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503 15| had grown up and died - blossoming as fair, and smelling as 504 8| thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood 505 14| Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;~ ~ 506 15| beauty of the landscape. A blue-robed man, whose fittest roof 507 10| supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and 508 3| of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain 509 6| day without ennui and "the blues"; but he does not realize 510 17| most transparent is the bluest. Ice is an interesting subject 511 10| and the color both of its bluish blades and its flowers and 512 10| its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color. Many 513 1| would commit so great a blunder as to use the labor of animals. 514 5| bags! It is no honest and blunt tu-whit tu - who of the 515 1| undone. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music 516 15| meadows, I encountered many a blustering and nipping wind, for nowhere 517 1| impervious to rain, but before boarding I laid the foundation of 518 1| time (I may say it without boasting), faithfully minding my 519 11| meadows, in sloughs and bog-holes, in forlorn and savage places, 520 11| till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their 521 11| his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this 522 19| yet." So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; 523 10| indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully 524 9| either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation 525 1| great impropriety is, Who bolsters you? Are you one of the 526 9| of danger." Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could 527 17| New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my 528 5| clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, 529 19| starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You 530 1| not burned; instead of a bonfire, or purifying destruction 531 8| live there?" asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the 532 1| tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been 533 18| short siesta at noon, and boomed once more toward night, 534 13| and dodged and played at bopeep with it; and when at last 535 14| his account of the forest borderers of England, says that "the 536 14| fences thus raised on the borders of the forest," were "considered 537 7| reformers, the greatest bores of all, who thought that 538 1| difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most 539 4| not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks. 540 17| men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking 541 1| granite, always in native bottoms. These will be good ventures. 542 16| would go with a squeak and a bounce. Near at hand they only 543 7| suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral 544 3| highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the 545 2| Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence,~ ~ 546 14| was, when in flower, a bouquet which scented the whole 547 8| time I had made another bout. Removing the weeds, putting 548 5| whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, 549 1| according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. Man 550 10| next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could 551 15| the hearth, instead of a bowl broken at the fountain. 552 5| nests of field mice, like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada, that 553 9| When only beechen bowls were in request."~ ~ 554 14| ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks 555 12| past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any 556 15| about large fires in cold, bracing weather, with clear heads; 557 3| then it knows itself to be Brahme." I perceive that we inhabitants 558 19| any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much 559 10| engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who 560 11| nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become 561 17| meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu 562 1| ways. What I have heard of Bramins sitting exposed to four 563 15| forth-coming jest. We made many a "bran new" theory of life over 564 10| night, threw the burning brands high into the air like skyrockets, 565 5| hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, 566 11| Field's poor starveling brat. There we sat together under 567 11| suppose they still take life bravely, after their fashion, face 568 10| which he could see his own brazen face; who regarded even 569 1| and indispensable art of bread-making, consulting such authorities 570 1| easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and 571 17| map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, 572 3| as indispensable as the breakfast. "Pray tell me anything 573 7| about thrice as big as a bream. "These being boiled, there 574 10| pulchellus), a very few breams, and a couple of eels, one 575 13| the black warrior, whose breastplate was apparently too thick 576 5| earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his 577 1| a great many coats and breeches. Dress a scarecrow in your 578 8| and the most favorable breezes told no tale, I knew that 579 1| keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, 580 5| rumbling of wagons over bridges - a sound heard farther 581 6| the mud to Brighton - or Bright-town - which place he would reach 582 18| greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better 583 18| several characters, looked brighter, greener, and more erect 584 19| windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; 585 6| darkness and the mud to Brighton - or Bright-town - which 586 16| pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.~ ~ 587 19| not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations 588 1| good deal warped and made brittle by the sun. Doorsill there 589 8| which are for the most part broadcast and floating in the air, 590 11| was long, indeed it was broader than it was long, for he 591 1| one's fellow-man in the broadest sense. Howard was no doubt 592 3| as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever 593 5| pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; 594 12| A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite 595 13| that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot 596 10| foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden 597 4| neutral family" papers, or browsing "Olive Branches" here in 598 10| struck the water with a brushy bough, and instantly took 599 1| is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem? 600 19| is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, 601 1| if all these traps were buckled to a man's belt, and he 602 13| whether it was the dumps or a budding ecstasy. Mem. There never 603 5| bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, 604 5| hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady 605 3| could let the years run off, buffet the winter through, and 606 16| Burgoyne - he pronounced it Bugine - which my informant used 607 5| petty train of cars which bugs the earth is but the barb 608 11| And here a poet builded,~ ~ 609 1| religion and love of art of the builders, it is much the same all 610 18| wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls 611 5| perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals 612 3| papers - and serve up a bull-fight when other entertainments 613 13| with more pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifested the 614 6| sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than 615 13| as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.~ ~ 616 3| your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth. 617 8| and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed 618 1| reefs and new lights and buoys to be ascertained, and ever, 619 16| a famous foxhound named Burgoyne - he pronounced it Bugine - 620 1| toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the 621 14| degree, had operated like a burning-glass on the ice beneath to melt 622 18| within the ice operate as burning-glasses to melt the ice beneath.~ ~ 623 18| slopes like lava, sometimes bursting out through the snow and 624 15| epitaph in the old Lincoln burying-ground, a little on one side, near 625 8| Plant the common small white bush bean about the first of 626 1| nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When 627 15| where once were the stir and bustle of human life, and "fate, 628 19| this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, 629 14| lovers of Nature there. So butchers rake the tongues of bison 630 10| water-logged, while the butt-end was still dry and light, 631 11| fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies or shells, vegetable winkles; 632 10| redolent of manures and buttermilk! Under a high state of cultivation, 633 9| under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was 634 13| Why here every ant was a Buttrick - "Fire! for God's sake 635 11| men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending 636 5| but often that singular buzzing sound like a fly in a spider' 637 5| railroad fashion" is now the byword; and it is worth the while 638 1| under the door-board. Mrs. C. came to the door and asked 639 16| dwelt, and raised their cabins high above the ice, though 640 10| pond. He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips 641 5| cockerels to crow nor hens to cackle in the yard. No yard! but 642 17| a wide interval from the cadaverous cod and haddock whose fame 643 14| strewn with the cases of caddis-worms made of minute grains of 644 3| imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them. I was 645 1| arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve 646 3| They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome 647 17| of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well. In the 648 18| showers" we bear of. Even in Calidas' drama of Sacontala, we 649 19| you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and 650 1| Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand 651 15| seams so that they had to be calked with much dulness thereafter 652 1| unfortunately I am become somewhat callous, I used to see a large box 653 13| afterward. They are not callow like the young of most birds, 654 5| filled with the bleating of calves and sheep, and the hustling 655 4| paper. Says the poet Mir Camar Uddin Mast, "Being seated, 656 1| that so many times they had camped. Man was not made so large 657 10| taste of the pump. Whoever camps for a week in summer by 658 19| shape the dynasty of the Candahars was at an end, and with 659 6| hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.~ ~ 660 13| his guide, barking like a canine bull toward some small squirrel 661 8| soon, either scarlatina or canker-rash, until at length some more 662 1| the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands. All costume off 663 19| through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with 664 1| the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as 665 19| necessary; and pile the empty cans sky-high for a sign. Were 666 13| itself for scrutiny, then, cantering off, bending the bushes 667 4| not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be 668 15| seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than 669 1| as old as Adam. But man's capacities have never been measured; 670 1| see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished 671 15| think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, 672 1| might have an almond or caraway seed in it - though I hold 673 13| to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone 674 7| yellow walnut leaf for a card:~ ~ 675 3| happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we 676 5| oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish 677 16| one paw, slipped from his careless grasp and fell to the ground, 678 1| occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse 679 2| T. CAREW~ ~ 680 5| the bear, and moose, and caribou. Next rolls Thomaston lime, 681 14| dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, 682 17| pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming 683 3| know how to throw in Don Carlos and the Infanta, and Don 684 15| his face was the color of carmine. He died in the road at 685 12| a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and 686 18| revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring. 687 1| By surveying, carpentry, and day-labor of various 688 1| that they were commonly carpeted and lined within with well-wrought 689 1| my time in earning rich carpets or other fine furniture, 690 8| quivering winnowing sound and carrier haste; or from under a rotten 691 1| in the intervals of the carting, transferred the still tolerable, 692 4| or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life 693 9| hands in their pockets, like caryatides, as if to prop it up. They, 694 1| colors, and be inevitably cashiered at last by our own opinion, 695 3| freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy 696 4| expeditions in a precious casket. A written word is the choicest 697 3| behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise 698 10| literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs 699 1| the remembrance of his own castoff griefs as an atmosphere, 700 10| is nowhere muddy, and a casual observer would say that 701 14| and I learned the various casualties to which the plasterer is 702 18| then; even cotton-grass, cat-tails, mulleins, johnswort, hardhack, 703 1| to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, 704 1| with their bodies, like caterpillars, the breadth of vast empires; 705 7| ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, 706 16| Stratton has credit "by 1/2 a Catt skin 0-1-4 1/2"; of course, 707 8| ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, 708 5| And hark! here comes the cattle-train bearing the cattle of a 709 18| to see if my house was cavern-like enough for her, sustaining 710 1| objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that 711 1| something else to prevent the caving in of the earth; floor this 712 17| through, it will wear large cavities, leaving slight supports 713 17| to see it. It was a small cavity under ten feet of water; 714 8| The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels 715 6| forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an 716 10| detect a water-bug (Gyrinus) ceaselessly progressing over the smooth 717 18| the sun withdraws the sand ceases to flow, but in the morning 718 1| not be well if we were to celebrate such a "busk," or "feast 719 1| Mucclasse Indians? "When a town celebrates the busk," says he, "having 720 19| it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee 721 14| have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia 722 15| Cato's half-obliterated cellar-hole still remains, though known 723 18| be its position, the air cells are at right angles with 724 14| Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, 725 11| bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, 726 14| ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably 727 13| put all other locks and cements to shame. I should not have 728 15| are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and 729 7| a sort of intellectual centipede that made you crawl all 730 18| compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable 731 5| of May, the sand cherry (Cerasus pumila) adorned the sides 732 7| s house, by any kind of Cerberus whatever, as by the parade 733 1| hatching eggs. They were a real cereal fruit which I ripened, and 734 1| swelling, spreading, in cerealian billows over the land - 735 5| ejaculates the master of ceremonies, with satisfaction, tr-r-r-oonk! 736 1| carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to 737 10| sword blades suggest, more cerulean than the sky itself, alternating 738 3| darkening way. After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the 739 1| much cant and hypocrisy - chaff which I find it difficult 740 1| the stomach"; or dwelling, chained for life, at the foot of 741 17| element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, 742 15| would scrape both sides of a chaise at once, and women and children 743 17| beneath the rattling teams and chaises and tinkling sleighs that 744 1| Chalk................................. 745 15| consequence of my attempt to read Chalmers' collection of English poetry 746 5| from Long Wharf to Lake Champlain, reminding me of foreign 747 18| but patented a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic 748 10| blue, such as watered or changeable silks and sword blades suggest, 749 5| disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse 750 5| by, the whip-poor-wills chanted their vespers for half an 751 18| creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the 752 1| surrounded by luxuries. As Chapman sings,~ ~ 753 18| chip, chip, chip, che char - che wiss, wiss, wiss. 754 1| after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate 755 13| limbs; whose mother had charged him to return with his shield 756 1| beneficence, had the sun's chariot but one day, and drove out 757 1| of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who 758 17| sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras 759 5| therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely 760 10| perch, which I seem to have charmed, hovering around me, and 761 12| string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us. Many 762 19| own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, 763 1| improvements in navigation; - charts to be studied, the position 764 1| sound of my axe, and we chatted pleasantly over the chips 765 1| no traveller with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall 766 12| far I am of the opinion of Chaucer's nun, who~ ~ 767 1| 1.73 (Cheapest form of the~ ~ 768 1| Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, 769 8| sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one 770 4| keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading 771 13| Suddenly your adversary's checker disappears beneath the board, 772 18| dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and 773 1| for nothing but to raise cheeping squirrels on." I put no 774 14| Where nothing cheers nor saddens, but a fire~ ~ 775 14| longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process. It will soon be 776 1| his natural eye; to study chemistry, and not learn how his bread 777 5| with goodsized and handsome cherries, fell over in wreaths like 778 10| of mariners. I went a - chestnutting there in the fall, on windy 779 7| roll it up into a ball and chew it while he laughed and 780 18| veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds. I had 781 18| and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable 782 5| circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, 783 16| winding up his clock and chiding all imaginary spectators, 784 1| honey. I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn 785 1| The childish and savage taste of men 786 5| out the fog bank of their chilled breath, which announces 787 5| which is still raging and chilling men's blood, I bear the 788 18| or the striped squirrel's chirp, for his stores must be 789 18| when I stamped they only chirruped the louder, as if past all 790 18| the queerest chuckling and chirruping and vocal pirouetting and 791 10| directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting 792 8| or a skunk to exercise my chivalry upon. These martial strains 793 10| they are the nests of the chivin. These lend a pleasing mystery 794 10| over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), 795 4| casket. A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something 796 5| and make permanent in her choir the dying moans of a human 797 16| big for their throats and chokes them; and after great labor 798 8| piper-grass - have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward 799 7| miles past my house - for he chopped all summer - in a tin pail; 800 7| He was a skilful chopper, and indulged in some flourishes 801 10| helped boil a kettle of chowder, some six rods from the 802 14| pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth. I had the 803 13| expulsion of the tyrant Christiern the Second from Sweden." 804 18| such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written 805 18| and kept up the queerest chuckling and chirruping and vocal 806 5| domestic sounds; neither the chum, nor the spinning-wheel, 807 1| as the architects of our churches do? So are made the belles-lettres 808 10| raise your potatoes in the churchyard! Such is a model farm.~ ~ 809 15| their fruit still wild and ciderish to my taste. Not long since 810 6| the lingering odor of a cigar or pipe. Nay, I was frequently 811 3| surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge 812 4| gilt-covered edition of Cinderella - without any improvement, 813 15| at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering to himself, 814 8| which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, 815 4| as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts 816 18| pond, though the cold air circulated underneath, and so had access 817 4| stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium 818 10| mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one 819 13| they, "after giving a very circumstantial account of one contested 820 16| you mean by alarming the citadel at this time of night consecrated 821 10| Concord," by one of its citizens, in the Collections of the 822 1| indistinct but wholly unjust claims on the score of ground rent 823 1| for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a 824 18| my light, and with hushed clamor wheeled and settled in the 825 12| pure; but no doubt such a clarifying process would be going on 826 5| pauses when their lords' clarions rested! No wonder that man 827 19| Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own 828 5| and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. 829 4| Reading, the primers and class-books, and when we leave school, 830 16| placing them under their claws, hammered away at them with 831 10| daily tide, its shore is cleanest when the water is lowest. 832 12| earnestly, though it be at cleaning a stable. Nature is hard 833 1| despicable things, sweep and cleanse their houses, squares, and 834 15| of conviviality with the clear-headedness which philosophy requires.~ ~ 835 1| they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were 836 14| as if occupying slight cleavages. The beauty of the ice was 837 3| born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its 838 17| but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not 839 19| If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go 840 1| the observatory of some cliff or tree, to telegraph any 841 10| and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging 842 18| earth? Its eyry now some cliffy cloud.~ ~ 843 14| sound ones. Occasionally I climbed and shook the trees. They 844 1| crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain-tops. But lo! 845 19| putty. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you 846 18| herself on humming winds with clinched talons, as if she held by 847 15| all that he could now cling to - to convince me that 848 5| vocation gone, but still clinging to their useless sticks 849 5| not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte 850 7| the village in his small close-fitting cap, and whistling to himself, 851 5| and founded on fact! This closed car smells of salt fish, 852 17| the surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes 853 12| hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. 854 3| exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering, 855 1| possible by wrapping them in cloths. I made a study of the ancient 856 5| distinguished not only the cluck after each note, but often 857 13| to the front of my house, clucking and calling to them like 858 1| workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, 859 14| and loaded myself with clusters more precious for their 860 12| compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. But to tell the truth, 861 1| all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch 862 9| village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put 863 5| ever heard the sound of cock-crowing from my clearing, and I 864 5| worth the while to keep a cockerel for his music merely, as 865 5| summer, the Manilla hemp and cocoanut husks, the old junk, gunny 866 17| interval from the cadaverous cod and haddock whose fame is 867 17| fathomed it easily with a cod-line and a stone weighing about 868 14| store of wild apples for coddling, which the proprietor and 869 15| cried one. "It is the Codman place," affirmed another. 870 10| belonged to the ancient sect of Coenobites. There was one older man, 871 13| when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. 872 1| with constructing his own coffin - the architecture of the 873 1| is but another name for "coffin-maker." One man says, in his despair 874 18| retained some seeds of cognate heaven."~ ~ 875 3| seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth 876 7| a way as to suggest and coincide with the most philosophical 877 15| the covering up of wells! coincident with the opening of wells 878 15| occupied Wyman's tenement - Col. Quoil, he was called. Rumor 879 1| taken with a fit of the colic and his trappings will have 880 8| the buildings expanded and collapsed alternately with a din. 881 15| attempt to read Chalmers' collection of English poetry without 882 10| of its citizens, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical 883 4| rock with these. To act collectively is according to the spirit 884 4| exhalations like our daily colloquies and vaporous breath. What 885 1| in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling-houses 886 19| cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and 887 14| brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.~ ~ 888 12| waters of the Missouri and Columbia a trapper, and at the Falls 889 19| preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents 890 13| In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, 891 7| village was literally a com-munity, a league for mutual defence, 892 18| a cake begins to rot or "comb," that is, assume the appearance 893 1| clothes. Is it impossible to combine the hardiness of these savages 894 15| thin dish of gruel, which combined the advantages of conviviality 895 5| motion - or, rather, like a comet, for the beholder knows 896 12| to seek him forthwith. "A command over our passions, and over 897 18| wings at the signal of their commander, and when they had got into 898 5| enterprise were as heroic and commanding as it is protracted and 899 1| that nations should seek to commemorate themselves? How much more 900 1| other birds already come to commence another year with us. They 901 12| be observed, as a Hindoo commentator has remarked, that the Vedant 902 5| the strong New England and commercial scent, reminding me of the 903 19| celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly 904 1| copper pump, spring lock, a commodious cellar, and many other things. 905 1| up a steady despatch of commodities, for the supply of such 906 9| appetite for the former commodity, that is, the news, and 907 16| settling by my light, their commodore honking all the while with 908 19| that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men 909 10| a poor name from its commonness, whether derived from the 910 1| narrow axe, not having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, 911 1| have nothing important to communicate. Either is in such a predicament 912 12| and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true 913 10| tails in the moonlight, and communicating by a long flaxen line with 914 1| compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all 915 1| live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if 916 6| the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for 917 8| or laetation whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, 918 1| not in the least affect a comparative statement like this.~ ~ 919 6| calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey 920 5| traveling demigod, this cloud - compeller, would ere long take the 921 7| conversation; and so was compensated. Indeed, I found some of 922 14| trowel without mishap, with a complacent look toward the lathing 923 8| more particular, for it is complained that Mr. Colman has reported 924 1| are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their 925 2| COMPLEMENTAL VERSES.~ ~ 926 1| as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also. 927 1| paint your house your own complexion; let it turn pale or blush 928 5| side. I tasted them out of compliment to Nature, though they were 929 14| rid of them; I even felt complimented by their regarding my house 930 1| various materials which compose them:~ ~ 931 1| The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for 932 17| bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.~ ~ 933 19| perennial youth. As he made no compromise with Time, Time kept out 934 16| which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous 935 5| cars are going to Boston, conceals the sun for a minute and 936 14| remembered the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, 937 3| Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist 938 19| buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in 939 3| and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it 940 13| gladly soon, but I am just concluding a serious meditation. I 941 15| Cato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a 942 17| and no natural currents concur to individualize them.~ ~ 943 17| conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not 944 1| sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of 945 12| pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will 946 17| thought secures its own conditions - changes, perhaps, from 947 4| surrounds himself with whatever conduces to his culture - genius - 948 1| rushes to the depot, and the conductor shouts "All aboard!" when 949 11| the wrinkled, sibyl-like, cone-headed infant that sat upon its 950 3| Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, 951 15| symbol of his death, for he confessed to me that, though he had 952 18| us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest 953 7| they had, and make their confessions to me; in such cases making 954 19| experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his 955 5| unfrequented woods on the confines of towns, where once only 956 3| shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine 957 15| tone referred to the great conflagrations which the world has witnessed, 958 10| does not in any respect conflict with the account of that 959 17| greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, 960 18| a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face. The 961 19| to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, 962 12| not what it is. We speak conformably to the rumor which we have 963 1| some sad experience in conforming to the wishes of friends 964 4| that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred 965 1| vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for 966 19| there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. 967 17| not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, 968 13| these three sentences of Confut - see; they may fetch that 969 19| generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last 970 12| success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily 971 6| Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source 972 18| preacher does not dismiss his congregation! It is because they do not 973 8| such seeds as these, and Congress help to distribute them 974 13| with patent rifles and conical balls and spy-glasses. They 975 1| capital, it may not be easy to conjecture where those means, that 976 10| pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook 977 4| meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common 978 14| consecrated grove (lucum conlucare), that is, would believe 979 6| s watchmen - links which connect the days of animated life.~ ~ 980 8| Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated 981 17| leach-hole" should be found, its connection with the meadow, if any 982 13| that their battle-cry was "Conquer or die." In the meanwhile 983 1| find out by what degree of consanguinity 'They' are related to me, 984 1| clothes, than to have a sound conscience. But even if the rent is 985 3| eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, 986 7| but the most proper and considerate course. The waste and decay 987 1| not rendered an account - consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, 988 10| which has already acquired consistency. They preserve their form 989 10| diameter by a foot in height, consisting of small stones less than 990 5| graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering 991 1| desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery 992 1| and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed 993 11| And hang conspiracies~ ~ 994 10| but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant 995 3| of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far 996 4| to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round 997 1| it does not agree with my constitution. Probably I should not consciously 998 5| hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that practically 999 1| as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect 1000 9| institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate 1001 11| seemingly distilled, and after consultation and long delay passed out 1002 17| in artificial. They never consulted with books, and know and 1003 1| indispensable art of bread-making, consulting such authorities as offered, 1004 1| into one common heap, and consume it with fire. After having 1005 1| beside produce consumed and on hand at the time 1006 7| cowhide boots. He was a great consumer of meat, usually carrying 1007 6| Mourning untimely consumes the sad;~ ~ 1008 1| in herds of cattle. With consummate skill he has set his trap