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1009 1| this does not spread by contagion. From what southern plains 1010 13| long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having 1011 6| will keep us well, serene, contented? Not my or thy great-grandfather' 1012 19| a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering 1013 13| circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by 1014 10| cleansed and uncleansed, all contiguous to one another! Stocked 1015 8| whatsoever comparable to this continual motion, repastination, and 1016 1| appointed season, during the continuance of which it is fresh and 1017 3| to be a prince. So soul," continues the Hindoo philosopher, " 1018 1| pearl tints, by such a contract as the inhabitants of Broadway 1019 1| lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell 1020 1| circumspection - to call in a contractor who makes this a subject 1021 14| the little air-guns which contribute to make the ice crack and 1022 17| the ice on every side, and contributed essentially, if not mainly, 1023 1| to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with 1024 12| found himself planning and contriving it against his will, yet 1025 12| for the time pervade and control every member and function 1026 1| great measure vanish. Those conveniences which the student requires 1027 3| breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle. The very dew seemed to 1028 17| a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of 1029 19| Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.~ ~ 1030 5| strained, and which had conversed with every leaf and needle 1031 8| suspect that we might be conversing with an angel. Bread may 1032 6| comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. 1033 4| and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good 1034 18| fumes and indigestions. It convinces me that Earth is still in 1035 15| combined the advantages of conviviality with the clear-headedness 1036 17| diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, 1037 17| there. Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their 1038 14| next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy, since I did 1039 14| respects to the fire that cooks your dinner, and the oven 1040 6| till noonday even in the coolest cellar, but drive out the 1041 13| head this way and that, he cooly surveyed the water and the 1042 8| tatters, and yet a seamless cope remained; small imps that 1043 4| bark, and are now merely copied from time to time on to 1044 5| metaphor, which alone is copious and standard. Much is published, 1045 18| forms which art loves to copy, and which, in the vegetable 1046 1| bene subegeris, defingito, coquitoque sub testu." Which I take 1047 1| and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. 1048 4| There are those who, like cormorants and ostriches, can digest 1049 15| stable-broom, mat-making, corn-parching, linen-spinning, and pottery 1050 17| valley with its stretching cornfields occupies exactly such a " 1051 1| as much time about their cornices as the architects of our 1052 10| which Concord wears in her coronet.~ ~ 1053 1| dollars each year, though the corporation had the advantage of building 1054 1| but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched. In the 1055 1| logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some 1056 5| proof-sheets which need no correction. Here goes lumber from the 1057 19| globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle 1058 4| protect them against the corrosion of time. Books are the treasured 1059 4| unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, 1060 1| which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through 1061 1| Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the 1062 1| cellular integument, or cortex; but our shirts are our 1063 3| wanderings. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, 1064 19| wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast 1065 18| is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization 1066 1| unpretending, humble log huts and cottages of the poor commonly; it 1067 18| not ripe till then; even cotton-grass, cat-tails, mulleins, johnswort, 1068 1| the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his 1069 1| Adelaide has the whooping cough. After all, the man whose 1070 5| were all gone off; why, you couldn't even hear the whistle! 1071 12| while. The Governor and his Council faintly remember the pond, 1072 7| to Patroclus for his sad countenance. - "Why are you in tears, 1073 5| pay for them! screams the countryman's whistle; timber like long 1074 5| country; your rations, countrymen! Nor is there any man so 1075 5| mortification of all healthy and courageous thought. It reminded me 1076 1| offer me any room in the court house, or any curacy or 1077 3| at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop, or 1078 19| ready to leap from their court-yard like the Mameluke bey. I 1079 1| and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not 1080 15| remain at eventide in his courtyard as long as it takes to milk 1081 18| the wake of their noisier cousins.~ ~ 1082 16| horse-hair snares, which some cow-boy tends.~ ~ 1083 9| walls or turn aside into cow-paths, and so escape, paid a very 1084 5| sheepcots, stables, and cow-yards in the air, drovers with 1085 19| deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist. 1086 1| engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their 1087 10| of huckleberries, ask the cowboy or the partridge. It is 1088 1| immortal, is he? See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely 1089 19| over the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her 1090 16| 18th, 1742-3, "John Melven Cr. by 1 Grey Fox 0-2-3"; they 1091 15| in the road we heard the crackling and actually felt the heat 1092 18| of the day, being full of cracks, and the air also being 1093 17| one acre. Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as 1094 19| over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, 1095 18| time in the crevice of a crag; - or was its native nest 1096 14| though I did not gather, the cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants 1097 17| immediately after the diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion 1098 3| Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are 1099 7| centipede that made you crawl all over. One man proposed 1100 19| I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on 1101 18| builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to 1102 1| and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town 1103 3| skimmed it, and got all the cream, and left the farmer only 1104 14| quartz. Perhaps these have creased it, for you find some of 1105 19| into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a 1106 11| misgiving. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 1107 1| stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour. It is very evident 1108 8| weedy dead. Many a lusty crest - waving Hector, that towered 1109 5| assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight 1110 13| the window-sill in that crippled state. Whether he finally 1111 17| morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with 1112 3| of his most elevated and critical hour. If we refused, or 1113 6| conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, 1114 15| and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still 1115 19| bestowed on us the wealth of Croesus, our aims must still be 1116 1| worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, 1117 15| hear me when I moved and cronched the snow with my feet, but 1118 15| be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the 1119 19| keeps pace with the seasons cropping the pastures of the Colorado 1120 5| but I cross it like a cart-path in the 1121 15| sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; 1122 8| towered a whole foot above his crowding comrades, fell before my 1123 4| again in order to speak. The crowds of men who merely spoke 1124 1| not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent 1125 1| ripe, and life loses its crudity and is once more sweet and 1126 16| afternoon and went out for a cruise in Walden Wood; and as he 1127 18| first gently nibbled and crumbled off, but at length heaving 1128 8| plastic artist in the dewy and crumbling sand, but later in the day 1129 14| had often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported 1130 8| reminded me of a march of crusaders in the horizon, with a slight 1131 11| the waxwork grooves and crushes the hardest woods in its 1132 15| past with furious speed and crushing loads, bearing, perchance, 1133 3| part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he 1134 5| of the urn, nor children crying, to comfort one. An old-fashioned 1135 10| but this water is of such crystalline purity that the body of 1136 3| slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on 1137 1| subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.~ ~ 1138 1| we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in 1139 14| words, he turned up his cuffs, seized a plasterer's board, 1140 11| irrecoverable. Meanwhile the right culinary vessel was selected, water 1141 3| now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and 1142 8| species, and sedulously cultivating another. That's Roman wormwood - 1143 8| brought hither by the recent cultivators of the soil. When my hoe 1144 14| move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind 1145 15| Negro," slave of Squire Cummings once-there where grow still 1146 6| drinks; but rather of Hebe, cup-bearer to Jupiter, who was the 1147 18| golden and silver and bright cupreous fishes, which looked like 1148 17| valleys. They are not like cups between the hills; for this 1149 1| the court house, or any curacy or living anywhere else, 1150 5| a salt fish, thoroughly cured for this world, so that 1151 1| their own ends, no doubt, he cures himself of his dyspepsia, 1152 15| There lay his old clothes curled up by use, as if they were 1153 18| fingers on every side. Fresh curls spring from the baldest 1154 1| today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by 1155 10| whose presence perchance cursed all the shores; who exhausted 1156 1| since learned that trade curses everything it handles; and 1157 1| resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him 1158 1| economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, 1159 1| it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to 1160 5| not look like a returning curve - with its steam cloud like 1161 18| handsome the great sweeping curves in the edge of the ice, 1162 1| than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on 1163 1| the land weaving toilet cushions against the last day, not 1164 5| until at last his oldest customer cannot tell surely whether 1165 1| clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. Otherwise 1166 17| side with the rest; and the cutters thus discovered that the 1167 7| The former was a sort of cyclopaedia to him, which he supposed 1168 5| flowers arranged in umbels cylindrically about its short stems, which 1169 19| the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a 1170 8| morning I worked barefooted, dabbling like a plastic artist in 1171 10| greenish back, somewhat dace-like in its character, which 1172 16| till at length he grew more dainty still and played with his 1173 5| turning down other than daisies and the nests of field mice, 1174 5| be straying over hill and dale; but soon I was not unpleasantly 1175 3| been a rich man without any damage to my poverty. But I retained 1176 3| freely a vast horizon" - said Damodara, when his herds required 1177 17| from his acquaintance with dams, sand would not lie at so 1178 1| Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati.~ ~ 1179 16| spectators as much as those of a dancing girl - wasting more time 1180 6| than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean 1181 17| accustomed to speak of deep and dangerous holes even in quiet sandy 1182 9| escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at 1183 7| in a stone bottle which dangled by a string from his belt; 1184 1| floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only 1185 4| Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all 1186 9| astabat dum scyphus ante dapes."~ ~ 1187 15| little house; I should not dare to say how many pounds' 1188 1| open spaces, and it was all dark-colored and saturated with water. 1189 3| above it being, shallow and darkened by clouds, the water, full 1190 11| Darting about."~ ~ 1191 1| properly be said to begin? Darwin, the naturalist, says of 1192 10| I see where the breeze dashes across it by the streaks 1193 12| noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with 1194 4| for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from 1195 1| expenses within the same dates, though little can be inferred 1196 14| from the north. We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great 1197 15| even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a 1198 15| had just lost myself over Davenant's "Gondibert," that winter 1199 13| thousands shared the fate of Davis and Hosmer. There was not 1200 1| even to look over the old day-books of the merchants, to see 1201 1| that the occupation of a day-laborer was the most independent 1202 11| their beauty, and he is dazzled and tempted by nameless 1203 3| Old Cato, whose "De Re Rustica" is my "Cultivator," 1204 1| present at the auction of a deacon's effects, for his life 1205 7| less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits 1206 4| even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, 1207 7| to a philosopher to have dealings with him. To a stranger 1208 1| devastation; there being a dearth of work, as he said. He 1209 11| Debate with no man hast thou,~ ~ 1210 18| how it is exhausted and debauched veins expand with still 1211 3| slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish 1212 1| and it may be were not decently buried themselves. The mason 1213 3| wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines 1214 18| leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, 1215 19| before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there 1216 15| wares, afterwards, as he declares, his brains. These he peddles 1217 1| does this work, which I decline, with his whole heart and 1218 1| Deducting the outgoes............. 1219 1| life. Leaven, which some deem the soul of bread, the spiritus 1220 19| opposition" to what are deemed "the most sacred laws of 1221 10| light green, which gradually deepens to a uniform dark green 1222 16| preserves the horns of the last deer that was killed in this 1223 16| game. Credit is given for deerskins also, and they were daily 1224 15| God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments. With 1225 19| and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the 1226 1| want of fuel, or from some defect in the draught, the fire 1227 19| it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler. No 1228 5| awakened by his tramp and defiant snort at midnight, when 1229 7| called humility, that he was "deficient in intellect." These were 1230 1| houses are cluttered and defiled with it, and a good housewife 1231 12| entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite 1232 10| Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which 1233 10| yet its model was sharply defined, as if it were a large decayed 1234 1| that is, as the dictionary defines it, - outward and visible 1235 1| pulchre. Ubi bene subegeris, defingito, coquitoque sub testu." 1236 19| faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant 1237 7| another time, hearing Plato's definition of a man - a biped without 1238 8| chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with 1239 1| and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience 1240 1| concerned, mainly to the defraying of funeral expenses. But 1241 18| respect in their mad pranks, defying humanity to stop them. No, 1242 15| proof against a lowland degeneracy. Alas! how little does the 1243 2| Degradeth nature, and benumbeth sense,~ ~ 1244 5| the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into 1245 3| propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily 1246 13| But that we may not be delayed, you shall be digging the 1247 3| wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and 1248 7| where he boarded, after deliberating first for half an hour whether 1249 18| inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear 1250 6| THIS IS A delicious evening, when the whole 1251 4| circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all 1252 15| affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color 1253 15| the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on 1254 4| modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We 1255 3| not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with 1256 6| front entries to keep the deluge out, I sat behind my door 1257 3| prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion 1258 3| Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest 1259 19| which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the surface, 1260 5| light - as if this traveling demigod, this cloud - compeller, 1261 1| their clothes." Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental 1262 16| game, barking raggedly and demoniacally like forest dogs, as if 1263 11| and hopeful face; but John demurred.~ ~ 1264 14| Never, bright flame, may be denied to me~ ~ 1265 13| a natural terror in its denizens; - now far behind his guide, 1266 1| the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the 1267 16| which are wont to grow up densely.~ ~ 1268 15| wells of tears. These cellar dents, like deserted fox burrows, 1269 1| reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. 1270 14| Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form~ ~ 1271 15| northwest wind had been depositing the powdery snow round a 1272 18| silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, 1273 1| men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no 1274 1| centuries before Christ. "Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque 1275 16| accented somewhat like how der do; or sometimes hoo, hoo 1276 13| concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts, confident 1277 7| institution, and the very derivation of the word pecunia. If 1278 11| thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this 1279 14| child, master or servant, derive from living in a house, 1280 18| and disheartens us, and deriving health and strength from 1281 6| College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert. The farmer 1282 15| with earthenware, and left descendants to succeed him. Neither 1283 18| felled on its mountains had descended~ ~ 1284 19| Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress 1285 3| kind, which I purpose to describe more at length, for convenience 1286 19| nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards 1287 10| been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers 1288 15| our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological 1289 17| solid base of an obelisk designed to pierce the clouds. They 1290 3| with respect: My master desires to diminish the number of 1291 17| As I was desirous to recover the long lost 1292 1| coastwise; to keep up a steady despatch of commodities, for the 1293 13| excitement, who either had despatched his foe, or had not yet 1294 18| sensualist, and merely pitied or despised him, and despaired of the 1295 15| clear heads; and when other dessert failed, we tried our teeth 1296 17| of this would reach its destination, and that two or three per 1297 1| without girdling and so destroying the man. I believe that 1298 12| early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which 1299 15| daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated 1300 17| through the ice I could determine the shape of the bottom 1301 1| himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his 1302 14| walls overhead, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. 1303 1| before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by 1304 1| spring thoughts, at the devastation; there being a dearth of 1305 10| drawing of a plug! That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending 1306 5| they could have consciously devised. I am less affected by their 1307 1| and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying 1308 1| the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth 1309 1| satellite himself; or to be devoured by the monsters that swarm 1310 8| a plastic artist in the dewy and crumbling sand, but 1311 16| while, making its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular 1312 4| how actually is it? His Dialogues, which contain what was 1313 17| Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward 1314 10| them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor. They are too 1315 15| and soiled cards, kings of diamonds, spades, and hearts, were 1316 1| to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, 1317 1| sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, - outward and 1318 7| a-going to hurt himself. He didn't care if he only earned 1319 16| which lives on buds and diet-drink.~ ~ 1320 1| from an economic than a dietetic point of view, and he will 1321 12| now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold 1322 7| in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient 1323 18| of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones. Each 1324 8| perchance, as Sir Kenelm Digby thinks likely, attracted " 1325 4| cormorants and ostriches, can digest all sorts of this, even 1326 9| all gossip is first rudely digested or cracked up before it 1327 9| the news, and such sound digestive organs, that they can sit 1328 12| now they are too old and dignified to go a-fishing, and so 1329 3| old! "Kieou-he-yu (great dignitary of the state of Wei) sent 1330 1| which is transitory; for the Dijlah, or Tigris, will continue 1331 3| house and barn, and the dilapidated fences, which put such an 1332 1| little better than the common dilettantism. A sentimental reformer 1333 6| his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded 1334 1| fashions which the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who 1335 15| unimproved by these men but to dilute their glass. They were universally 1336 17| it immediately after the diluvian crash, or whatever convulsion 1337 1| and high. It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, 1338 3| respect: My master desires to diminish the number of his faults, 1339 10| and I saw their schools dimly disappearing; so I spent 1340 10| the fishes dart at and so dimple it again. It is like molten 1341 8| collapsed alternately with a din. But sometimes it was a 1342 1| as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always 1343 7| a flat gray cloth cap, a dingy wool-colored greatcoat, 1344 13| then for morning calls and dinner-parties! Only a woodpecker tapping. 1345 19| notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested 1346 19| Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, 1347 12| To his beasts and disafforested his mind!~ ~ 1348 3| intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the 1349 1| richest freight will be discharged upon a Jersey shore; - to 1350 13| woods resound with their discharges. The waves generously rise 1351 15| of color," as if he were discolored. It also told me, with staring 1352 5| again the lowing of some disconsolate cow in a distant barn-yard. 1353 1| which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the 1354 16| length the jays arrive, whose discordant screams were heard long 1355 16| one of the most thrilling discords I ever heard. And yet, if 1356 1| secondly, in order not to discourage poor laboring people whom 1357 3| tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took 1358 1| studying the lives of all great discoverers and navigators, great adventurers 1359 3| have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the 1360 16| heard. And yet, if you had a discriminating ear, there were in it the 1361 15| dialect or other were by turns discussed. But all I can learn of 1362 19| the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin merely. One 1363 16| and after great labor they disgorge it, and spend an hour in 1364 15| still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his 1365 7| reminded him of a prince in disguise.~ ~ 1366 1| threw them out the window in disgust. How, then, could I have 1367 18| feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and 1368 13| round before you in such a dishabille, that you cannot, for a 1369 18| carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and deriving health 1370 19| supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more 1371 6| star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by 1372 18| why the judge does not dismis his case - why the preacher 1373 18| why the preacher does not dismiss his congregation! It is 1374 19| its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject 1375 1| much that he pretends to disown, behind him, even to his 1376 1| well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over 1377 7| that was good. Could he dispense with tea and coffee? Did 1378 5| smell the stores which go dispensing their odors all the way 1379 5| and again, until the sun disperses the morning mist, and only 1380 18| snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered 1381 13| the patriotism and heroism displayed. For numbers and for carnage 1382 13| behind me. But why, after displaying so much cunning, did he 1383 1| and thereafter carelessly dispose of them; so, to keep the 1384 3| My right there is none to dispute."~ ~ 1385 16| Squirrels and wild mice disputed for my store of nuts. There 1386 10| our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the 1387 15| But though comparatively disregarded now, when his day comes, 1388 19| means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like 1389 4| their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what 1390 1| It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which 1391 12| which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when 1392 6| best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never 1393 18| in all dells, and the ice dissolves apace in the ponds. The 1394 10| but it is on the one hand distantly and indirectly related to 1395 5| and become only liquor to distend their paunches, and sweet 1396 5| the same down to the least distended, leakiest, and flabbiest 1397 5| and waterloggedness and distention. The most aldermanic, with 1398 11| selected, water was seemingly distilled, and after consultation 1399 10| Walden Pond in the world and distiller of celestial dews. Who knows 1400 10| limbs are magnified and distorted withal, produces a monstrous 1401 1| to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious 1402 4| occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd 1403 9| was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I 1404 8| these, and Congress help to distribute them over all the land. 1405 4| These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound 1406 8| iteration in the labor - disturbing their delicate organizations 1407 10| surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole 1408 1| freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into 1409 15| trade here was that of a ditcher. Napoleon went to St. Helena; 1410 5| a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations 1411 1| modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun-shades, 1412 14| white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, 1413 10| conspicuous ripple bounded by two diverging lines, but the skaters glide 1414 16| madness, so that nothing could divert them from the pursuit. Thus 1415 13| how many other wounds, to divest himself of them; which at 1416 15| the precision of a pair of dividers in my own deep tracks - 1417 3| and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and 1418 19| From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, 1419 1| may not be good policy to divulge; it is a good port and a 1420 4| like; so let the village do-not stop short at a pedagogue, 1421 8| farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are 1422 1| and the job is let out to Dobson & Sons, stonecutters. When 1423 17| entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely 1424 19| intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this 1425 4| the liquor of the esoteric doctrines." I kept Homer's Iliad on 1426 1| Et documenta damus qua simus origine 1427 13| kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep with 1428 4| inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as 1429 10| As at Walden, in sultry dogday weather, looking down through 1430 1| any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man 1431 11| where the swamp-pink and dogwood grow, the red alder berry 1432 1| for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions 1433 5| hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along 1434 14| cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem 1435 11| short while, I lived like a dolphin. If it had lasted longer 1436 5| naturalized without being domesticated, it would soon become the 1437 15| men on their farms"; who donned a frock instead of a professor' 1438 1| passage for the hens under the door-board. Mrs. C. came to the door 1439 13| keep bright the devil's door-knobs, and scour his tubs this 1440 15| perhaps, waves where the door-stone was. Sometimes the well 1441 1| made brittle by the sun. Doorsill there was none, but a perennial 1442 9| which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing 1443 2| Thou dost presume too much, poor needy 1444 15| wide intervals between the dots. For a week of even weather 1445 18| the b (single-lobed, or B, double-lobed), with the liquid l behind 1446 17| each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not 1447 14| has travelled about and doubled on its tracks; and, for 1448 19| the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out. In 1449 6| woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood 1450 1| rent instead, this is but a doubtful choice of evils. Would the 1451 1| accidental souring of the dough which, it is supposed, taught 1452 1| cherish their innocence in dovecots.~ ~ 1453 5| silver wreaths, like many a downy cloud which I have seen, 1454 7| the safest position, where Dr. B. might be on hand at 1455 1| carry. If I have got to drag my trap, I will take care 1456 14| which had a book at the end, dragged them across. Though completely 1457 3| one - with this one other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout 1458 5| of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new 1459 18| flowing mass reaches the drain at the foot of the bank 1460 1| ripe; and straightway his drastic philanthropy seeks out the 1461 15| to drink long and healthy draughts at these, all unimproved 1462 1| no better than a modern drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, 1463 6| in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good 1464 6| accustomed to call wild and dreary, and also that the nearest 1465 9| were very wet, they were drenched to their skins. I have heard 1466 3| perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds 1467 13| it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight! Two killed 1468 1| though made by some tailor or dressmaker to their majesties, cannot 1469 18| wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves. Thus, 1470 15| chimney's breath made in the drift, and so relieved the family. 1471 5| the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless 1472 17| farming tools-sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, 1473 6| which the serpent sometimes drinks; but rather of Hebe, cup-bearer 1474 1| tolerable, straight, and drivable nails, staples, and spikes 1475 17| which a load of hay might be drived," if there were anybody 1476 14| of my bean-field. As my driver prophesied when I was plowing, 1477 8| that they had got the last drone of them all safely into 1478 5| serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern 1479 15| snow causing their limbs to droop, and so sharpening their 1480 18| house, which had so long drooped, suddenly resumed their 1481 14| regardless of the torn and drooping plant. The barberry's brilliant 1482 18| of softened sand with a drop-like point, like the ball of 1483 10| days, when the nuts were dropping into the water and were 1484 6| the very pattering of the drops, and in every sound and 1485 16| young and unhealthy, almost dropsical. I took a step, and lo, 1486 5| midst, on a level with their droves now, their vocation gone, 1487 3| had not been overcome with drowsiness, they would have performed 1488 3| instead of vexing the ears of drowsy farmers on their day of 1489 8| pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst 1490 11| green and shady that the Druids would have forsaken their 1491 18| I had struck on a tight drum-head. The pond began to boom 1492 19| because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music 1493 5| nothing of the eggs and drumsticks. To walk in a winter morning 1494 18| yesterday for a thief, a drunkard, or a sensualist, and merely 1495 12| are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is 1496 14| though waterlogged past drying. I amused myself one winter 1497 10| corresponding to the general wet and dryness. I can remember when it 1498 15| the most indistinct and dubious tradition says that once 1499 1| so many intra ones. This ducking was the very thing he needed. 1500 7| one chicken, and that a duckling; men of a thousand ideas, 1501 13| combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between 1502 19| Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise 1503 9| Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante dapes."~ ~ 1504 16| her hounding as if struck dumb with amazement, and walked 1505 14| fetched, through slides and dumbwaiters, as it were; in other words, 1506 13| know not whether it was the dumps or a budding ecstasy. Mem. 1507 15| Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, 1508 5| will come out an excellent dunfish for a Saturday's dinner.