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1 51| kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, 2 10| saw an advertisement for able-bodied seamen, when I was a boy, 3 42| chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only to prick 4 | above 5 7| sluggards and idlers - pausing abreast the shoulders of his oxen, 6 7| from a window, and was not abroad and stirring about a similar 7 26| is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit 8 46| settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English 9 20| forgotten it, I was thinking, accidentally, of my own unsatisfactory 10 8| not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed 11 | according 12 1| assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a 13 23| for, according to late accounts, an act has passed its second 14 8| that he was already too accurate for them, and therefore 15 29| subtilest truth? I often accuse my finest acquaintances 16 29| I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; 17 1| make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool. Commonly, 18 42| and serve the Devil? - to acquire a little worldly wealth, 19 1| is only to know how many acres I make of their land - since 20 23| according to late accounts, an act has passed its second reading 21 7| worthier toil than this. I may add that his employer has since 22 17| and is the last and most admirable invention of the human race 23 15| those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them 24 7| whimsical structure intended to adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter' 25 10| tell the truth, I saw an advertisement for able-bodied seamen, 26 10| their present pursuit. I see advertisements for active young men, as 27 15| which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.~ ~ 28 40| details of some trivial affair - the news of the street; 29 12| Those slight labors which afford me a livelihood, and by 30 33| surface of our minds, which affords a basis for them, and hence 31 12| sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear 32 21| this for more than geologic ages been bringing down the shining 33 45| commerce and manufactures and agriculture and the like, which are 34 16| indifference, or by assuming grand airs? or find it easier to live, 35 52| a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, 36 12| livelihood, and by which it is allowed that I am to some extent 37 | alone 38 28| liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with 39 | always 40 49| government sent to explore the Amazon, and, it is said, to extend 41 26| bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only 42 | among 43 33| We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a 44 5| foreign governments, however amusing it may be to him or them, 45 25| is but one of the devil's angels. As we grow old, we live 46 14| though at a very slight angle to the horizon. I should 47 40| bar-room of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust 48 40| hands and faces, it has appeared to my mind's eye, that, 49 23| Darien, an enterprise which appears to be but in its infancy; 50 14| say, "Greatness doth not approach him who is forever looking 51 18| same in God's coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and 52 49| it is said, to extend the area of slavery, observed that 53 46| more important question arises for them to settle, the 54 | around 55 7| once more a patron of the arts.~ ~ 56 36| And they become ashes before me;-~ ~ 57 8| surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the 58 41| stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into 59 25| reminiscent smile, betwixt an aspiration and a shudder, not to be 60 1| such as the audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, 61 16| merely by indifference, or by assuming grand airs? or find it easier 62 40| of the street; and I am astonished to observe how willing men 63 27| the funeral of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. 64 41| comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of 65 17| California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, 66 40| compelled to sit spectator and auditor in a court-room for some 67 16| easier to live, because his aunt remembered him in her will? 68 21| Is not our native soil auriferous? Does not a stream from 69 20| Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening, 70 15| money teaches, which the Author of the Universe has taken 71 46| Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine 72 34| summer, and far into the autumn, perchance, you unconsciously 73 52| vegetation. I sometimes awake to a half-consciousness 74 4| an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the 75 46| manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted 76 23| necessary; a pick, shovel, and axe of good material will be 77 7| hewn stone swung under the axle, surrounded by an atmosphere 78 7| and then in throwing them back, merely that they might 79 13| Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall 80 23| Toro one; bring no useless baggage, and do not cumber yourself 81 6| those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed 82 7| consecrated; one of the sacred band, doing the needful but irksome 83 30| truth. They were merely banded together, as usual one leaning 84 5| who is going to build a bank-wall under the hill along the 85 12| standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.~ ~ 86 29| underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; 87 49| country" that fertility or barrenness of soil which produces these. 88 33| our minds, which affords a basis for them, and hence a parasitic 89 43| be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; 90 10| half-way across the ocean beating up against the wind, but 91 22| diggings in Australia: "He soon began to drink; got a horse, and 92 51| importunate than an Italian beggar; and if I have a mind to 93 7| industry - his day's work begun - his brow commenced to 94 46| claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature. 95 | below 96 51| made, perchance, by some benevolent merchant's clerk, or the 97 46| Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more 98 25| gracious, reminiscent smile, betwixt an aspiration and a shudder, 99 51| his duty, is completely bewildered. The newspapers are the 100 17| the precepts in all the Bibles taught men only this? and 101 11| inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting 102 26| The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid 103 28| if I had read to them the biography of the greatest scamps in 104 12| shall never thus sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. I 105 39| over hill and dale, and biting each other's ears.~ ~ 106 48| to the Old World for her bitters! Is not the sea-brine, is 107 4| work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they 108 23| tent; but a good pair of blankets will be necessary; a pick, 109 48| philosophers who are so blind as to think that progress 110 41| surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have 111 22| informed them that he was 'the bloody wretch that had found the 112 33| corner to see the world blow up.~ ~ 113 12| There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the 114 51| any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much. 115 5| perhaps get some more money to board, and leave for his heirs 116 44| to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, 117 48| to a great extent, is our boasted commerce; and there are 118 23| route in preference to the Boca del Toro one; bring no useless 119 44| ourselves. We quarter our gross bodies on our poor souls, till 120 12| steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. 121 5| There is a coarse and boisterous money-making fellow in the 122 1| shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.~ ~ 123 8| tried to introduce it in Boston; but the measurer there 124 10| up against the wind, but bound nowhere, and proposed to 125 10| able-bodied seamen, when I was a boy, sauntering in my native 126 20| uncertain where they shall break ground - not knowing but 127 28| my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have 128 13| provided you continue to breathe - by whatever fine synonyms 129 46| true gentleman that ever breathed." I repeat that in this 130 24| the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.~ ~ 131 11| The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. 132 8| accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and 133 42| trot or walk, over that bride of glorious span by which 134 8| Charlestown before crossing the bridge.~ ~ 135 23| to the Boca del Toro one; bring no useless baggage, and 136 21| than geologic ages been bringing down the shining particles 137 42| at last from the farthest brink of time to the nearest shore 138 41| it were - its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels 139 41| that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, 140 7| his day's work begun - his brow commenced to sweat - a reproach 141 29| honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and 142 33| the sidewalk. Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the 143 46| provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, 144 1| what trivial news I have burdened myself with. They never 145 23| have been taken from the "Burker's Guide." And he concludes 146 42| institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, 147 25| not ask how your bread is buttered; it will make you sick, 148 19| into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly 149 46| on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished 150 4| it for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed 151 44| Do we call this the land of the free? 152 37| Calm is my dwelling in the clouds;~ ~ 153 20| the gold is under their camp itself - sometimes digging 154 43| quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state 155 10| the whole of a young man's capital. Yet I have been surprised 156 23| line in Italics and small capitals: "If you are doing well 157 22| in these names? Let them carry their ill-gotten wealth 158 46| the character; they are cast-off-clothes or shells, claiming the 159 51| almshouse; or why not keep its castle in silence, as I do commonly? 160 13| than his income. In the Catholic Church, especially, they 161 44| troops, we quarter fools and cattle of all sorts upon ourselves. 162 40| vanes of windmills, they caught the broad but shallow stream 163 25| disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. 164 31| meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, 165 8| would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. 166 1| in this sense, no truly central or centralizing thought 167 1| sense, no truly central or centralizing thought in the lecture. 168 4| commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing me 169 47| children in the Nineteenth Century? is it a family which is 170 52| have been conscious of, certainly not in our waking hours. 171 34| Massachusetts fields. If you chance to live and move and have 172 30| about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was! - 173 51| politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, 174 43| see, as the Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA 175 13| To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government 176 8| got their wood measured in Charlestown before crossing the bridge.~ ~ 177 40| important to preserve the mind's chastity in this respect. Think of 178 8| employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you 179 8| pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself. If you would get 180 19| honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there 181 42| institutions be like those chestnut burs which contain abortive 182 26| D.D.'s. I would it were the chickadee-dees.~ ~ 183 49| which produces these. The chief want, in every State that 184 34| Tartars, and Huns, and Chinamen! Like insects, they swarm. 185 5| hard-working man; but if I choose to devote myself to certain 186 1| felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, 187 46| that the poet Decker called Christ "the first true gentleman 188 46| the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority 189 6| industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest 190 48| think that progress and civilization depend on precisely this 191 46| cast-off-clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged 192 22| But he is a type of the class. They are all fast men. 193 15| how indifferent men of all classes are about it, even reformers, 194 20| and covered with mud and clay, they work night and day, 195 51| some benevolent merchant's clerk, or the skipper that brought 196 1| I found that he and his clique expected seven eighths of 197 20| a dozen feet across, as close as they can be dug, and 198 41| shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind 199 5| There is a coarse and boisterous money-making 200 28| out of the way with your cobwebs; wash your windows, I say! 201 29| the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the 202 18| facsimile of the same in God's coffers, and appropriated it, and 203 40| titillating gyrations in their coggy brains, passed out the other 204 15| undone what she has done. Cold and hunger seem more friendly 205 41| inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive 206 49| population, who know what the comforts of life are, and who have 207 17| such company. If I could command the wealth of all the worlds 208 17| and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less 209 7| s work begun - his brow commenced to sweat - a reproach to 210 5| If I do this, most will commend me as an industrious and 211 41| is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the 212 17| would be ashamed of such company. If I could command the 213 14| As for the comparative demand which men make on 214 51| What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial 215 19| laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not 216 51| s door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take 217 10| do, my life having been a complete failure hitherto. What a 218 51| popularity and doing his duty, is completely bewildered. The newspapers 219 29| while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not 220 44| a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences 221 42| How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate 222 51| fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. The newspapers, 223 23| Burker's Guide." And he concludes with this line in Italics 224 17| on our institutions! The conclusion will be, that mankind will 225 13| into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think 226 10| surprised when one has with confidence proposed to me, a grown 227 21| cradles or his toms. He is not confined to a claim twelve feet square, 228 52| but states, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses 229 52| sometimes as eupeptics, to congratulate each other on the ever-glorious 230 12| freedom. I feel that my connection with and obligation to society 231 33| clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, 232 1| shell. A man once came a considerable distance to ask me to lecture 233 33| news should be so trivial - considering what one's dreams and expectations 234 43| Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti 235 46| provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests 236 40| expected to descend and consume them all together.~ ~ 237 12| fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his 238 42| those chestnut burs which contain abortive nuts, perfect only 239 46| awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. 240 17| others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And 241 42| Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as had as 242 1| lecture on Slavery; but on conversing with him, I found that he 243 40| him guilty before he is convicted - were all equally criminal, 244 8| invented a rule for measuring cord-wood, and tried to introduce 245 33| I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.~ ~ 246 8| land, not which is most correct. I once invented a rule 247 8| have their wood measured correctly - that he was already too 248 31| proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself 249 23| this kind of mining; and a correspondent of the "Tribune" writes: " 250 52| unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical 251 40| witnesses, the jury and the counsel, the judge and the criminal 252 18| most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen. 253 13| of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been 254 40| spectator and auditor in a court-room for some hours, and have 255 46| fashions of past days - mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small-clothes, 256 41| attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the 257 20| standing in water, and covered with mud and clay, they 258 21| They will not mind his cradles or his toms. He is not confined 259 52| by the great gizzard of creation. Politics is, as it were, 260 46| which belonged to the living creature. You are presented with 261 4| there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, 262 4| an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or seared out 263 2| flattery, and retain all the criticism.~ ~ 264 20| solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with 265 8| measured in Charlestown before crossing the bridge.~ ~ 266 40| their narrow heads were crowded. Like the vanes of windmills, 267 26| another. But it was a more cruel suggestion that possibly 268 21| whole valley even, both the cultivated and the uncultivated portions, 269 23| useless baggage, and do not cumber yourself with a tent; but 270 16| men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle? 271 48| bitter enough to make the cup of life go down here? Yet 272 46| introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. 273 33| health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do 274 26| must be submitted to the D.D.'s. I would it were the chickadee-dees.~ ~ 275 39| Esquimaux-fashion, tearing over hill and dale, and biting each other's 276 30| another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches 277 48| worth the while to tempt the dangers of the sea between Leghorn 278 26| this country that would dare to print a child's thought 279 23| graveyards on the Isthmus of Darien, an enterprise which appears 280 46| and small-clothes, out of date. It is the vice, but not 281 26| discover it. Why must we daub the heavens as well as the 282 28| written the lives of the deacons of their church. Ordinarily, 283 1| lecture. I would have had him deal with his privatest experience, 284 7| employer has since run off, in debt to a good part of the town, 285 13| almshouse. On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an 286 23| says: "do not come before December; take the Isthmus route 287 46| this sense that the poet Decker called Christ "the first 288 1| only one eighth mine; so I declined. I take it for granted, 289 33| meet Hobbins, Registrar of Deeds, again on the sidewalk. 290 20| ten to one hundred feet deep, and half a dozen feet across, 291 42| wear and tear it, and to deepen the ruts, which, as in the 292 44| concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our 293 31| and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely 294 23| in preference to the Boca del Toro one; bring no useless 295 42| concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know 296 1| am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is 297 20| by a foot - turned into demons, and regardless of each 298 7| and the dignity forthwith departed from the teamster's labor, 299 47| patriotism in such a State? I derive my facts from statistical 300 40| thunderbolt might be expected to descend and consume them all together.~ ~ 301 13| whatever fine synonyms you describe these relations, is to go 302 1| as he might have done. He described things not in or near to 303 42| If we have thus desecrated ourselves - as who has not? - 304 46| they are continually being deserted by the character; they are 305 1| business - that there is a desire to hear what I think on 306 31| we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You 307 1| to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, 308 41| character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, 309 43| private state receive no detriment.~ ~ 310 43| consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private 311 17| know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, 312 33| expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The 313 42| rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. 314 7| adorn this Lord Timothy Dexter's premises, and the dignity 315 19| you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, society is 316 49| resources; for man naturally dies out of her. When we want 317 40| of the gods? I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts 318 16| or did he succumb to the difficulties of life like other men? 319 22| of the places where they dig: "Jackass Flat" - "Sheep' 320 52| some of the processes of digestion in a morbid state, and so 321 21| Yet, strange to tell, if a digger steal away, prospecting 322 7| Dexter's premises, and the dignity forthwith departed from 323 17| Occidentals meet? Did God direct us so to get our living, 324 21| were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the 325 19| it make whether you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, 326 8| readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid 327 11| suppose that they were rarely disappointed.~ ~ 328 25| we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease 329 26| inhabited or not, in order to discover it. Why must we daub the 330 26| earth? It was an unfortunate discovery that Dr. Kane was a Mason, 331 26| stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the 332 40| the tea-table chiefly are discussed? Or shall it be a quarter 333 20| day, dying of exposure and disease. Having read this, and partly 334 17| it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many 335 15| it that men are too much disgusted with their experience to 336 40| find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to 337 21| peace, for no one will ever dispute his claim. They will not 338 25| to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are 339 1| once came a considerable distance to ask me to lecture on 340 15| this question had never disturbed a solitary individual's 341 34| but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot 342 21| no danger that any will dog his steps, and endeavor 343 39| live without being drawn by dogs, Esquimaux-fashion, tearing 344 4| they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, 345 17| raffle! A subsistence in the domains of Nature a thing to be 346 51| a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints 347 1| will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent 348 14| Orientals say, "Greatness doth not approach him who is 349 23| properly prospected, no doubt other rich guacas [that 350 10| failure hitherto. What a doubtful compliment this to pay me! 351 8| almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by 352 20| hundred feet deep, and half a dozen feet across, as close as 353 26| unfortunate discovery that Dr. Kane was a Mason, and that 354 49| have artificial wants to draw out the great resources 355 7| his team, which was slowly drawing a heavy hewn stone swung 356 49| inhabitants. This alone draws out "the great resources" 357 22| Australia: "He soon began to drink; got a horse, and rode all 358 42| their peddling-carts be driven, even at the slowest trot 359 20| so that even hundreds are drowned in them - standing in water, 360 23| Tribune" writes: "In the dry season, when the weather 361 42| may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are in a sense 362 20| as close as they can be dug, and partly filled with 363 41| what will make the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled 364 51| popularity and doing his duty, is completely bewildered. 365 29| For the most part, they dwell in forms, and flatter and 366 37| Calm is my dwelling in the clouds;~ ~ 367 32| seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The 368 20| they work night and day, dying of exposure and disease. 369 52| not meet, not always as dyspeptics, to tell our had dreams, 370 8| done anything by which you earned money merely is to have 371 49| been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. 372 16| assuming grand airs? or find it easier to live, because his aunt 373 4| work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write 374 44| poor souls, till the former eat up all the latter's substance.~ ~ 375 43| is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that 376 9| pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers 377 5| under the hill along the edge of his meadow. The powers 378 5| them, I prefer to finish my education at a different school.~ ~ 379 42| unless they are in a sense effaced each morning, or rather 380 29| forms, and flatter and study effect only more finely than the 381 11| minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what 382 13| of man, and never make an effort to get up.~ ~ 383 1| be theirs, and only one eighth mine; so I declined. I take 384 1| his clique expected seven eighths of the lecture to be theirs, 385 51| their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper 386 14| life may be, constantly elevates his aim, though at a very 387 52| imagine by what sort of eloquence. Thus our life is not altogether 388 | else 389 10| proposed to me, a grown man, to embark in some enterprise of his, 390 10| soon as I came of age I embarked.~ ~ 391 23| graveyards] will be found." To emigrants he says: "do not come before 392 51| of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics 393 7| insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones 394 8| with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would 395 10| No, no! I am not without employment at this stage of the voyage. 396 49| artificial wants" to be encouraged? Not the love of luxuries, 397 19| The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever 398 23| The last resource of our energy has been the robbing of 399 52| Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as 400 1| They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am 401 12| getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The 402 6| esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had 403 18| righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, 404 40| is convicted - were all equally criminal, and a thunderbolt 405 51| shall probably read of the eruption of some Vesuvius, or the 406 13| In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, 407 39| without being drawn by dogs, Esquimaux-fashion, tearing over hill and dale, 408 45| culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan - 409 6| bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising 410 | etc 411 42| not the Times. Read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at 412 42| to the nearest shore of eternity! Have we no culture, no 413 52| dreams, but sometimes as eupeptics, to congratulate each other 414 34| attended, not to the affairs of Europe, but to your own affairs 415 52| congratulate each other on the ever-glorious morning? I do not make an 416 42| the streets of Pompeii, evince how much it has been used. 417 16| teach how to succeed by her example? Is there any such thing 418 46| is the vice, but not the excellence of manners, that they are 419 8| get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done 420 30| That excitement about Kossuth, consider 421 45| warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce 422 46| of the meat, and it is no excuse generally, that, in the 423 25| prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. Most reverend 424 7| which the American Congress exists to protect - honest, manly 425 52| morning? I do not make an exorbitant demand, surely.~ ~ THE END .~ ~ 426 40| hats, their ears suddenly expanded into vast hoppers for sound, 427 33| considering what one's dreams and expectations are, why the developments 428 11| bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One 429 28| of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never 430 33| consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character 431 49| whom our government sent to explore the Amazon, and, it is said, 432 33| character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the 433 20| night and day, dying of exposure and disease. Having read 434 30| over the country, but each expressed only the thought, or the 435 52| confirmed dyspepsia, which expresses itself, you can imagine 436 49| Amazon, and, it is said, to extend the area of slavery, observed 437 47| is it a family which is extinct? - in what condition would 438 1| his heart, but toward his extremities and superficies. There was, 439 7| teamster's labor, in my eyes. In my opinion, the sun 440 18| unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God's coffers, 441 12| ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, 442 1| foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as 443 31| proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and 444 13| backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an 445 42| or liberty, and make a false show with it, as if we were 446 16| wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be 447 47| Nineteenth Century? is it a family which is extinct? - in what 448 42| ourselves, and make once more a fane of the mind. We should treat 449 42| to pass at last from the farthest brink of time to the nearest 450 46| They appear but as the fashions of past days - mere courtliness, 451 22| the class. They are all fast men. Hear some of the names 452 25| instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, 453 12| time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes 454 46| world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer 455 29| solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; 456 12| as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings 457 29| houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not 458 42| morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and 459 49| resources of a country" that fertility or barrenness of soil which 460 34| then these things will fill the world for you; but if 461 20| they can be dug, and partly filled with water - the locality 462 40| travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our 463 13| an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes 464 13| to breathe - by whatever fine synonyms you describe these 465 29| and study effect only more finely than the rest. We select 466 46| fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear 467 17| the worlds by lifting my finger, I would not pay such a 468 42| perfect only to prick the fingers?~ ~ 469 5| him or them, I prefer to finish my education at a different 470 | first 471 46| that, in the case of some fishes, the shells are of more 472 41| police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. 473 42| to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Yes, 474 29| they dwell in forms, and flatter and study effect only more 475 2| I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.~ ~ 476 48| activity - the activity of flies about a molasses - hogshead. 477 33| news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere, insignificant 478 7| half turning round with a flourish of his merciful whip, while 479 21| from the golden mountains flow through our native valley? 480 1| though I may be the greatest fool in the country - and not 481 44| quarter troops, we quarter fools and cattle of all sorts 482 20| or then missing it by a foot - turned into demons, and 483 12| If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, 484 12| far I am successful. But I foresee that if my wants should 485 6| town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!~ ~ 486 51| overflowing of some Po, true or forged, which brought it into this 487 41| to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless 488 19| toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he 489 52| life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great 490 20| Having read this, and partly forgotten it, I was thinking, accidentally, 491 20| mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary 492 50| short, as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in 493 21| the shining particles and forming the nuggets for us? Yet, 494 29| most part, they dwell in forms, and flatter and study effect 495 51| reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects 496 7| premises, and the dignity forthwith departed from the teamster' 497 13| the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to 498 20| rush to probe for their fortunes - uncertain where they shall 499 43| battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be 500 20| streams, all cut up with foul pits, from ten to one hundred