A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversCosimo, Inc., 01/01/2009 - 268 páginas Hero to environmentalists and ecologists, and a profound thinker on humanity's happiness, Henry David Thoreau was one of the strongest shapers of the American character in the 19th century. This 1849 book, written while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond, is ostensibly a travel book, written to commemorate an 1839 river journey he took with his brother, John, from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. But the trip is only the framework upon which Thoreau hangs some of his most provocative thoughts on poetry, history, religion, dreams, and the passing of a slower way of life with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the evidence of which he witnessed from the rivers. While not Thoreau's best-known work, *A Week* may be his most important, a beautifully determined attempt to understand the past and reconcile it with the future that continues to move readers today. Writer and philosopher HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. His writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world rank him among the most influential thinkers of American literature. |
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... friends . Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current , which is scarcely perceptible , and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord , as exhibited in the Revolution ...
... friends . Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current , which is scarcely perceptible , and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord , as exhibited in the Revolution ...
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... friends stood upon a promontory lower down the stream to wave us a last farewell ; but we , having already performed these shore rites with excusable reserve , as befits those who are embarked on unusual enterprises , who behold but ...
... friends stood upon a promontory lower down the stream to wave us a last farewell ; but we , having already performed these shore rites with excusable reserve , as befits those who are embarked on unusual enterprises , who behold but ...
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... friends behind of the locality of this somewhat rare and inaccessible flower before it was too late to pluck it ; but ... friend would be reaching to pluck this blossom on the bank of the Concord . After a pause at Ball's Hill , the St ...
... friends behind of the locality of this somewhat rare and inaccessible flower before it was too late to pluck it ; but ... friend would be reaching to pluck this blossom on the bank of the Concord . After a pause at Ball's Hill , the St ...
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... friends . and we The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood . The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men . This man is still a ...
... friends . and we The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood . The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men . This man is still a ...
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... friend are you that speak of God's personality ? Do you , Miles Howard , think that he has made you his confidant ? Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon , or of the diameter of space , and I may believe you , but of the ...
... friend are you that speak of God's personality ? Do you , Miles Howard , think that he has made you his confidant ? Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon , or of the diameter of space , and I may believe you , but of the ...
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