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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The P... ...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanit... ...own, the big guns sounded as if a puffball had burst; and when there was a military turnout of which I was ig norant, I have sometimes had a vague se... ...leav ing the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which put... ...den all over and all through; are them selves small Waldens in the animal kingdom, Waldenses. It is surprising that they are caught here that in thi... ...nd is among the forms which art loves to copy, and which, in the vegetable kingdom, have the same relation to types already in the mind of man that as...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrar...

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