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3010 19| ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual 3011 5| elements had taken up and modulated and echoed from vale to 3012 12| here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence 3013 1| within a shelter, as the mole has its bed of grass and 3014 14| The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling 3015 9| Nor wars did men molest,~ ~ 3016 12| congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest 3017 1| though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding 3018 1| valid objection urged by Momus against the house which 3019 3| I am monarch of all I survey,~ ~ 3020 1| full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller' 3021 1| traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. 3022 7| God as if they enjoyed a monopoly of the subject, who could 3023 10| irregular enough not to be monotonous. I have in my mind's eye 3024 1| men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor. They 3025 10| distorted withal, produces a monstrous effect, making fit studies 3026 4| Tittle-Tol-Tan,' to appear in monthly parts; a great rush; don' 3027 1| distraction from my wonted moods, I foolishly thought. While 3028 3| and to be seen only in moonless nights by him. Such was 3029 16| and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by 3030 19| is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time 3031 12| which I might devour, and no morsel could have been too savage 3032 1| bene lavato. Farinam in mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, 3033 1| depsticium sic facito. Manus mortariumque bene lavato. Farinam in 3034 1| the bank where they are mortgaged. The man who has actually 3035 5| gelatinous, mildewy stage in the mortification of all healthy and courageous 3036 1| Each stick was carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump, 3037 17| looked like a venerable moss-grown and hoary ruin, built of 3038 11| Which some mossy fruit trees yield~ ~ 3039 1| laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and 3040 17| over all, it is beautifully mottled internally by dark figures, 3041 7| be proud to have for the motto of my cabin those lines 3042 5| heads peering, above the mould-board which is turning down other 3043 10| my face, I came upon the mouldering wreck of a boat, the sides 3044 13| glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making 3045 1| wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the 3046 19| and he sat on one of its mounds to peel the stick. Before 3047 1| plains, or climbing the mountain-tops. But lo! men have become 3048 17| If he is surrounded by mountainous circumstances, an Achillean 3049 15| which his father had cut and mounted, feeling for the iron hook 3050 18| reliance in the fields of air; mounting again and again with its 3051 3| As were the mounts whereon his flocks~ ~ 3052 1| that she "had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighborhood 3053 18| perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their 3054 1| acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and woodlot! The 3055 1| have been the custom of the Mucclasse Indians? "When a town celebrates 3056 10| market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful 3057 10| stands like a fungus in a muckheap, chambers for men horses, 3058 12| the hunter has a taste for mud-turtles, muskrats, and other such 3059 10| throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with 3060 18| trusting to break their fast in muddier pools. A "plump" of ducks 3061 13| and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the 3062 5| men's blood, I bear the muffled tone of their engine bell 3063 9| thus late in a dark and muggy night, when my feet felt 3064 6| more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, 3065 18| cotton-grass, cat-tails, mulleins, johnswort, hardhack, meadowsweet, 3066 14| oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, 3067 18| material must have been greatly multiplied since railroads were invented. 3068 1| was handed down to us by a mummy.~ ~ 3069 19| himself is? Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark 3070 7| storage of wines and other munitions of peace, appear to be extravagantly 3071 3| read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, 3072 15| hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family - New-England 3073 15| mirth and resound with the murmur of much sober talk, making 3074 1| genuine leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that 3075 1| labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, 3076 8| between his work, not as a mushroom, but partially risen out 3077 8| there were several bands of musicians, it sounded as if all the 3078 15| spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended 3079 1| his tail in the trap. The muskrat will gnaw his third leg 3080 1| enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest 3081 5| American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all 3082 10| and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks 3083 15| deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography 3084 18| Eurus ad Auroram Nabathaeaque regna recessit,~ ~ 3085 18| withdrew to Aurora and the Nabathean kingdom,~ ~ 3086 1| a patent new coffee-mill nailed to an oak sapling, all told. 3087 11| is dazzled and tempted by nameless other wild forbidden fruits, 3088 3| man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he 3089 1| which had grown out of the nape of his neck - I have pitied 3090 5| heart-leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under 3091 15| here was that of a ditcher. Napoleon went to St. Helena; Quoil 3092 16| you think I am ever caught napping at such an hour, and that 3093 17| hill is not highest at its narrowest part.~ ~ 3094 1| any, if you inquire more narrowly you will find have some 3095 1| confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, 3096 19| of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe 3097 1| damus qua simus origine nati.~ ~ 3098 13| chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite 3099 13| impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been 3100 17| luncheon in stout fear - naughts on the dry oak leaves on 3101 3| lichen-covered apple trees, nawed by rabbits, showing what 3102 7| Ne looke for entertainment 3103 15| we were there. The very nearness of the fire but cooled our 3104 11| the beech, which has so neat a hole and beautifully lichen-painted, 3105 14| did not read the name of Nebuchadnezzar on them, I picked out its 3106 15| watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower 3107 9| Nec bella fuerunt,~ ~ 3108 2| Of your necessitated temperance,~ ~ 3109 18| time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which 3110 10| Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the 3111 1| so good an occasion for neighborliness than from any necessity, 3112 1| discover new satellites to Neptune, and not detect the motes 3113 15| skipping. It fairly overcame my Nervii. I had just sunk my head 3114 19| to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth 3115 14| The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every 3116 1| the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black 3117 5| like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada, that occupy an outside 3118 18| ineffectually perhaps, like a new-born instinct, and for a short 3119 19| I thought of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a more 3120 1| into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much. 3121 1| Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next 3122 13| Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent 3123 1| been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on 3124 19| source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or 3125 1| our beds, which are our night-clothes, robbing the nests and breasts 3126 5| that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds 3127 7| in the pond safely till nightfall - loving to dwell long upon 3128 3| or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that 3129 13| by some slight cur which nimbly threaded the wood, and might 3130 16| remember well one gaunt Nimrod who would catch up a leaf 3131 18| bank of the river near the Nine-Acre-Corner bridge, standing on the 3132 | ninety 3133 1| be a light one and do not nip me in a vital part. But 3134 1| sun, would perhaps have nipped his race in the bud if he 3135 15| encountered many a blustering and nipping wind, for nowhere has it 3136 11| knee as in the palaces of nobles, and looked out from its 3137 14| ad terrorem ferarum - ad nocumentum forestae, etc.," to the 3138 15| fell again, and he began to nod. I too felt a slumberous 3139 5| birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until 3140 18| north in the wake of their noisier cousins.~ ~ 3141 1| inconvenience of many and noisy neighbors, and perhaps a 3142 10| Such is the poverty of our nomenclature. What right had the unclean 3143 1| better be made at home at a nominal cost, where is he so poor 3144 8| patremfamilias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet), from~ ~ 3145 3| I have seen makes sheer nonsense of the passage - "When you 3146 15| occupies what was the chimney nook, and a sweet-scented black 3147 1| eye to the unfrequented nooks and corners of the farm; 3148 1| peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number 3149 6| cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and 3150 14| it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made 3151 18| two rods wide along the northerly and westerly sides, and 3152 16| the previous winter - a Norwegian winter for them, for the 3153 5| fire and smoke from his nostrils (what kind of winged horse 3154 19| gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; 3155 15| for she had a loud and notable voice. At length, in the 3156 1| improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand 3157 15| woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there 3158 10| weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little 3159 6| pipe. Nay, I was frequently notified of the passage of a traveller 3160 1| Men have an indistinct notion that if they keep up this 3161 8| angel. Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us 3162 13| was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had 3163 5| amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many 3164 4| aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, 3165 17| the pearls, the animalized nuclei or crystals of the Walden 3166 3| Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not 3167 14| were "considered as great nuisances by the old forest law, and 3168 1| portions of their bodies still numb and inflexible, waiting 3169 14| morning, when they were numbed with cold, I swept some 3170 9| ether, it only producing numbness and insensibility to pain - 3171 12| the opinion of Chaucer's nun, who~ ~ 3172 2| Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue~ ~ 3173 17| horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed 3174 13| and still their only care, obedient to their mother and their 3175 3| universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; 3176 17| formed the solid base of an obelisk designed to pierce the clouds. 3177 18| of hybrid product, which obeys half way the law of currents, 3178 19| ice. Southern customers objected to its blue color, which 3179 1| philosophy of India. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, 3180 6| to offer sacrifices and oblations to their ancestors. It is 3181 1| lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor 3182 15| half an hour sufficed to obliterate the tracks of the last traveller. 3183 14| already within the ice narrow oblong perpendicular bubbles about 3184 12| subject - I care not how obscene my words are - but because 3185 1| line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets 3186 19| and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity 3187 5| his mark; and when this observance has made the circuit of 3188 10| same is true, as far as my observation goes, of White Pond.~ ~ 3189 1| times watching from the observatory of some cliff or tree, to 3190 4| essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature 3191 17| surrounded by mountains, observes, "If we could have seen 3192 8| of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should 3193 1| along in spite of every obstacle. Some things are really 3194 1| business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing 3195 1| greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts 3196 1| I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the 3197 11| the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which 3198 14| or in thin flakes, as if occupying slight cleavages. The beauty 3199 7| annual visitation which occurs, methinks, about the first 3200 1| were with his left hand at odd hours in the summer; and 3201 9| belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might 3202 3| not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag 3203 6| to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll 3204 3| requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its 3205 7| was never felt to be an offence against hospitality, but 3206 1| modes, only not state-prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, 3207 12| clean a diet as will not offend the imagination; but this, 3208 12| Hindoo lawgiver, however offensive it may be to modern taste. 3209 5| sticks as their badge of office. But their dogs, where are 3210 12| Such is oftenest the young man's introduction 3211 5| is our common dwelling. Oh-o-o-o-o that I never had been bor-r-r-r-n! 3212 19| takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for 3213 13| small ants is recorded by Olaus Magnus, in which the small 3214 11| live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new 3215 5| crying, to comfort one. An old-fashioned man would have lost his 3216 14| his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, 3217 1| dish of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) which I gathered in my 3218 4| family" papers, or browsing "Olive Branches" here in New England. 3219 1| architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. 3220 3| are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the 3221 19| inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because 3222 15| slave of Squire Cummings once-there where grow still the apple 3223 5| ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r--oonk, tr-r-r-oonk! and straightway 3224 15| visible, where once a spring oozed; now dry and tearless grass; 3225 18| as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground. It is 3226 13| a swamp and of a brook, oozing from under Brister's Hill, 3227 18| severe a trial. It commonly opens about the first of April, 3228 14| each, in its degree, had operated like a burning-glass on 3229 1| fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as 3230 12| prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven. I would fain keep 3231 8| vendacem, non emacem esse oportet), from~ ~ 3232 18| the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek 3233 6| lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, 3234 1| obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over 3235 1| so rash. When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment 3236 8| to the city to attend the oratorios. The nighthawk circled overhead 3237 15| children of night, such a dusky orb as never rose on Concord 3238 14| might have been legally ordered off, but I am not aware 3239 12| which belongs to the lower orders of creation; yet with every 3240 1| wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of 3241 1| his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, 3242 3| tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures 3243 18| the still finer soil and organic matter the fleshy fibre 3244 18| rapidly yet perfectly the sand organizes itself as it flows, using 3245 1| sun-shades, and a hundred other oriental things, which we are taking 3246 7| There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected 3247 1| documenta damus qua simus origine nati.~ ~ 3248 5| night. Not even a lark or an oriole, those mild plantation birds, 3249 18| spring fire - "et primitus oritur herba imbribus primoribus 3250 17| inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and 3251 1| your bawbles and find them ornamental. The cart before the horse 3252 10| white type alto-relievo. The ornamented grounds of villas which 3253 6| not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have 3254 9| thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the 3255 18| to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve 3256 4| who, like cormorants and ostriches, can digest all sorts of 3257 13| hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He 3258 1| drawing-room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun-shades, and a hundred 3259 19| have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than 3260 | ours 3261 8| But what right had I to oust johnswort and the rest, 3262 5| never seen such a dull and out-of-the-way place; the folks were all 3263 9| thoughts, leaving only my outer man at the helm, or even 3264 12| trusting that they would soon outgrow it. No humane being, past 3265 10| occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and the smaller intermediate 3266 6| kept herself young always, outlived so many old Parrs in her 3267 6| most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances 3268 1| for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and mortal coil. 3269 16| for light and to be dogs outright and run freely in the streets; 3270 18| the earth expresses itself outwardly in leaves, it so labors 3271 1| the encumbrances sometimes outweigh the value of the farm, so 3272 1| law, which no man can ever outwit, and with regard to the 3273 18| towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.~ ~ 3274 15| whose fittest roof is the overarching sky which reflects his serenity. 3275 15| without skipping. It fairly overcame my Nervii. I had just sunk 3276 18| out through the snow and overflowing it where no sand was to 3277 3| just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered 3278 8| the elm tree tops which overhang the village. This was one 3279 14| coins poured from a bag, one overlapping another, or in thin flakes, 3280 14| proprietor and travellers had overlooked. When chestnuts were ripe 3281 10| on such a height as this, overlooking the pond, and study the 3282 1| mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness 3283 1| is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one 3284 15| now harvest time. It was overrun with Roman wormwood and 3285 1| will be good ventures. To oversee all the details yourself 3286 17| Achillean shore, whose peaks overshadow and are reflected in his 3287 14| large tree, which almost overshadowed it, was, when in flower, 3288 1| degree to which the barn overshadows the house. This town is 3289 1| themselves for it; and for these oversights successive generations have 3290 6| cellar.... I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who 3291 3| Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and 3292 11| thistle. But they fight at an overwhelming disadvantage - living, John 3293 1| hours; and every family owned one, or its apartment in 3294 1| they may become the real owners of their farms, which commonly 3295 1| of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that 3296 4| confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever? Cannot students 3297 8| lighted me to hoe beans, pacing slowly backward and forward 3298 1| ashamed to see his furniture packed in a cart and going up country 3299 10| it were a large decayed pad, with its veins. It was 3300 8| his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string 3301 11| than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; 3302 14| smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen 3303 9| otherwise it would often be painful to bear - without affecting 3304 1| and a row of them cut or painted on the bark of a tree signified 3305 1| in this country, as the painter knows, are the most unpretending, 3306 12| We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our 3307 12| been inspired through the palate, that some berries which 3308 14| nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at 3309 8| strains seemed as far away as Palestine, and reminded me of a march 3310 5| were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main - a 3311 6| decaying fatness. For my panacea, instead of one of those 3312 1| centuries before Christ. "Panem depsticium sic facito. Manus 3313 5| suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal 3314 1| with new clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils 3315 1| broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. Often if an accident happens 3316 5| the Peterboro' Hills, or panting up the western slope of 3317 14| should use; at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse, 3318 1| strip off three pairs of pants and two pairs of stockings 3319 4| once? - not be sucking the pap of "neutral family" papers, 3320 7| morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man - he had so suitable 3321 18| all alive and covered with papillae. The largest pond is as 3322 5| fidelity and sagacity are below par now. They will slink back 3323 8| and expression, to serve a parable-maker one day. It was on the whole 3324 19| will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as 3325 18| vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our 3326 1| not the Graces, nor the Parcee, but Fashion. She spins 3327 19| known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be 3328 1| life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts 3329 7| his corded wood, he would pare it away to a slender stake 3330 16| dusk to nibble the potato parings which I had thrown out, 3331 14| and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer 3332 19| is? Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and 3333 14| Isle of Man, tell what is parliamentary in the kitchen?~ ~ 3334 14| the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve 3335 15| English soldiers, prisoners on parole, when she was away, and 3336 6| always, outlived so many old Parrs in her day, and fed her 3337 1| Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips."~ ~ 3338 7| my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that 3339 17| would catch some of the particles carried through by the current.~ ~ 3340 16| another has told me the particulars of the hunt in which his 3341 1| either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would 3342 1| it being understood that partitions are run through those cellars 3343 7| guest came he sometimes partook of my frugal meal, and it 3344 1| and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the 3345 6| was very sure I liked it passably well; I was not joking. 3346 1| exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in 3347 17| object of interest to all passers. I have noticed that a portion 3348 1| gratification of every appetite and passion whatever. A general amnesty 3349 2| Falsely exalted passive fortitude~ ~ 3350 5| some distant cove the same password repeated, where the next 3351 18| transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. 3352 1| out the Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous 3353 10| remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through 3354 18| Maker of this earth but patented a leaf. What Champollion 3355 17| drink; impressively, even pathetically, wise, to foresee the heat 3356 15| Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the 3357 5| morning mist, and only the patriarch is not under the pond, but 3358 1| treacherously by a young Patrick that neighbor Seeley, an 3359 19| the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, 3360 13| Fight! Two killed on the patriots' side, and Luther Blanchard 3361 4| Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is 3362 12| The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance 3363 6| society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every 3364 1| mortarium indito, aquae paulatim addito, subigitoque pulchre. 3365 5| leakiest, and flabbiest paunched, that there be no mistake; 3366 5| liquor to distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication 3367 8| our contemporary. When I paused to lean on my hoe, these 3368 5| with which you may sweep or pave the streets, and split your 3369 10| shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard 3370 7| slinks into some hole in the pavement.~ ~ 3371 10| mystery to me. I detect the paver. If the name was not derived 3372 10| rounded white stones like paving-stones, excepting one or two short 3373 1| than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast 3374 3| across the pond from this peak toward the Sudbury meadows, 3375 1| small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much 3376 13| species on the trunk of a pear tree," adds that "'this 3377 17| stones, as if they were the pearls, the animalized nuclei or 3378 14| world the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, 3379 17| that they must be cutting peat in a bog. So they came and 3380 10| action of the waves, like a pebble; yet the smallest are made 3381 3| the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count 3382 7| not but notice some of the peculiarities of my visitors. Girls and 3383 1| shells they are, and not any peculiarity in their surfaces merely, 3384 18| I fancied that they were peculiarly of the ancient race that 3385 7| very derivation of the word pecunia. If an ox were his property, 3386 4| village do-not stop short at a pedagogue, a parson, a sexton, a parish 3387 2| Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue~ ~ 3388 15| gave him to the world - he peddled first her wares, afterwards, 3389 15| declares, his brains. These he peddles still, prompting God and 3390 1| streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it. There is not a nail 3391 3| and the Infanta, and Don Pedro and Seville and Granada, 3392 19| on one of its mounds to peel the stick. Before he had 3393 6| or accidentally. One has peeled a willow wand, woven it 3394 7| which he had felled, and, peeling off the inner bark, roll 3395 10| bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" 3396 7| And Peleus lives, son of Aeacus, among 3397 19| are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we 3398 10| still its water is green and pellucid as ever. Not an intermitting 3399 6| their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight 3400 5| not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the 3401 1| never chewed it, that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers 3402 14| cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly 3403 5| whistle of the locomotive penetrates my woods summer and winter, 3404 1| and had received a Rodgers penknife from his father? Which would 3405 1| of the great. They were Penn, Howard, and Mrs. Fry. Every 3406 15| by which be preserved a pennisular relation to me; thus, with 3407 3| seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is 3408 3| were worth the postage. The penny-post is, commonly, an institution 3409 1| absolutely necessary. I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living 3410 18| its companion, and still peopling the woods with the sound 3411 10| shaped like the last, but peppered on the sides with small 3412 10| green another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere. 3413 10| over it without rippling it perceptibly. When the surface is considerably 3414 5| threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white pine 3415 10| after all its ripples. It is perennially young, and I may stand and 3416 1| cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut 3417 19| disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his 3418 1| man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have 3419 12| endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.~ ~ 3420 11| with its loose golden vest, perfumed like the first; the beech, 3421 11| far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, 3422 10| this fluctuation, whether periodical or not, appears thus to 3423 17| the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating 3424 1| generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have 3425 4| larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor 3426 1| is the untold fate of La Perouse; - universal science to 3427 1| with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves 3428 11| With questions art never perplexed,~ ~ 3429 9| By night, of course, the perplexity is infinitely greater. In 3430 5| spoil it, and putting, the perseverance of the saints to the blush? 3431 1| soul and life, I would say, Persevere, even if the world call 3432 18| Persidaque, et radiis juga subdita 3433 18| clouds. Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor 3434 1| be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, 3435 13| members. They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifested 3436 1| however, one of them says pertinently that a great part of their 3437 3| fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let 3438 12| spirit can for the time pervade and control every member 3439 17| quiet parlor of the fishes, pervaded by a softened light as through 3440 10| the ribs of the bloated pest?~ ~ 3441 5| them barking behind the Peterboro' Hills, or panting up the 3442 1| the Neva, would sweep St. Petersburg from the face of the earth.~ ~ 3443 1| respected class? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels 3444 1| about him getting good. When Phaeton, wishing to prove his heavenly 3445 1| pyramids to be the tombs of the Pharaohs were fed on garlic, and 3446 5| of this once wild Indian pheasant is certainly the most remarkable 3447 16| springlike days, a wiry summery phebe from the woodside. They 3448 14| for fuel in New York and Philadelphia "nearly equals, and sometimes 3449 1| betrayed into any of these philanthropies, do not let your left hand 3450 1| a multitude of sins. The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind 3451 1| only, perhaps, her best philanthropists.~ ~ 3452 1| merchants, from Hanno and the Phoenicians down to our day; in fine, 3453 7| alone heard some news from Phthia?~ ~ 3454 7| come creeping out over the piazza for all inhabitants a ridiculous 3455 11| had made one cast over the pickerelweed, standing up to my middle 3456 1| merely, which makes them picturesque; and equally interesting 3457 14| winter day with sliding this piecemeal across the pond, nearly 3458 1| have reached a friendly pier - there is the untold fate 3459 8| Roman wormwood - that's pigweed - that's sorrel - that's 3460 17| armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described 3461 1| must everywhere build on piles of your own driving. It 3462 4| three selectmen, because our Pilgrim forefathers got through 3463 7| philosophers; in short, all honest pilgrims, who came out to the woods 3464 11| half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and 3465 6| What is the pill which will keep us well, 3466 1| on one leg on the tops of pillars - even these forms of conscious 3467 14| the floor served for my pillow at night; yet I did not 3468 1| in person; to be at once pilot and captain, and owner and 3469 9| unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons 3470 13| crevice? I suspect that Pilpay & Co. have put animals to 3471 5| first season. Its broad pinnate tropical leaf was pleasant 3472 18| everlasting, goldenrods, pinweeds, and graceful wild grasses, 3473 1| get smoked and to have a piny flavor, I tried flour also; 3474 8| rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making 3475 8| that's sorrel - that's piper-grass - have at him, chop him 3476 10| fine grass or roots, of pipewort perhaps, from half an inch 3477 18| and chirruping and vocal pirouetting and gurgling sounds that 3478 10| fact is advertised - this piscine murder will out - and from 3479 7| the woods with a pocket pistol, firing salutes to himself 3480 13| the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who 3481 1| their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, 3482 17| wont to invite me to saw pit-fashion with them, I standing underneath.~ ~ 3483 1| All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque. It is only 3484 13| of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently 3485 8| pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according 3486 18| was eternal spring, and placid zephyrs with warm~ ~ 3487 16| to the nearest twig and, placing them under their claws, 3488 17| its shores alone, I made a plan of White Pond, which contains 3489 1| obliged to straighten with a plane.~ ~ 3490 3| white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings 3491 5| of cars moving off with planetary motion - or, rather, like 3492 7| the other, it being only planks laid a foot from the ground 3493 12| head, and he found himself planning and contriving it against 3494 3| imagination. The low shrub oak plateau to which the opposite shore 3495 1| knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug 3496 17| hauled off on to an ice platform, and raised by grappling 3497 1| even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, 3498 4| no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten 3499 18| must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped.~ ~ 3500 14| the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed 3501 6| Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long 3502 1| of my axe, and we chatted pleasantly over the chips which I had 3503 15| who told fortunes, yet pleasantly-large, round, and black, blacker 3504 3| that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the 3505 16| if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula 3506 15| world behind us; for he was pledged to no institution in it, 3507 3| those parts near to the Pleiades or the Hyades, to Aldebaran 3508 8| not deal with a man thus plodding ever, leaning on a hoe or 3509 15| children's hands, hi front-yard plots - now standing by wallsides