 He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain. He could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye; he...  Highways And Byways Of New England - Page 28by Clifton Johnson - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...should bloom that day, whereof he kept account as a banker does when his notes are due.' 'He could pace rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain. He could find his way in the woods at night better by his feet than by his eyes. He knew every 1 874HENRY THOREAU, THE... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1874 - 764 pages
...that day, whereof he kept account as a banker does when his notes are due.' . . . . ' He could pace rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain. He could find his way in the woods at night better by his feet than by his eyes. He knew every track in the snow and... | |
 | 1886 - 500 pages
...one of the best, so that Emerson, speaking of the wonderful fitness of his body and mind, says, '' He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain," and that he was held in the highest regard for his practical knowledge about lands and boundaries.... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Authors, American - 1882 - 358 pages
...perceptions and his familiarity with all that goes forward, or stands still, in wood and field. Thoreau could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes. " He was a good swimmer," says Emerson, " a good runner, skater, boatman, and would outwalk most countrymen... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 472 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American prose literature - 1883 - 404 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...better by his feet than his eyes. He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eye ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind. He could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another...night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes. Pie could estimate the measure of a tree very well hy his eye ; he could estimate the weight of a calf... | |
| |
