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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of t... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’s... ...ithin the plain Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks. CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER “B... ...Grass ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives 6 AWeekontheConcordandMe... ...d, where they hunted and fished, and it is still perennial grass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to ye... ...e hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concord, for I love to quote so good author ity, “rises in the south part ... ...Sudbury and Wayland, where it is sometimes called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Ass... ...arlisle, and through Billerica, emp ties into the Merrimack at Lowell. In Concord it is, in sum mer, from four to fifteen feet deep, and from one hu...

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...vil and ecclesiastical law,— a work pleasing in Paradise because promoting concord between the two authorities. 16 Peter Lombard, a theologian of the... ... with love, so saw I the glorious wheel move, and render voice to voice in concord and in sweetness which cannot be known save there where joy becomes... ...- forth in my diffuse speech Francis and Poverty for these lov- ers. Their concord and their glad semblances made love, and wonder, and sweet regard t... ... the poor man of God had been narrated to me broke the silence among those concordant deities, and said, “Since one straw is threshed, since its seed ... ...top of every creature, through not awaiting light, fell 1 An image of the concordant will of the Just, and of the unity of Justice under the Empire. ... ...hts moving their flamelets to the words, just as the wink- ing of the eyes concords. CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO XXI. O XXI. O XXI. O XXI. O XXI. Ascent... ...lace on high.” 5 And I heard, “By human understanding, and by authorities concordant with it, thy sovran love looks unto God; but say, further, if th...

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... for these two lovers Take thou henceforward in my speech diffuse. Their concord and their joyous semblances, The love, the wonder, and the sweet ... ...ing in happiness from care to care. Then broke the silence of those saints concordant The light in which the admirable life Of God’s own mendicant... ...t I beheld both of those blessed lights, Even as the winking of the eyes concords, Moving unto the words their little flames. 330 Longfellow P P P ... ... all other edict.” And I heard say: “By human intellect And by authority concordant with it, Of all thy loves reserve for God the highest. But say...

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... bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.... ...ther it cannot be improved as well as not. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants... ...at every neighbor can point to him. I doubt if there are three such men in Concord. What has been said of the merchants, that a very large majority, e... ... I intend to build me a house which will surpass any on the main street in Concord in grandeur and luxury, as soon as it pleases me as much and will c... ...sient charac ter, I believe that that was doing better than any farmer in Concord did that year. The next year I did better still, for I spaded up ... ...nomical and social arrangements. I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the be... ...ts for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and indepen dence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and c... ...r selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind ... ...the shore of a small pond, about a mile and a half south of the village of Concord and somewhat higher than it, in the midst of an extensive wood betw...

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...Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859. I TRUST THAT YOU will pa... ... class is, and tenfold more so. He was like the best of those who stood at Concord Bridge once, on Lexington Common, and on Bunker Hill, only he was f...

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...wners’ deeds, as it were in some faraway field on the confines of the actual Concord, where her juris diction ceases, and the idea which the word Con... ...mirable and shining family had settled there in that part of the land called Concord, un known to me—to whom the sun was servant—who had not gone int... ...ancy. If it were not for such families as this, I think I should move out of Concord. We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeo...

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...ills. Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair,—apples not of Dis- cord, but Concord! Yet not so rare but that the homeliest may have a share. Painted b... ...er-Eating; the Frozen-Thawed (gelato-soluta), good only in that state; the Concord Apple, possibly the same with the Musketa-quidensis; the Assabet Ap...

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...unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with ...

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... It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles ...

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...ceivest not gladly, Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, The... ...hose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway’st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap T...

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... winds have sung me; Many birds from many forests, Oft have sung me lays n concord Waves of sea, and ocean billows, Music from the many waters, Music ... ...f each birch tree Sits a golden cuckoo calling, And the three sing, all in concord: “Love! O Love! the first one calleth; Sings the second, Suitor! Su... ... stars were sprinkled. Then again sings wise Wipunen, Sings in miracles of concord, Sings in magic tones of wisdom, Never was there heard such singing... ... floor resound thy praises 222 The Kalevala Till the floor guests sing in concord; Nor the windows join the chorus Till the window guests have spoken... ...hame and collar, Seven bluebirds, seven cuckoos, Sing thy wedding march in concord. “Be no longer full of sorrow, Dry thy tears, thou bride of beauty,... ... dwelling Of my childhood’s friend and brother, Where the portals spake in concord, And the hills and valleys answered, This their saddened song and e... ... lacking heroes, Cannot play this harp of magic, Cannot touch the notes of concord! Give to me this thing or beauty, Hither bring the harp of fish bon... ...Played the instrument of wonder, 384 The Kalevala But it did not speak in concord, Did not sing the notes of joyance. Spake the ancient Wainamoinen: ... ...rp to Pohya, There to find a skillful player That can touch the strings in concord.” Then they sailed to Sariola, To Pohyola took the wonder, There to...

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...doctrine is for a state, in order that men may dwell together in peace and concord; and how many and how great causes of disturbance and crime are the...

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...d people, and so long as those that ought to be the preachers of peace and concord shall continue with all their art and strength to excite men to arm...

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...ard freedom. These are the principles that in a house create love, in a city concord, among nations peace, teaching a man gratitude towards God and ch...

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...y, that hill and valley rings. O shame to men! Devil with Devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men onely disagree Of Creatures rational, though under hop... ...es high; No voice exempt, no voice but well could joine Melodious part, such concord is in Heav’n. Thee Father first they sung Omnipotent, Immutable... ...nd Of such commotion, such as to set forth Great things by small, If Natures concord broke, Among the Constellations warr were sprung, Two Planets rus... ...0 Will arrogate Dominion undeserv’d Over his brethren, and quite dispossess Concord and law of Nature from the Earth; Hunting (and Men not Beasts sha...

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...watchwords Faith, Love, and Labour, and by their light he established that concord in his own life without which the concord of the universe remains i...

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...selves to do. FURST. No, not fulfilled. The work is but begun: Courage and concord firm, we need them both; For, be assured, the king will make all sp...

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...anterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 57 one of the Shaker brethren, to Concord, where they were published in the New Hampshire Patriot. Meantime...

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...ut? Oh, no, no!—so go home at once, now, John, to your odious old woods of Concord! Go home to your woods, old owl—go! Y ou won’t! Oh, poh, poh, don’t... ...or, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog. Cool, now—cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of your crowing, ol...

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...ed; that who seeks a treasure must not speak; and the like,—I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne. Is it otherwise in ... ...e. In the morning I awake and find the old world, wife, babes, and mother, Concord and Boston, the dear old spiritual world and even the dear old devi... ...e must reconcile the contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absur- dities into our thinking and speech. No sente...

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...ns this auspicious hour! So may the Trojan and the T yrian line In lasting concord from this day combine. Thou, Bacchus, god of joys and friendly chee... ...own; As both of us our birth from Troy derive, So let our kindred lines in concord live, And both in acts of equal friendship strive. Our fortunes, go...

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...d through all the choir, One voice, one measure ran, that perfect seem’d The concord of their song. “Are these I hear The Divine Comedy of Dante Pu...

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...ith thee longer, take at large The rovers’ titles—Poverty and Francis. Their concord and glad looks, wonder and love, And sweet regard gave birth to h...

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...lk infuse, That in their hearts his words may fructify; By this a virtuous concord they did choose, And all contentions then began to die; The Princes... ...ard vile beside, False to his faith and country, dares reply; And speak of concord with yon men of pride, By your good leave, Sir King, here shall he ...

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...lk infuse, That in their hearts his words may fructify; By this a virtuous concord they did choose, And all contentions then began to die; The Princes... ...ard vile beside, False to his faith and country, dares reply; And speak of concord with yon men of pride, By your good leave, Sir King, here shall he ...

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... an aspect. A momentary lull now pervaded the empire; a transitory bond of concord appeared to unite its scattered limbs into one body, so that for a ... ...arties, have prolonged the peace; but as if to complete the confusion, all concord was quickly broken. The doctrines which had been propagated by Zuin...

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...d through all the choir, One voice, one measure ran, that perfect seem’d The concord of their song. “Are these I hear Spirits, O master?” I exclaim’d;... ...ith thee longer, take at large The rovers’ titles—Poverty and Francis. Their concord and glad looks, wonder and love, And sweet regard gave birth to h...

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...uld be our constant and earnest endeavor mu tually to cultivate a spirit of concord and harmony among the various parts of our Confederacy. Experienc... ...of sac rifice and blood, with union maintained, the Nation supreme, and its concord inspiring. We have seen the world rivet its hopeful gaze on the g...

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... cave and from every home, in the torments of Hell. At PEACE we shall be, in concord together, each with other in friendly mind, wherever we meet, on ...

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...verned by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord. Is it not (we may ask these projectors in politics) the true inter... ...s, let our gratitude mingle an ejaculation to Heaven, for the propi- tious concord which has distinguished the consultations for our political happine... ...idst of a danger which repressed the passions most unfriendly to order and concord; of an enthusiastic confidence of the people in their patriotic lea...

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...he work had been done, nothing neglected, and all were living in peace and concord. Efím’s family heard of his return the same day, and came for news ...

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...n yoke), there is not only an obvious propriety, but, if either freedom or concord is cared for, a necessity for breaking the connection altogether. T...

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... come to thee, swearing by God, “We desire nothing but to promote good and concord!” These are they whose hearts God knoweth. Therefore break off from... ...good; but only in his who enjoineth almsgiving, or that which is right, or concord among men. Whoso doth this, out of desire to please God, we will gi...

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...of controlling individual freedom so that some measure of social order and concord may result, but of achieving individual free- dom through developin...

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...to act in the spirit of them? Then in our city the language of harmony and concord will be more often beard than in any other. As I was describ Plato...

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...ld. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Con...

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...iplined, that they seemed rather to be a concert of organ-pipes, or mutual concord of the wheels of a clock, than an infantry and cavalry, or army of ... ...effect unwieldy of his body. In his old age he took to wife the Bailiff of Concordat’s daughter, young, fair, jolly, gal- lant, spruce, frisk, brisk, ...