Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonThomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips. |
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He was secretary of the college Natural History Society also . Natural History was a noncurricular subject in 1840 , but Higginson found it more fascinating than Greek , even though it could contribute nothing to his battle for first ...
He was secretary of the college Natural History Society also . Natural History was a noncurricular subject in 1840 , but Higginson found it more fascinating than Greek , even though it could contribute nothing to his battle for first ...
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On another occasion during the same period he wrote : Nature is inexorable and satiety follows close on every excess . Concede to any person an influence over us beyond what the time relation justifies and the reaction makes us almost ...
On another occasion during the same period he wrote : Nature is inexorable and satiety follows close on every excess . Concede to any person an influence over us beyond what the time relation justifies and the reaction makes us almost ...
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While he was in South Carolina a collection of his nature essays from the Atlantic had been published in a book under the title Outdoor Papers . It was his first appearance between hard covers as a full - fledged author , and greatly ...
While he was in South Carolina a collection of his nature essays from the Atlantic had been published in a book under the title Outdoor Papers . It was his first appearance between hard covers as a full - fledged author , and greatly ...
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