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1509 8| about it, to sustain us; all dungings and other sordid temperings 1510 1| Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum,~ ~ 1511 16| to come round my door at dusk to nibble the potato parings 1512 10| hazy brush - this the light dust-cloth - which retains no breath 1513 1| New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information 1514 19| generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, 1515 1| colonies, commenced their first dwelling-houses in this fashion for two 1516 3| which I had left behind, dwindled and twinkling with as fine 1517 18| Sacontala, we read of "rills dyed yellow with the golden dust 1518 19| though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer 1519 1| he cures himself of his dyspepsia, the globe acquires a faint 1520 14| but my hopes shot upward e'er so bright?~ ~ 1521 1| to talk sensibly. We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic 1522 1| increasing of them. The neighbors eagerly collected to view them, 1523 10| and that there were many eagles about it. He came here a-fishing, 1524 10| devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout 1525 15| furnished his townsmen with earthenware, and left descendants to 1526 14| thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated 1527 1| illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered 1528 1| solid and honest though earthy foundation. I cannot but 1529 17| their history. But it is easiest, as they who work on the 1530 18| The East-Wind withdrew to Aurora and the 1531 12| and one does not hear; one eats, and one does not know the 1532 18| still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety 1533 12| England and America. Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to 1534 1| Show goes off here with eclat annually, as if all the 1535 1| the subject rather from an economic than a dietetic point of 1536 1| or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. 1537 7| all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. 1538 13| was the dumps or a budding ecstasy. Mem. There never is but 1539 10| and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already 1540 15| wool"; which is about as edifying as the history of more famous 1541 3| is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women 1542 4| his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella - without 1543 1| wide circulation, whose editor has never yet seen fit to 1544 3| million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only 1545 5| natural form." The only effectual cure for such inveteracies 1546 1| ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial 1547 8| the most part is lean and effete. My enemies are worms, cool 1548 1| retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. 1549 8| spotted salamander, a trace of Egypt and the Nile, yet our contemporary. 1550 13| and sweetbriers tremble. - Eh, Mr. Poet, is it you? How 1551 1| wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and 1552 14| These bubbles are from an eightieth to an eighth of an inch 1553 5| circuit of the shores, then ejaculates the master of ceremonies, 1554 5| passes round the cup with the ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r--oonk, 1555 11| Haven, through the woods, to eke out my scanty fare of vegetables. 1556 4| rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the 1557 10| It is wonderful with what elaborateness this simple fact is advertised - 1558 13| length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it 1559 4| universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows 1560 11| fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared 1561 15| by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake. 1562 5| stage-office? There is something electrifying in the atmosphere of the 1563 15| commonly some breadth and elegance. I think that he should 1564 8| inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the 1565 3| unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious 1566 12| and urine, and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not 1567 10| his wild beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded 1568 1| of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that 1569 19| the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to 1570 9| meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other 1571 1| possible to man a sort of Elysian life. Fuel, except to cook 1572 8| patremfamilias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet), from~ ~ 1573 1| would soon be completely emasculated. I think that in the railroad 1574 5| pushing up through the embankment which I had made, and growing 1575 14| myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a 1576 8| another, as if they were the embodiment of my own thoughts, Or I 1577 18| singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, 1578 1| within with well-wrought embroidered mats, and were furnished 1579 12| civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter 1580 10| one bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes 1581 3| children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. 1582 12| them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers 1583 1| is not a retainer to any emperor, nor is its material silver, 1584 1| caterpillars, the breadth of vast empires; or standing on one leg 1585 5| apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would 1586 1| kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. 1587 11| it might have tinged my employments and life. As I walked on 1588 1| subject of speculation, and he employs Irishmen or other operatives 1589 1| At one time, owing to the emptiness of my purse, I saw none 1590 1| philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety. While one 1591 4| that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate 1592 15| not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene 1593 10| been surprised to detect encircling the pond, even where a thick 1594 1| to those who find their encouragement and inspiration in precisely 1595 1| life, even if he is not encumbered with a family - estimating 1596 | ending 1597 1| work which you may call endless; a woman's dress, at least, 1598 19| and his elevated piety, endowed him, without his knowledge, 1599 7| was developed. In physical endurance and contentment he was cousin 1600 14| slowly, it was calculated to endure a long time. The chimney 1601 1| are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, 1602 1| nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations? Are 1603 1| doing something - I will not engage that my neighbors shall 1604 13| greatest fidelity.' A similar engagement between great and small 1605 10| better men for the sight. The engineer does not forget at night, 1606 10| it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, 1607 15| fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by 1608 1| of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make 1609 15| these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! 1610 10| Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. Farmers are 1611 4| to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his 1612 19| cowards that run away and enlist. Start now on that farthest 1613 1| I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. 1614 1| his all - looking like an enormous well which had grown out 1615 1| that corporations may be enriched. In the long run men hit 1616 1| and subtle masters that enslave both North and South. It 1617 1| My gay butterfly is entangled in a spider's web then. 1618 12| turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth 1619 1| we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that 1620 1| of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow 1621 15| insane, and scholars, and entertains the thought of all, adding 1622 1| it with the fondness and enthusiasm of lovers - and, to some 1623 17| not comprehended in its entireness.~ ~ 1624 1| these are the country rates) entitles him to the benefit of the 1625 6| only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, 1626 12| significant fact, stated by entomologists - I find it in Kirby and 1627 6| with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out, 1628 1| and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, 1629 19| is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like 1630 6| left, on our right; they environ us on all sides."~ ~ 1631 16| should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. The squirrels 1632 1| fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes 1633 15| Not long since I read his epitaph in the old Lincoln burying-ground, 1634 18| the morning, The day is an epitome of the year. The night is 1635 5| of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. They 1636 4| genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and 1637 14| and Philadelphia "nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, 1638 1| manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor 1639 4| many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading 1640 3| the universe and to those eras in history which had most 1641 10| upon my house as a building erected for the convenience of fishermen; 1642 14| et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine 1643 5| cheerfully accompany men on their errands and be their escort.~ ~ 1644 19| Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur 1645 8| the horizon, as if some eruption would break out there soon, 1646 5| their errands and be their escort.~ ~ 1647 6| of that old herb-doctor Esculapius, and who is represented 1648 1| treated like the humbler esculents, which, though they may 1649 4| drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines." I kept Homer' 1650 1| philanthropy seeks out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and 1651 16| passed for sealers, or Esquimaux, or in misty weather loomed 1652 15| slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, 1653 8| patremfamilias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet), from~ ~ 1654 13| being resolved into the essence of things as ever I was 1655 14| night, containing all the essentials of a house, and nothing 1656 1| not help us in our best estate, when we are most worthy 1657 1| to lie there till their estates are settled, when they will 1658 17| the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand 1659 1| encumbered with a family - estimating the pecuniary value of every 1660 1| ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his 1661 17| as if he had a design to estivate with us. They calculated 1662 1| stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which 1663 9| whisper through them like the Etesian winds, or as if inhaling 1664 17| pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. 1665 6| certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make 1666 13| fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence 1667 19| Societies, and the public Eulogies of Great Men! It is the 1668 1| with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. 1669 18| Eurus ad Auroram Nabathaeaque 1670 12| this horse, goat, wolf, and ev'ry beast,~ ~ 1671 1| important messages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round 1672 7| moisture may have a chance to evaporate. If we would enjoy the most 1673 17| trees, and sending up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces 1674 17| flour, and there placed evenly side by side, and row upon 1675 19| uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out 1676 15| house-holder is to remain at eventide in his courtyard as long 1677 6| flowers, or a wreath of evergreen, or a name in pencil on 1678 8| my clearing only the same everlastingly great look that it wears 1679 13| hillside of this valley, evidently full of excitement, who 1680 1| but a doubtful choice of evils. Would the savage have been 1681 5| type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and 1682 3| occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is 1683 18| herba imbribus primoribus evocata" - as if the earth sent 1684 1| advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the 1685 14| opportunity to study it. If you examine it closely the morning after 1686 14| opportunity that ever offers for examining the bottom where it is shallow; 1687 14| nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, that of the best wood in 1688 3| a French revolution not excepted.~ ~ 1689 4| this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or 1690 1| them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and 1691 11| and, in the case of an excitable imagination like Cellini' 1692 13| valley, evidently full of excitement, who either had despatched 1693 14| for winter. It was very exciting at that season to roam the 1694 1| was the reply. "What!" exclaimed the Indian as he went out 1695 17| between the outside layers to exclude the air; for when the wind, 1696 14| and not to be carefully excluded from seven eighths of it, 1697 11| so, shutting my eyes, and excluding the motes by a skilfully 1698 1| that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.~ ~ 1699 4| into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think 1700 12| eat, drink, cohabit, void excrement and urine, and the like, 1701 18| vineyards. True, it is somewhat excrementitious in its character, and there 1702 18| or lungs or bowels, and excrements of all kinds. It is a truly 1703 3| occasionally when making excursions in the summer, and this 1704 10| the water. My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. 1705 6| laws are continually being executed. Next to us is not the workman 1706 13| and put his resolve into execution. He led me at once to the 1707 7| off as I lived, I was not exempted from the annual visitation 1708 4| than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind. 1709 1| that man obtains by his own exertions, has been from the first, 1710 18| spring the sun not only exerts an influence through the 1711 4| observe them. They are not exhalations like our daily colloquies 1712 6| and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose 1713 7| feathers - and that one exhibited a cock plucked and called 1714 6| affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I may 1715 7| seemed to have hardly any existance for him. He was about twenty-eight 1716 17| with the meadow, if any existed, might be proved by conveying 1717 1| garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without. 1718 1| supply of such a distant and exorbitant market; to keep yourself 1719 19| spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; 1720 14| multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et 1721 15| foundation. Great Looker! Great Expecter! to converse with whom was 1722 1| merely a squatter, and not expecting to cultivate so much again, 1723 5| before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of 1724 7| conceive of was a simple expediency, such as you might expect 1725 19| that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and 1726 18| untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not 1727 1| Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum,~ ~ 1728 19| youthful philosophers and experimentalists we are! There is not one 1729 5| the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing 1730 14| some god. The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever 1731 4| us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal 1732 1| States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are 1733 16| goose, as if determined to expose and disgrace this intruder 1734 13| breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there 1735 13| happened previous to the expulsion of the tyrant Christiern 1736 17| us this great work, which extends from earth even into the 1737 3| than it, in the midst of an extensive wood between that town and 1738 18| and many other words); externally a dry thin leaf, even as 1739 1| degree of cold which would extinguish the life of one exposed 1740 19| my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far 1741 15| gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church 1742 4| emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral. 1743 17| hundred men of Hyperborean extraction swoop down on to our pond 1744 19| another latitude, is not extravagant like the cow which kicks 1745 1| family; though these must be extremely partial and occasional in 1746 3| throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us 1747 19| Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos.~ ~ 1748 7| laughed and talked. Such an exuberance of animal spirits had he 1749 3| noon some sweet gum would exude from them. To my imagination 1750 16| eyes in the universe were eyed on him - for all the motions 1751 10| the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the 1752 17| surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for 1753 18| caught up from earth? Its eyry now some cliffy cloud.~ ~ 1754 18| dry thin leaf, even as the f and v are a pressed and 1755 1| Christ. "Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque bene 1756 7| before. Could he do without factories? I asked. He had worn the 1757 17| A factory-owner, bearing what depth I had 1758 9| Faginus astabat dum scyphus ante 1759 14| sweet. There are enough fagots and waste wood of all kinds 1760 11| without arithmetic, and failing so.~ ~ 1761 12| only investment that never fails. In the music of the harp 1762 3| we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' 1763 18| This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry 1764 5| bough suddenly fall like a fan to the ground, when there 1765 18| The ear may be regarded, fancifully, as a lichen, Umbilicaria, 1766 5| withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental 1767 1| mortariumque bene lavato. Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae 1768 13| winged cat" in one of the farm-houses in Lincoln nearest the pond, 1769 16| the river and put up at a farmhouse for the night, whence, having 1770 1| who have no means to build farmhouses at first according to their 1771 1| having taken medicine, and fasted for three days, all the 1772 7| and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker 1773 7| we had taken our journey fasting." Fearing that they would 1774 17| rope in the vain attempt to fathom their truly immeasurable 1775 17| water, sixty or seventy fathoms deep, four miles in breadth, 1776 12| who reposes without being fatigued. If you would avoid uncleanness, 1777 6| health with their decaying fatness. For my panacea, instead 1778 14| period. In these days of fatted cattle and waving grain-fields 1779 13| where the soil was never fattened with manure; the race is 1780 19| when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in 1781 12| gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied 1782 11| And Guy Faux of the state,~ ~ 1783 6| seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond 1784 7| taken our journey fasting." Fearing that they would be light-headed 1785 1| the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped, so that it was 1786 16| here; and in his ledger, Feb, 7th, 1743, Hezekiah Stratton 1787 18| morning after a cold night, February 24th, 1850, having gone 1788 5| resounding earth, drowning the feebler notes of other birds - think 1789 4| know of them, there are the feeblest efforts anywhere made to 1790 12| insectivorous fate. The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; 1791 13| having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all 1792 7| liked to have the little fellers about him."~ ~ 1793 7| at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet 1794 1| here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, 1795 5| was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds 1796 8| and chip dirt far away. Fellow-travellers as they rattled by compared 1797 13| whether it was a male or female, and so use the more common 1798 6| by us, appropriated and fenced in some way, and reclaimed 1799 7| I had often seen used as fencing stuff, standing or sitting 1800 15| ever lived. With him dwelt Fenda, his hospitable wife, who 1801 14| as tending ad terrorem ferarum - ad nocumentum forestae, 1802 1| and through the various fermentations thereafter, till I came 1803 1| cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What 1804 19| and ere he had put on the ferule and the head adorned with 1805 5| hilarious rules of their old festal tables, though their voices 1806 8| crops merely. We have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, 1807 19| man, as they sat round the festive board - may unexpectedly 1808 14| tropes are necessarily so far fetched, through slides and dumbwaiters, 1809 10| maples send forth a mass of fibrous red roots several feet long 1810 15| pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced 1811 6| his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination 1812 5| kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into 1813 1| purification at the end of every fifty-two years, in the belief that 1814 19| declared that "a soldier who fights in the ranks does not require 1815 1| discover the particular figure which this generation requires 1816 17| mottled internally by dark figures, shaped somewhat like a 1817 5| cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress - of patterns 1818 14| snow came. Green hickory finely split makes the woodchopper' 1819 18| sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors, 1820 1| themselves. The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace 1821 19| mention these things? When the finishing stroke was put to his work, 1822 15| had changed the pines into fir trees; wading to the tops 1823 14| had got a couple of old fire-dogs to keep the wood from the 1824 9| a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and 1825 5| country for seed. All day the fire-steed flies over the country, 1826 12| pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, 1827 10| fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those 1828 14| glory." I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts 1829 10| cleaner, handsomer, and firmer-fleshed than those in the river 1830 13| Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I saw that, though 1831 19| the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe 1832 1| fashion for two reasons: firstly, in order not to waste time 1833 12| and leaves the gun and fish-pole behind. The mass of men 1834 5| the Grand Banks and the fisheries. Who has not seen a salt 1835 17| with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let 1836 1| There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his 1837 1| wall in a space such as fitted him. He was at first bare 1838 15| A blue-robed man, whose fittest roof is the overarching 1839 1| before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, 1840 1| some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough. You will export 1841 5| distended, leakiest, and flabbiest paunched, that there be 1842 10| through which rushes and flags have pushed up. I used to 1843 1| charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop 1844 18| lobe, globe; also lap, flap, and many other words); 1845 15| launched himself off and flapped through the pines, spreading 1846 11| thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed fisherman. 1847 13| winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming 1848 4| flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not 1849 1| state-prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves 1850 14| against the upper, and was flattish, or perhaps slightly lenticular, 1851 16| over, were troubled with flatulency and had dreams; or I was 1852 11| under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds. Let 1853 5| For one of those fleet railroad shafts, and o'er~ ~ 1854 11| standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with 1855 18| soil and organic matter the fleshy fibre or cellular tissue. 1856 14| obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening 1857 5| All day the fire-steed flies over the country, stopping 1858 4| higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the 1859 5| the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, 1860 5| beneficent as that which floats over the farmer's fields, 1861 1| driving. It is said that a flood-tide, with a westerly wind, and 1862 16| separated from me only by the flooring, and she startled me each 1863 15| formed, through which I floundered, where the busy northwest 1864 15| or sometimes creeping and floundering thither on my hands and 1865 18| It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes 1866 18| sun gets higher, the most fluid portion, in its effort to 1867 1| There were some slight flurries of snow during the days 1868 13| sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the 1869 10| depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are 1870 14| burning the shells of the Unio fluviatilis, which our river affords, 1871 4| lecture to us? Alas! what with foddering the cattle and tending the 1872 11| the hardest woods in its folds, and the wild holly berries 1873 1| and cherish it with the fondness and enthusiasm of lovers - 1874 1| through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find 1875 1| appeared not so sad as foolish.~ ~ 1876 19| half so much courage as a foot-pad" - "that honor and religion 1877 5| pond, to which a narrow footpath led down the hill. In my 1878 10| left some trace of their footsteps. I have been surprised to 1879 10| little digging, which God forbid, it can be made to flow 1880 2| joy nor sorrow; nor your forc'd~ ~ 1881 1| speedy decay of the vital forces. Yet I find it not to be 1882 9| true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, 1883 5| low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once 1884 10| not only makes the best foreground in such a case, but, with 1885 15| life, and "fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," in some form 1886 14| ferarum - ad nocumentum forestae, etc.," to the frightening 1887 3| city, was brought up by a forester, and, growing up to maturity 1888 3| not get out sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and 1889 1| rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver 1890 18| morning all men's sins are forgiven. Such a day is a truce to 1891 1| and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.~ ~ 1892 1| at length one morning I forgot the rules, and scalded my 1893 11| proud, thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed 1894 1| wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, 1895 5| by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part, 1896 17| looked like a vast blue fort or Valhalla; but when they 1897 15| the last-uttered or the forth-coming jest. We made many a "bran 1898 2| Falsely exalted passive fortitude~ ~ 1899 14| I came to the same place forty-eight hours afterward, I found 1900 17| Pond, which contains about forty-one acres, and, like this, has 1901 18| flowers and fruit - not a fossil earth, but a living earth; 1902 6| not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we 1903 4| sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered 1904 12| contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten 1905 1| season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our 1906 1| shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay 1907 18| inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed 1908 18| The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum 1909 19| they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior 1910 19| significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.~ ~ 1911 19| most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost, 1912 7| such a basis of truth and frankness as the poor weak-headed 1913 15| to no institution in it, freeborn, ingenuus. Whichever way 1914 15| Brister's Hill, lived Brister Freeman, "a handy Negro," slave 1915 14| closely the morning after it freezes, you find that the greater 1916 6| another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important 1917 10| concern one who has not long frequented it or lived by its shore; 1918 7| effectually deterred from frequenting a man's house, by any kind 1919 10| visit it ever since. One who frequents it proposes to call it Virid 1920 14| fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most 1921 8| As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with 1922 3| within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within 1923 5| they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; 1924 14| Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put 1925 14| We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little 1926 12| I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, 1927 14| forestae, etc.," to the frightening of the game and the detriment 1928 6| Pond, and stoned it, and fringed it with pine woods; who 1929 16| selecting a suitable ear, frisk about in the same uncertain 1930 3| wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest 1931 7| morning's dew - and become frizzled and mangy in consequence; 1932 10| and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; 1933 19| the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streams and 1934 15| their farms"; who donned a frock instead of a professor's 1935 18| flowed into moulds which the fronds of waterplants have impressed 1936 1| to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst 1937 5| remote glen in the woods he fronts the elements incased in 1938 14| taste, much like that of a frost-bitten potato, and I found it better 1939 1| previously seen the snakes in frosty mornings in my path with 1940 7| sometimes partook of my frugal meal, and it was no interruption 1941 1| which alone can make leisure fruitful. "But," says one, "you do 1942 1| kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, 1943 9| Nec bella fuerunt,~ ~ 1944 1| wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar 1945 13| the passage of Webster's Fugitive-Slave Bill.~ ~ 1946 1| but merely failures to fulfil their engagements, because 1947 7| bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. 1948 11| or like fleets at sea, full-rigged, with wavy boughs, and rippling 1949 4| of this, even after the fullest dinner of meats and vegetables, 1950 10| the warmth of the sun is fully appreciated, to sit on a 1951 18| more purgative of winter fumes and indigestions. It convinces 1952 1| superfluous property as a fund in store against the future, 1953 1| mainly to the defraying of funeral expenses. But perhaps a 1954 11| ground, and more beautiful fungi adorn the stumps, like butterflies 1955 10| the house stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers 1956 13| that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out 1957 15| Wagons shot past with furious speed and crushing loads, 1958 18| bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is " 1959 1| vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; 1960 19| and let me feel for the furring. Do not depend on the putty. 1961 5| before you, and walk on into futurity.~ ~ 1962 18| globe, glb, the guttural g adds to the meaning the 1963 11| In thy plain russet gabardine dressed."~ ~ 1964 8| further experience also I gained: I said to myself, I will 1965 1| society seems to be the gainer by so doing, are we certain 1966 12| bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest 1967 8| On gala days the town fires its 1968 14| morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, 1969 19| tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything 1970 9| and never hesitated at a gap in a fence. I was even accustomed 1971 9| the outskirts, where long gaps in the line began to occur, 1972 1| are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt 1973 1| got through a knot-hole or gateway where his sledge load of 1974 3| lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a 1975 1| interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand 1976 16| here. I remember well one gaunt Nimrod who would catch up 1977 1| with my furniture?" - My gay butterfly is entangled in 1978 15| fathers and his youth. He gazed into the cellar from all 1979 1| curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun 1980 1| would have appeared in the Gazette with the earliest intelligence. 1981 1| at night. In the Indian gazettes a wigwam was the symbol 1982 5| mind which has reached the gelatinous, mildewy stage in the mortification 1983 14| cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow 1984 1| to retain the heat thus generated and absorbed.~ ~ 1985 12| purity and devotion. The generative energy, which, when we are 1986 13| their discharges. The waves generously rise and dash angrily, taking 1987 18| boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the 1988 1| Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque 1989 10| through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, 1990 17| and the far sight of the geologist to convince the unsuspecting 1991 19| Indies, of the Hon. Mr.- - of Georgia or of Massachusetts, all 1992 8| kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that 1993 15| But this small village, germ of something more, why did 1994 14| lathing overhead, made a bold gesture thitherward; and straightway, 1995 1| while he is admiring the gewgaws upon the mantelpiece, and 1996 13| either side of him like ghastly trophies at his saddle-bow, 1997 5| thought. It reminded me of ghouls and idiots and insane howlings. 1998 16| not know whether they were giants or pygmies. I took this 1999 1| irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise 2000 1| heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in 2001 9| which perhaps was improperly gilded, and this I trust a soldier 2002 10| will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; 2003 13| Lincoln nearest the pond, Mr. Gilian Baker's. When I called to 2004 14| Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world 2005 4| four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella - 2006 1| was born, a silk parasol, gilt-framed looking-glass, and a patent 2007 5| French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered 2008 19| southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely that is not 2009 19| pray, would a man hunt giraffes if he could? Snipes and