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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... observations from his walks . The Journal was , to use a famous phrase from Walden , Thoreau's " morning work , " and it proceeded rhyth- mically with his afternoon walks . These activities fed one another , and , in their reciprocity ...
... observations from his walks . The Journal was , to use a famous phrase from Walden , Thoreau's " morning work , " and it proceeded rhyth- mically with his afternoon walks . These activities fed one another , and , in their reciprocity ...
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... life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
... life and nature because its observations were always made in the present , and it could preserve such moments for later consideration . That this process of keeping time was for Thoreau a form of art , INTRODUCTION xi.
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... observations . During this year , he read Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle , William Bartram's Travels , and the work of other naturalists such as Kalm , Cuvier , Agassiz , and Gould . A bi- ography of Linnaeus also absorbed him during ...
... observations . During this year , he read Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle , William Bartram's Travels , and the work of other naturalists such as Kalm , Cuvier , Agassiz , and Gould . A bi- ography of Linnaeus also absorbed him during ...
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... observations surprise him , as indicated by a passage written on September 12th : " I can hardly believe that there is so great a diffirence between one year & another as my journal shows . The 11th of this month last year the river was ...
... observations surprise him , as indicated by a passage written on September 12th : " I can hardly believe that there is so great a diffirence between one year & another as my journal shows . The 11th of this month last year the river was ...
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... observations of nature , these observations always implicitly belong to a quest for truth , for knowl- edge of the " higher laws " to which Thoreau aspires in Walden . Thoreau believed that his Journal could ultimately provide , in the ...
... observations of nature , these observations always implicitly belong to a quest for truth , for knowl- edge of the " higher laws " to which Thoreau aspires in Walden . Thoreau believed that his Journal could ultimately provide , in the ...
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