A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851Penguin, 01.12.1993 - 368 Seiten Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... mind the quality the immortality of my youthful life- but in memory is the only relation to it " ( 66 ) . That Thoreau was reading Wordsworth in these years merely con- firms the deepening of his commitment to the redemptive power of ...
... mind the quality the immortality of my youthful life- but in memory is the only relation to it " ( 66 ) . That Thoreau was reading Wordsworth in these years merely con- firms the deepening of his commitment to the redemptive power of ...
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... mind of man with all its faculties to inhabit " ( 201 ) . On November 1st , he advises himself , " See not with the eye of science - which is barren " ( 276 ) . And on December 25th , employing a famous distinction derived from Kant and ...
... mind of man with all its faculties to inhabit " ( 201 ) . On November 1st , he advises himself , " See not with the eye of science - which is barren " ( 276 ) . And on December 25th , employing a famous distinction derived from Kant and ...
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... mind of God . This is the cosmic view that Thoreau hopes to achieve in his Journal , through slowly , incrementally , building up a vast inventory of perspectives . In this way , his empirical observations are always implic- itly ...
... mind of God . This is the cosmic view that Thoreau hopes to achieve in his Journal , through slowly , incrementally , building up a vast inventory of perspectives . In this way , his empirical observations are always implic- itly ...
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... mind to tax my ingenuity - I thought often & seri- ously of picking huckleberries - that surely I could do , and its small profits might suffice " ( 115 ) . During this same month , he was finding " some advantage in being the humblest ...
... mind to tax my ingenuity - I thought often & seri- ously of picking huckleberries - that surely I could do , and its small profits might suffice " ( 115 ) . During this same month , he was finding " some advantage in being the humblest ...
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... Mind . Berkeley : Uni- versity of California Press , 1986 . Rossi , William . " The Journal , Self - Culture , and the Genesis of ' Walking , ' " Thoreau Quarterly 16 ( Summer / Fall 1984 ) : 138-55 . xxii SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER ...
... Mind . Berkeley : Uni- versity of California Press , 1986 . Rossi , William . " The Journal , Self - Culture , and the Genesis of ' Walking , ' " Thoreau Quarterly 16 ( Summer / Fall 1984 ) : 138-55 . xxii SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER ...
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