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1 1| 0.01~ ~ 2 1| meal.................. 1.04 3/4~ ~ 3 18| winter quarters. On the 13th of March, after I had heard 4 1| 0.15~ ~ 5 8| quarts of beans sold..$ 16.94~ ~ 6 3| quarter was the revolution of 1649; and if you have learned 7 1| Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of 8 1| Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, "The best of their 9 14| days or more; in '46, the 16th; in '49, about the 31st; 10 15| covered by the great snow of 1717 when he was absent, and 11 16| following entry. Jan. 18th, 1742-3, "John Melven Cr. by 1 12 16| in his ledger, Feb, 7th, 1743, Hezekiah Stratton has credit " 13 10| that even so long ago as 1792, in a "Topographical Description 14 15| At length, in the war of 1812, her dwelling was set on 15 10| main shore, about the year 1824, which it has not been possible 16 13| called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting 17 10| day, the sixth of March, 1846, the thermometer having 18 17| quite melted till September, 1848. Thus the pond recovered 19 18| cold night, February 24th, 1850, having gone to Flint's 20 1| leaves a balance of $25.21 3/4 on the one side - this 21 14| time on the night of the 22d of December, Flint's and 22 18| 18th of April; in '53, the 23d of March; in '54, about 23 18| after a cold night, February 24th, 1850, having gone to Flint' 24 14| 31st; and in '50, about the 27th of December; in '52, the 25 18| 8th of April; in '51, the 28th of March; in '52, the 18th 26 18| On the 29th of April, as I was fishing 27 1| 0.31 (More than I needed.)~ ~ 28 10| the sun on the roof, was 42', or one degree colder than 29 1| windows with glass.... 2.43~ ~ 30 10| Spring the same day was 45', or the warmest of any 31 18| the 25th of March; in '47, the 8th of April; in '51, 32 18| 47, the 8th of April; in '51, the 28th of March; in ' 33 14| of December; in '52, the 5th of January; in '53, the 34 1| 61.99 3/4~ ~ 35 10| having been up to 65' or 70' some of the time, owing 36 1| 36.78~ ~ 37 1| Sugar..................... 0.80~ ~ 38 1| Flour..................... 0.88 (Costs more than Indian 39 18| 25th of March; in '47, the 8th of April; in '51, the 28th 40 1| 3.90~ ~ 41 8| quarts of beans sold..$ 16.94~ ~ 42 4| be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and words of one syllable, 43 7| if they heard the hounds a-baying on their track, and looked 44 7| the last. Children come a-berrying, railroad men taking a Sunday 45 5| It sets the sand a-blowing,~ ~ 46 14| IN OCTOBER I went a-graping to the river meadows, and 47 5| And the blackberries a-growing,~ ~ 48 13| June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her 49 11| his wife stared with arms a-kimbo, and both appeared to be 50 9| outskirts, having come to town a-shopping in their wagons, have been 51 1| with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. We make curious 52 12| half-starved hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison 53 1| all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another 54 12| other sweet liquid. The abdomen under the wings of the butterfly 55 12| imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.~ ~ 56 4| Concord? Can we not hire some Abelard to lecture to us? Alas! 57 15| The elements, however, abetted me in making a path through 58 1| the conductor shouts "All aboard!" when the smoke is blown 59 10| here, worn by the feet of aboriginal hunters, and still from 60 5| a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and 61 10| where the shore is most abrupt; so that, unfortunately, 62 10| The surrounding hills rise abruptly from the water to the height 63 9| could not see, dreaming and absent-minded all the way, until I was 64 8| distinction. They all reflect and absorb his rays alike, and the 65 15| where they lodged, and by absorbing the rays of the sun melted 66 1| will not venture to put my abstemiousness to the test unless he has 67 7| but we naturally practised abstinence; and this was never felt 68 9| whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in 69 11| that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which 70 10| part, or a cultivated field abuts on it. The trees have ample 71 10| stupid farmer, whose farm abutted on this sky water, whose 72 18| ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or 73 16| the first three syllables accented somewhat like how der do; 74 1| got audited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled. 75 4| classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of 76 8| and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded 77 5| herself would cheerfully accompany men on their errands and 78 1| obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little 79 10| require many years for its accomplishment. I have observed one rise 80 10| that they are hardly to be accounted for by the action of the 81 1| trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day. Among 82 4| interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or 83 15| The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes 84 6| of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which 85 17| mountainous circumstances, an Achillean shore, whose peaks overshadow 86 1| put any sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread. 87 17| refuge in my house, and acknowledged that there was some virtue 88 1| neighbor's land to gather the acorns which fall on it without 89 16| following pack pursuing their Actaeon. And perhaps at evening 90 15| in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding 91 5| the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, 92 7| Menoetius lives yet, son of Actor,~ ~ 93 15| deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict 94 1| more than any other can adapt himself to all climates 95 1| appearance and whatever additional beauty of this kind is destined 96 1| mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre. Ubi 97 1| I address myself now to those of my 98 1| will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. 99 19| experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I 100 14| themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and 101 17| his shores trend and his adjacent country or circumstances, 102 1| have also a small woodshed adjoining, made chiefly of the stuff 103 11| through Pleasant Meadow, an adjunct of the Baker Farm, that 104 1| so, to keep the flocks of Admetus. I also dreamed that I might 105 15| black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as 106 5| hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight 107 17| our eyes contemplate with admiration and transmit to the soul 108 1| Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, 109 1| it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.~ ~ 110 4| and independence, and is admitted to the circles of wealth 111 1| cellar. What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments 112 1| I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any 113 18| gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.~ ~ 114 13| chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression 115 19| experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction 116 17| sea, or a marsh. At the advent of each individual into 117 1| discoverers and navigators, great adventurers and merchants, from Hanno 118 3| cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the 119 14| heat. As for the axe, I was advised to get the village blacksmith 120 7| And Peleus lives, son of Aeacus, among the Myrmidons,~ ~ 121 13| to have witnessed them. "Aeneas Sylvius," say they, "after 122 6| such a storm but it was Aeolian music to a healthy and innocent 123 8| is in nature. The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which 124 1| slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, 125 13| this unequal combat from afar - for the blacks were nearly 126 1| authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; 127 9| painful to bear - without affecting the consciousness. I hardly 128 14| wood-pile with a kind of affection. I love to have mine before 129 1| have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, 130 15| It is the Codman place," affirmed another. And then fresh 131 3| the steppes of Tartary, affording ample room for all the roving 132 1| traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose 133 1| and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, 134 15| Sippio Brister" - Scipio Africanus he had some title to be 135 19| like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.~ ~ 136 8| meant to fly, then close again-"~ ~ 137 15| perchance, among the rest, the agent of the Insurance Company, 138 17| length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily 139 8| a classic result. A very agricola laboriosus was I to travellers 140 1| part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and there 141 1| think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing 142 3| awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation 143 8| buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity 144 1| directly a great part of our ails. The summer, in some climates, 145 1| such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more 146 19| the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be the same, 147 14| it. These are the little air-guns which contribute to make 148 13| and playing their national airs the while, to excite the 149 5| perceived clearly that it was akin to the music of the cow, 150 10| the bather appears of an alabaster whiteness, still more unnatural, 151 16| horizon. What do you mean by alarming the citadel at this time 152 19| deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living 153 3| Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really 154 12| gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that 155 5| and distention. The most aldermanic, with his chin upon a heart-leaf, 156 12| the "best men, - as the Algonquins called them. We cannot but 157 1| called by the Latins aes alienum, another's brass, for some 158 4| almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment than on our mental 159 1| sal-soda, or other acid or alkali, into my bread. It would 160 2| All-seeing prudence, magnanimity~ ~ 161 14| yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the 162 18| rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with 163 10| s Pond, a mile eastward, allowing for the disturbance occasioned 164 9| hung out on all sides to allure him; some to catch him by 165 3| delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, 166 1| in fact, might have an almond or caraway seed in it - 167 1| it - though I hold that almonds are most wholesome without 168 15| from the Stratton, now the Alms-House, Farm, to Brister's Hill.~ ~ 169 6| of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; 170 8| they rattled by compared it aloud with the fields which they 171 3| the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting 172 3| Hyades, to Aldebaran or Altair, then I was really there, 173 19| Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos.~ ~ 174 11| brought out John Field, with altered mind, letting go "bogging" 175 10| cerulean than the sky itself, alternating with the original dark green 176 | although 177 10| were, in clear white type alto-relievo. The ornamented grounds 178 8| what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on 179 16| hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked round and round 180 8| it, along the road. Our ambassadors should be instructed to 181 17| serenity reigns as in the amber twilight sky, corresponding 182 10| on her three hills. The ambrosial and essential part of the 183 15| much sober talk, making amends then to Walden vale for 184 19| dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, 185 16| The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One 186 5| Of some great ammiral."~ ~ 187 1| passion whatever. A general amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors 188 10| had the appearance of an amphitheatre for some land of sylvan 189 9| by my fire, the literary amuse himself with the few books 190 1| with fire; but so much for analogy. It appears, therefore, 191 1| not by the synthetic but analytic process - and I have gladly 192 1| portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in 193 10| to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark 194 10| green weed is brought up on anchors even in midwinter.~ ~ 195 1| diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and 196 8| might be conversing with an angel. Bread may not always nourish 197 6| blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint 198 15| the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and 199 18| the air cells are at right angles with what was the water 200 13| digging the bait meanwhile. Angleworms are rarely to be met with 201 13| generously rise and dash angrily, taking sides with all water-fowl, 202 13| answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him 203 17| they were the pearls, the animalized nuclei or crystals of the 204 19| the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is 205 6| which connect the days of animated life.~ ~ 206 1| to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like 207 5| their chilled breath, which announces that the cars are coming, 208 8| and so I got strength like Antaeus. But why should I raise 209 9| Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes."~ ~ 210 18| thus in the very sands an anticipation of the vegetable leaf. No 211 18| studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry 212 18| astronomy has. It is an antique style, older than Greek 213 14| long, sharp cones with the apex upward; or oftener, if the 214 1| them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! 215 14| discovered the groundnut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, 216 7| wiser than to think that apologies could supply the place of 217 1| generous companions without apology. My excuse for not lecturing 218 1| of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, 219 14| importance and independence are apparent. This was toward the end 220 3| deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to 221 10| a light snow has fallen, appearing as a clear undulating white 222 13| and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me 223 12| not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest 224 19| leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in 225 18| lobe, a word especially applicable to the liver and lungs and 226 3| for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, 227 1| with it, as he says. On applying to the assessors, I am surprised 228 1| appropriate produce, and appointed season, during the continuance 229 15| deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a 230 10| no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their 231 5| satirical, but to express my appreciation of those youths' singing, 232 3| ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and 233 12| some of his neighbors were apprehending a frost. He had not attended 234 1| He replied: Each has its appropriate produce, and appointed season, 235 6| familiar and worn by us, appropriated and fenced in some way, 236 1| Approving that our bodies of a stony 237 12| indispensable in the mind's approximation to God." Yet the spirit 238 3| begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost 239 1| Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque 240 17| to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They 241 3| like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. 242 1| that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared 243 17| one instance, on a line arbitrarily chosen, the depth did not 244 1| much stone hammered? In Arcadia, when I was there, I did 245 18| particularly attracted by the arching and sheaf - like top of 246 1| Balcom, a promising young architect, designs it on the back 247 17| seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow-birds. But sometimes 248 15| the fire but cooled our ardor. At first we thought to 249 1| odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It 250 4| natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more 251 16| length one alighted on an armful of wood which I was carrying 252 19| philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can 253 1| of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity 254 10| he sat in my doorway to arrange his lines. Once in a while 255 5| Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within 256 8| summer it appeared by the arrowheads which I turned up in hoeing, 257 1| began to cut down some tall, arrowy white pines, still in their 258 18| a meandering channel or artery within that, in which is 259 1| celebrated works on husbandry, Arthur Young among the rest, that 260 4| spend more on almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment 261 5| they were at length one articulation of Nature.~ ~ 262 18| Man was born. Whether that Artificer of things,~ ~ 263 18| startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were 264 1| not merely unnecessary or artistic, but luxurious and idle 265 13| clothes. It could readily ascend the sides of the room by 266 19| took to highway robbery "to ascertain what degree of resolution 267 1| new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, and ever, the 268 10| think that they must be ascetic fish that find a subsistence 269 1| the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the 270 10| catch pickerel, as I stepped ashore I tossed my axe back on 271 6| prairies. It is as much Asia or Africa as New England. 272 1| had got so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she 273 16| questions he interrupted me by asking, "What do you do here?" 274 3| newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied 275 7| called humble who never aspires - that humility was no distinct 276 4| better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom 277 12| And is not ass himself to all the rest!~ ~ 278 16| the wild free venison, assenting its vigor and the dignity 279 12| They mistake who assert that the Yankee has few 280 1| rich as a savage? If it is asserted that civilization is a real 281 10| this fluctuation the pond asserts its title to a shore, and 282 12| little goodness is all the assessment that we pay. Though the 283 1| says. On applying to the assessors, I am surprised to learn 284 13| saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore 285 1| my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left 286 12| s he who hath due place assigned~ ~ 287 1| our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving 288 1| education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated 289 5| suggested only pleasing associations, whether heard by day or 290 15| intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to 291 10| gently smoothed away and assuaged, as, when a vase of water 292 5| many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson 293 18| the air was heavy, but the assurance it gave me of the strong 294 19| societies and great men of Assyria - where are they? What youthful 295 9| Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes."~ ~ 296 1| history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about 297 1| hardly more incredible and astonishing than the scenes which I 298 7| summons before some Tremont or Astor or Middlesex House, to see 299 9| have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, 300 4| read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically. Most 301 4| most astrologically, not astronomically. Most men have learned to 302 18| in the mind of man that astronomy has. It is an antique style, 303 4| requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention 304 5| flying by two and threes athwart my view, or perching restless 305 17| the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes 306 3| ready to carry it on; like Atlas, to take the world on my 307 18| with the idea inwardly. The atoms have already learned this 308 18| did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past 309 5| have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that never turns aside. ( 310 1| the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.~ ~ 311 12| purity. When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, 312 10| southeast and east they attain to about one hundred and 313 1| and it threatens without attaining these to become no better 314 16| told him, for every time I attempted to answer his questions 315 19| abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth 316 3| what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning 317 1| humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak 318 1| have, indeed, never got audited, still less accepted, still 319 1| seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, 320 1| and, having bored a few auger holes in it, to admit the 321 1| himself. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed 322 18| Eurus ad Auroram Nabathaeaque regna recessit,~ ~ 323 10| living thus reserved and austere, like a hermit in the woods, 324 12| was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend 325 13| and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight! 326 19| scrutinize the outlandish Australians.~ ~ 327 4| will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible 328 4| only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried 329 8| broad leaf to look on. My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which 330 1| untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried 331 1| railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent 332 12| she must be overcome. What avails it that you are Christian, 333 8| infernal Plutus rather. By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling 334 3| thundering voice, "Pause! Avast! Why so seeming fast, but 335 13| apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus. 336 10| the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of 337 8| draw it - there being an aversion to other carts and horses - 338 14| crevices I do not know, avoiding winter and unspeakable cold.~ ~ 339 15| hardier bird occasionally awaited the return of spring.~ ~ 340 19| greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone. 341 12| of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher 342 1| not being in the least awed by many celebrated works 343 5| sometimes tempted to stretch an awning over them and take my seat 344 17| of the shore, the ancient axes of elevation. When this 345 18| ova of insects in their axils.~ ~ 346 1| and of this nature are the azads, or religious independents. - 347 17| and hoary ruin, built of azure-tinted marble, the abode of Winter, 348 3| whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little 349 18| swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side. Fresh 350 14| obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them 351 14| were going their way; but backing out of a modern palace will 352 13| their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting 353 1| political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, 354 5| useless sticks as their badge of office. But their dogs, 355 16| could think of nothing but Baffin's Bay. The Lincoln hills 356 1| continue to flow through Bagdad after the race of caliphs 357 1| travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated 358 14| dinner, and the oven that bakes your bread, and the necessary 359 1| a cover," that is, in a baking-kettle. Not a word about leaven. 360 1| of the outgoes leaves a balance of $25.21 3/4 on the one 361 16| the ear, which was held balanced over the stick by one paw, 362 1| and bread and butter. Mr. Balcom, a promising young architect, 363 18| Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. 364 5| gets slacked. These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, 365 10| through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed 366 1| great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle. Throw away 367 8| never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, 368 14| Why art thou banished from our hearth and hall,~ ~ 369 1| souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they 370 1| they who fail honestly. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the 371 5| with its steam cloud like a banner streaming behind in golden 372 5| bugs the earth is but the barb of the spear. The stabler 373 1| and civilization which are barbaric and heathenish build splendid 374 9| feet or the skirts, as the barber, the shoe-maker, or the 375 14| and drooping plant. The barberry's brilliant fruit was likewise 376 8| in the morning I worked barefooted, dabbling like a plastic 377 1| neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their 378 15| amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting 379 14| so necessary a thin, as a barrel or a ladder, so convenient 380 18| you could have collected a barrelful. This is the "sulphur showers" 381 17| stack, as surely as so many barrels of flour, and there placed 382 17| to work at once, plowing, barrowing, rolling, furrowing, in 383 10| distinguished by their transverse bars, and you think that they 384 1| could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food was concerned, 385 1| feast of first fruits," as Bartram describes to have been the 386 15| has witnessed, including Bascom's shop, and, between ourselves, 387 17| if they formed the solid base of an obelisk designed to 388 11| you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis 389 5| having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway 390 5| whistle; timber like long battering-rams going twenty miles an hour 391 13| It was evident that their battle-cry was "Conquer or die." In 392 13| ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle 393 1| perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental. 394 5| any other at night - the baying of dogs, and sometimes again 395 19| the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison, to some 396 13| to practise in Louisiana bayous. When compelled to rise 397 10| excepting one or two short sand beaches, and is so steep that in 398 6| school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, 399 9| pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we 400 19| cause the Sphinx to dash her bead against a stone, even obey 401 14| another, like a string of beads. But these within the ice 402 19| attracts me; - not hang by the beam of the scale and try to 403 10| of the lake, on which no beard grows. It licks its chaps 404 7| it reaches the ear of the bearer, else it may plow out again 405 1| messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, 406 19| I delight to come to my bearings - not walk in procession 407 12| I, can live this slimy, beastly life, eating and drinking.~ ~ 408 1| the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors. Much 409 16| ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, 410 14| me seriously, though they bedded with me; and they gradually 411 5| bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the 412 5| doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed 413 5| to tables, chairs, and bedsteads - because they once stood 414 9| When only beechen bowls were in request."~ ~ 415 11| that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the 416 1| molasses either of pumpkins or beets, and I knew that I needed 417 18| advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which 418 6| swelled with sympathy and befriended me. I was so distinctly 419 15| with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my 420 1| heaven and the eyes of men, a beggarly account of empty boxes? 421 15| intellect he embraces children, beggars, insane, and scholars, and 422 4| which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation 423 1| It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.~ ~ 424 1| only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that 425 1| demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the 426 17| a man's particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his 427 1| hereabouts, and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; 428 1| construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little 429 4| have gone up as far as the belfry; and then, having needlessly 430 1| fifty-two years, in the belief that it was time for the 431 1| have some faith left which belies that experience, and they 432 4| experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity 433 19| poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of 434 3| few pulls at the parish bell-rope, as for a fire, that is, 435 9| Nec bella fuerunt,~ ~ 436 1| churches do? So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their 437 5| under the pond, but vainly bellowing troonk from time to time, 438 8| all the village was a vast bellows and all the buildings expanded 439 13| was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races 440 5| were going by. When the old bellwether at the head rattles his 441 3| large squares of plate glass belonging to the establishment were 442 14| Thou who art welcomed and beloved by all?~ ~ 443 7| guests; so they drew their belts tighter and said nothing 444 13| leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, 445 4| some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered 446 6| my absence, either by the bended twigs or grass, or the print 447 9| the wind passes over it, bends."~ 448 1| or those who desire to be benefited by it, even to lay the foundation 449 1| a man's uprightness and benevolence, which are, as it were, 450 2| Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense,~ ~ 451 11| that were so distinguished. Benvenuto Cellini tells us in his 452 10| thought, and in his will bequeathed it to Concord. I see by 453 11| dogwood grow, the red alder berry glows like eyes of imps, 454 13| inhabitants. Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young 455 7| track, and looked at me beseechingly, as much as to say,~ ~ 456 16| partridge or rabbit walk, beset with twiggy fences and horse-hair 457 14| have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign 458 1| and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time 459 18| the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply. So 460 12| cannot speak of them without betraying my impurity. We discourse 461 10| A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the 462 1| could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that 463 19| court-yard like the Mameluke bey. I delight to come to my 464 4| wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their 465 1| thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.~ ~ 466 10| white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets ( 467 1| mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. Genius is 468 19| those humble thoughts, and bide its head from me who might, 469 1| which, though they may be biennials, are cultivated only till 470 16| plumper one, considerably bigger than himself, and skilfully 471 19| pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every 472 17| conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or 473 1| spreading, in cerealian billows over the land - this seed 474 15| mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who first 475 7| definition of a man - a biped without feathers - and that 476 17| would show when he had a bite. These alders loomed through 477 18| fishes and prevents their biting. The pond does not thunder 478 8| some by the sun, and also bits of pottery and glass brought 479 1| fashionable garments, till, one bitter cold day, one who had slipped 480 18| sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, 481 6| out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we 482 15| pleasantly-large, round, and black, blacker than any of the children 483 13| combat from afar - for the blacks were nearly twice the size 484 14| advised to get the village blacksmith to "jump" it; but I jumped 485 18| still puts forth its green blade to eternity.~ ~ 486 14| farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most 487 13| patriots' side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why here every 488 15| cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and 489 3| the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the 490 1| boards on the grass there to bleach and warp back again in the 491 4| a cold winter once on a bleak rock with these. To act 492 5| The air is filled with the bleating of calves and sheep, and 493 15| once gone through the wind blew the oak leaves into my tracks, 494 1| back plastering, Venetian blinds, copper pump, spring lock, 495 8| later in the day the sun blistered my feet. There the sun lighted 496 10| between the ribs of the bloated pest?~ ~ 497 17| raised by grappling irons and block and tackle, worked by horses, 498 1| track, he burned several blocks of houses in the lower streets 499 10| intermixed with a few faint blood-red ones, very much like a trout. 500 18| You here see perchance how blood-vessels are formed. If you look 501 16| contained the breed of nobler bloods, but stood on her last toes. 502 7| to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded