'd ...
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Page 186 - But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18.
Page 191 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 189 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 188 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 462 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 460 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 185 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Page 443 - ... would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism and perhaps even extinction of the species.
Page 191 - Then the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid...
Page 186 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : but thou shalt utterly destroy them...