...threatens, without attaining these, to become no better than a modern drawing-room, with fts divans, add ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental...myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would ralher ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an...

...ottomans, and sunshades, and a hundred other oriental things, •which we are taking west with ns, invented for the the ladies of harem and the effeminate...have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet coshion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the...

...eulogy rather strongly 1662. NEW ENGLAND FARMER. JAW. expressed by the Walden-Pondist, when he says, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I wouid rather ride on earth in an ox-cart, with a free circulation, than to go to heaven in the fancy...

...the hearthstone. Thoreau wants the freedom of absolute detachment. « I would rather,* he says, « sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. . . . The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at...

...and constantly demanded the utmost freedom and room for the employment of the workings of his mind. " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he said once, and the words tell truly the character and spirit of the man. He never trimmed his opinions...

...and a hundred other oriental things, which we are taking west with us, invented for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial...velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe...

...and constantly demanded the utmost freedom and room for the employment of the workings of his mind. " I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he said once, and the words tell truly the character and spirit of the man. He never trimmed his opinions...

...yourself; for you show me what your idea of manhood is, what kind of man you long to be.—Carlyle. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.— VOLUME 1. NUMBER 8. J\T 'THE n I 1 .v\3 HAWAIIAN MONTHLY. LITERATURE,...

...before the great pyramid was built was not inferior to the best of the present day. EDWARD EVEUETT. I WOULD rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. TWO PICTURES. . old farm-house with meadows wide And sweet with...

...longitudes. Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. You cannot dream yourself into a character : you must hammer and...