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

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the ... ...vid Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication ... ...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers meat; who were out not only in ’75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, o... ...th Bridge,” over which in April, 1775, rolled the first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave... ...her in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian rhexia, and drooping neottia or ladies’ tresses; while from the m...

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Excerpt: A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.

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...A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30,... ...A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn Sta... ...A 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... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...t his father was a contractor who furnished beef to the army there, in the war of 1812; that he accompanied him to the camp, and assisted him in that ... ...ather was a contractor who furnished beef to the army there, in the war of 1812; that he accompanied him to the camp, and assisted him in that employm... ...hen she was in the wrong. A Western writer says, to account for his escape from so many perils, that he was concealed under a “rural exterior”; as if,... ...n my camp, than a man without principle.... It is a mistake, sir, that our people make, when they think that bullies are the best fighters, or that th... ... an ordinary malefactor, though one of unusual “pluck,”—as the Governor of Virginia is reported to have said, using the lan- guage of the cock-pit, “t...