Henry D. ThoreauHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 324 oldal This is the first book length biography of Thoreau, written by one of his closest friends. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn graduated from Harvard in 1855 and settled in Concord as a schoolteacher, where his pupils included the children of Emerson, Hawthorne, and the elder Henry James. He was also a close friend of Thoreau and the Alcott family. Contents include: Childhood and Youth ? Concord and its Famous People ? The Transcendental Period ? Friends and Companions ? The Walden Hermitage ? Personal Traits and Social Life ? Poet, Moralist, and Philosopher; and more. AMr. Sanborn=s book is thoroughly American and truly fascinating. Its literary skill is exceptionally good, and there is a racy flavor in its pages and an amount of exact knowledge of interesting people that one seldom meets with in current literature. Mr. Sanborn has done Thoreau=s genius an imperishable service. B American Church Review (New York) AMr. Sanborn has written a careful book about a curious man, whom he has studied as impartially as possible; whom he admires warmly but with discretion; and the story of whose life he has told with commendable frankness and simplicity. B New York Mail and Express AIt is undoubtedly the best life of Thoreau extant.B Christian Advocate (New York) |
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... brother , which was not commu- nicated to his mother . She was in the seventy- ninth year of her age , ' he says , ' and retained her memory to the last . She lived with my two sis- ters , who took the greatest care of her . ' He says ...
... brother , which was not commu- nicated to his mother . She was in the seventy- ninth year of her age , ' he says , ' and retained her memory to the last . She lived with my two sis- ters , who took the greatest care of her . ' He says ...
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... year 1796 , aged forty - two years . My sister Elizabeth con- tinued my Father's correspondence with his brother , Uncle Peter Thoreau , at St. Helier , for a number of years after Father's decease , and in BIRTH AND FAMILY . 5.
... year 1796 , aged forty - two years . My sister Elizabeth con- tinued my Father's correspondence with his brother , Uncle Peter Thoreau , at St. Helier , for a number of years after Father's decease , and in BIRTH AND FAMILY . 5.
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... Brother , then the only heir , was lost . ― " It has been said I inherit more of the traits of my foreign ancestry than any of my family , - which pleases me . Probably the vivacity of the French and the superstition of the Scotch may ...
... Brother , then the only heir , was lost . ― " It has been said I inherit more of the traits of my foreign ancestry than any of my family , - which pleases me . Probably the vivacity of the French and the superstition of the Scotch may ...
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... brother , and three sisters . Here are the same fields , the same hills , the same beautiful river , as in the days of my childhood . The human beings which knew them now know them no more . Few are left with whom I shared either toil ...
... brother , and three sisters . Here are the same fields , the same hills , the same beautiful river , as in the days of my childhood . The human beings which knew them now know them no more . Few are left with whom I shared either toil ...
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... brother Charles were living in Concord , or not far off , and there Louisa Dunbar died a few years before Mrs. Thoreau . Her brother Charles , who was two years older than Daniel Webster , was a person widely known in New Hampshire and ...
... brother Charles were living in Concord , or not far off , and there Louisa Dunbar died a few years before Mrs. Thoreau . Her brother Charles , who was two years older than Daniel Webster , was a person widely known in New Hampshire and ...
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296. oldal - Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already." And again: — " I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name, — if ten honest men only, — ay, if one honest man,
324. oldal - Flattered to tears this aged man and poor; But no — already had his death-bell rung, The joys of all his life were said and sung." He died on the 6th of May, 1862, and had a public funeral from the parish church a few days later. On his coffin his friend
297. oldal - if one honest man, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
219. oldal - was not to live cheaply, nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles." He lived a life of labor and study in his hut. Emerson says, " as soon as he had exhausted the advantages of that solitude, he abandoned it.
275. oldal - the time and oft! But mirth is changed to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft. " Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather When He who all commands Shall give, to call life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands. Thus death, who kings
204. oldal - deep value of his mind and great heart. His soul was made for the noblest society; he had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world; whereever there is knowledge, wherever there is virtue, wherever there is beauty, he will find a home.
257. oldal - The same friend said of him: — " It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own. Under his arm he carried an old music-book to press plants
297. oldal - Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." This sounded hollow then, but when that embodiment of
295. oldal - expressed by him early in a prayer which he threw into this verse : — " Great God ! I ask Thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself ; That in my conduct I may soar as high As I
256. oldal - He knew how to sit immovable, a part of the rock he rested on, until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits, — nay, moved by curiosity, should come to him and watch him.