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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... lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 3.
... lend ; To the ocean wealth , To the meadow health , To Time his length , To the rocks strength , To the stars light , To the weary night , To the busy day , To the idle play ; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 3.
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... length about fifty miles ; a huge volume of matter , ceaselessly rolling through the plains and valleys of the substantial earth , with the moccasined tread of an Indian warrior , making haste from the high places of the earth to its ...
... length about fifty miles ; a huge volume of matter , ceaselessly rolling through the plains and valleys of the substantial earth , with the moccasined tread of an Indian warrior , making haste from the high places of the earth to its ...
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... length accom- pany their currents to the lowlands of the globe , or explore at their invi- tation the interior of continents . They are the natural highways of all nations , not only levelling the ground , and removing obstacles from ...
... length accom- pany their currents to the lowlands of the globe , or explore at their invi- tation the interior of continents . They are the natural highways of all nations , not only levelling the ground , and removing obstacles from ...
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... LENGTH , on Saturday , the last day of August , 1839 , we two , brothers , and natives of Concord , weighed anchor in this river port ; for Concord , too , lies under the sun , a port of entry and departure for the bodies as well as the ...
... LENGTH , on Saturday , the last day of August , 1839 , we two , brothers , and natives of Concord , weighed anchor in this river port ; for Concord , too , lies under the sun , a port of entry and departure for the bodies as well as the ...
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... length we had swept out of sight , and thus left the woods to ring again with their echoes ; and it may be many russet - clad children lurking in those broad meadows , with the bittern and the woodcock and the rail , though wholly ...
... length we had swept out of sight , and thus left the woods to ring again with their echoes ; and it may be many russet - clad children lurking in those broad meadows , with the bittern and the woodcock and the rail , though wholly ...
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