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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Elec... ...unity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’st who sailed with me, ... ... sailed with me, Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, And fairer rivers dost ascend, Be thou my Muse, my Brother—. I am bound, I am bo... ... O VID, Met. I. 39 5 HenryDavidThoreau He confined the rivers within their sloping banks, Which in different places are part abs... ... though he must collect the rest of his revenue at the point of the sword. Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first... ...ged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prairie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes... ...ll wandering the sea in thy scaly armor to inquire humbly at the mouths of rivers if man has perchance left them free for thee to enter. By countless ...

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...e, what was the use of 5 Yo n g e keeping the poor lad unsettled? So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member’s wife, had come to arrange matter... ...wedding had taken place shortly after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London, and T om May had returned to Cambrid... ...the increasing pallor of the liquid. Mary, a ‘fine young woman,’ as George Rivers called her, of blooming face and sweet open expression, had begun, a... ...Arnott’s accounts, it was clear that the wife took a quadruple share. Mrs. Rivers had been heard to say that Norman need not have gone so far, and sac... ...sure in which county; but there’s a fine beach, and beautiful country. The Riverses found it out, and have been there every autumn; besides sending th... ...ought of that before, and now Aubrey may get some shoot- ing out of George Rivers.” After such good-nature my mouth is shut, though, ay di me, all the... ...on little Miss at last for her treatment of the Doctor, and neither he nor Rivers have forgiven me.’ ‘Poor child! I don’t believe she has ever known a... ...lies who had hitherto been patients of the Wards; and worse than all, Mrs. Rivers took her child up to London for three days in November, and it becam... ...erly dame, part nurse, part nursery governess, presently came to take Miss Rivers out, but Miss Rivers, with a whine in her voice, insisted on going n...

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... “I’ll go! I’ll go!” Mr. Bessemer glanced nervously at Travis. “That’s Mr. Rivers, isn’t it, daughter?” Travis smiled. “Well, I think I’ll—I think I’d... ...one thing, Howard,” remarked T ravis calmly, “don’t you ever again ask Mr. Rivers for a nickel to put in your bank.” Mr. Bessemer roused up. “Did that... ... down to the outside door, and before anything further could be said young Rivers came into the dining-room. 10 Blix Chapter II FOR SOME REASON, neve... ...he East- ern journals. He earned $100 a month. When Snooky had let him in, Rivers dashed up the stairs of the Bessemers’ flat, two at a time, tossed h... ...hat come from?” “That cuckoo clock?” inquired Travis, with a stare. “Condy Rivers, you’ve been here and in this room at least twice a week for the las... ...ave a new key made to-morrow.” “Hey? Y es—yes. Is that so?” answered Condy Rivers, bewildered, wishing to be polite, yet unable to follow the old man’... ...and Condy were still discussing this story, Mr. Bessemer rose. “W ell, Mr. Rivers,” he announced, “I guess I’ll say good-night. Come, Snooky.” “Y es, ... ...as borne in upon him that she was thinking precisely the same thing. Condy Rivers had met T ravis at a dance a year and a half before this, and, becau... ...s known as the Y ounger Set; though T ravis was too young to come out, and Rivers too old to feel very much at home with girls of twenty and boys of e...

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...e to cheare The teeming earth, and that forget to beare, Sooner that rivers will runne back, or Thames With ribs of Ice in June would bi... ...doe willingly in change delight, The fruitfull mother of our appetite: 10 Rivers the clearer and more pleasing are, Where their fair spreading st...

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...is songs charmed the stubborn rocks upon the moun tains and the course of rivers. And the wild oak trees to this day, tokens of that magic strain, th... ...fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being and all creeping things. And he sa... ...when the sea was stirred by violent blasts which were just rising from the rivers about evening, forspent with toil, they ceased. But Heracles by the ... ...e giving earth and cities of The Argonautica 84 men and sacred streams of rivers, and now in turn mountain peaks and the ocean all around, as he swep... ...quenched the blast of unwearied flame, and at once she stays the course of rivers as they rush roaring on, and checks the stars and the paths of the s...

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...wheeler from away North which was bound for one of them bayous or one horse rivers away down Louisiana way, and so we could go all the way down the U... ...nd the rain was driving down in slanting sheets, and the gullies was running rivers. Tom says: “Looky here, Huck, I’ll tell you one thing that’s might...

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...bled and hastened. Well do I remember that half-mile of rivulet; all other rivers and cascades have their reference to it for me. And after I was elev... ...n the Gothic build- 78 The New Machiavelli ings, in the narrow ditch-like rivers, in those roads and roads of stuffy little villas. Those little vill... ...ered, trained and 106 The New Machiavelli purposeful amidst its vales and rivers, that emotion of col- lective ends and collective purposes has retur... ...Roderick Newton, a Jew who had bought Calersham Castle, and old Sir Graham Rivers, that sturdy old soldier, were among my chief supporters. We had hea... ...th the manner of a trifling and casual incident comes the figure of Isabel Rivers. My first impressions of her were of a rather ugly and ungainly, ex-... ... came, rather cross from the strain of sustained amiability, to Sir Graham Rivers’ house. It seemed all softness and quiet—I recall dead white panelli... ...raphical and social and elec- tioneering fact natural to such a visit. Old Rivers struck me as a delightful person, modestly unconscious of his doubly... ...th of us. Except for that Pentagram evening, a series of talks with Isabel Rivers, who was now becoming more and more important in my intellectual lif... ...on, without any very definite explanation to any one but Esmeer and Isabel Rivers, and as if it was quite a small matter, I set my- self to secure a u...

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... am here only opening the fountains, and clearing the passage. To deduce the rivers, to follow them in their course, and to observe their effects, may...

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...vonshire, on the southern and south- eastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves, and where the broken moor...

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...s well known to naturalists. The vegetation at the bot- tom of the sea, of rivers, and of lakes, sympathizes with that of the land in the change of se... ...ember 29, 1820. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotio... ... the rent in my wind-built tent, _55 Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, ... ...2. 2. 2. 2. 2. The chill rain is falling, the nipped worm is crawling, The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling For the Year; The blithe swall... ...al also overflowed; all this part of the country is below the level of its rivers, and the consequence was that it was speedily flooded. The rising wa...

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...ahs dwelling in nearly unknown bays; with native settlements up mysterious rivers opening their sombre, forest-lined estuaries among a welter of pale ... ...down my bea- cons. I have had to put up a few to help me in and out of the rivers. Early this year a Celebes trader becalmed in a prau was watching hi...

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...inctively seen craft,” “the solemn shadows” and other phenomena visible on rivers at night are detailed (with not unskilful rhetoric) in order to brin...

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...te in the shape of furs; hot Africa sifted for him the golden sands of her rivers, and gathered up the ivory tusks of her great elephants out of the f...

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...narets of the pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributar- ies of the Godavery. Passeparto... ...the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every p... ...ry feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on full steam; and many of those prese...

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...dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their beginnings. ... ...s. It appeared as trade and tracks and roads, it pushed boats out upon the rivers and presently invaded the seas, and within its primitive courts, wit... ...n river valleys, and all their great cities had grown upon large navigable rivers or close to ports upon the sea. Over great areas even of this suitab...

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...eir country both famine and pestilence lay heavy upon them, and even their rivers were dried up. Being told by the oracle that, if they appeased and r... ...s, and the shepherds and graziers Aegicores. Since the country has but few rivers, lakes, or large springs, and many used wells which they had dug, th... ...ome were wholly dried up, others drew very little water with them; all the rivers, as is usual in summer, ran in a very low and hollow channel. But th... ...ry is rich in fruit trees, has excellent pasture, and is well watered with rivers. It had eighteen large and beauti- ful cities, well provided with al... ...at an earthquake, that it destroyed sev- eral towns, altered the course of rivers, and carried off parts of high cliffs, yet such was the eagerness of... ...s slain, of lakes and plains and forests strewed with the dead bodies, and rivers stained with the blood of his fellow-citizens; and yet, with his mat... ...eceive a great deal of fresh water, as well from springs as from lakes and rivers discharging themselves into the sea, breed abundance of eels, which ... ...tions of this age, who, unless whole tracts of land, or at least walls and rivers, part their inheritances, and keep them at a distance, never cease f... ... source al- ways ready and furnished, of supplying all the brooks and deep rivers; but, by compressing and condensing the vapors and air, they turn th...

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... in honor of his beloved daugh- ter, Madame de Beaujeu. By uniting the two rivers between the city of Tours and Plessis this canal not only served as ...

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... obstinate presentments of pictures once beheld, indistinct impressions of rivers, tow- ers, and cupolas, gathered in the length of journeys half for-... ...cles to a nose red- dened by excitement. “‘The Xingu, one of the principal rivers of Brazil, rises on the plateau of Mato Grosso, and flows in a north...

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...so with the great flotilla of “transients.” These latter came out of a dozen rivers—the Illinois, the Missouri, the Upper Mis sissippi, the Ohio, the... ...against both of the foreigners. It was disastrously effective. He poured out rivers of ridicule The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 99 upo...

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..., purple, heathery moor- land and grassy down, lush meadows, where shining rivers wound their lazy way, villages with square-towered, flint churches, ... ...d cannot find, to save you from a headlong fall; you plunge into weltering rivers, and rush helplessly at monstrous obstacles. Anon Mr. Hoopdriver fou... ...when he had first seen her riding, with the sunlight behind her, along the riverside road; he recalled that wonderful night at Bognor, remembering it ...