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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the ... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...lieve a dream so dear, Some heart beat high that day, Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, ... ...es by, Most travellers cannot at first descry, But eyes that wont to range the evening sky, And know celestial lights, do plainly see, And... ...ure, and it is not yet out. The Chinese are bribed to carry their ova from province to province in jars or in hollow reeds, or the water birds to tran... ...om time to time at such unlucky fish or frog or insect as comes within its range, and swallowing it at a gulp. I have caught one which had swallowed a... ...at the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. Shad are still taken in the basin of Concord River at Lowell, where they are said to be a month earlier... ...oler water, bursting out from under a pine or a rock, was collected into a basin close to the edge of and level with the river, a fountain head of the...

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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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... Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ..., or rather indicates, his fate. Self emancipation even in the West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagina Walden 7 tion what Wilberforce is the... ...rced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.” The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information ... ... glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the northwest, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, and ... ... elevated per haps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated a... ...ht, but to serious reading, than a university; and though I was beyond the range of the ordinary circulating li brary, I had more than ever come with... ...ater within the land not only hori zontally but vertically, and to form a basin or inde pendent pond, the direction of the two capes showing the cou...