The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes. In Ten Volumes, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue , coeval with the faculties of man , and invented when these were invented . We do not know their John Gutenberg , or Richard Arkwright , though the poets would fain make ...
... ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue , coeval with the faculties of man , and invented when these were invented . We do not know their John Gutenberg , or Richard Arkwright , though the poets would fain make ...
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... ancient fable , of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth . By a faint and dream - like effort , though it be only by the vote of a scientific body , the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus . ¿ As ...
... ancient fable , of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth . By a faint and dream - like effort , though it be only by the vote of a scientific body , the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus . ¿ As ...
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... ancient history and biography . So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense , it contains only enduring and essential truth , the I and you , the here and there , the now and then , being omitted . Either time or rare wis ...
... ancient history and biography . So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense , it contains only enduring and essential truth , the I and you , the here and there , the now and then , being omitted . Either time or rare wis ...
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... ancient custom . After reforming the spelling and grammar , it runs as follows : " Men that traveled with teams on the Sab- bath , December 18 , 1803 , were Jeremiah Rich- ardson and Jonas Parker , both of Shirley . They had teams with ...
... ancient custom . After reforming the spelling and grammar , it runs as follows : " Men that traveled with teams on the Sab- bath , December 18 , 1803 , were Jeremiah Rich- ardson and Jonas Parker , both of Shirley . They had teams with ...
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... ancient Greece , I am most constant at his shrine . It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine , though he bears a divine name , but is the overwhelming authority and ...
... ancient Greece , I am most constant at his shrine . It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine , though he bears a divine name , but is the overwhelming authority and ...
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Página 502 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Página 18 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Página 92 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 160 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Página 460 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 233 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 130 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Página 60 - A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Página 231 - As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
Página 392 - And more to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne. No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t...