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... sense ; other men have chosen to be poor , and , as between phy- sical comfort and better things , have made light of physical comfort ; other men , whether to their credit or discredit , have held and expressed a contemptu- ous opinion ...
... sense ; other men have chosen to be poor , and , as between phy- sical comfort and better things , have made light of physical comfort ; other men , whether to their credit or discredit , have held and expressed a contemptu- ous opinion ...
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... sense of the word , Thoreau had none to make . He was no Montaigne , no Rousseau , no Samuel Pepys . How should he be ? He was a Puritan of Mas- sachusetts , though he kept no Sabbath , was seen in no church , - being very dif- - ferent ...
... sense of the word , Thoreau had none to make . He was no Montaigne , no Rousseau , no Samuel Pepys . How should he be ? He was a Puritan of Mas- sachusetts , though he kept no Sabbath , was seen in no church , - being very dif- - ferent ...
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... sense of victory , a roll of the drum , to call his powers into full exercise . . . . It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it , so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought . This ...
... sense of victory , a roll of the drum , to call his powers into full exercise . . . . It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it , so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought . This ...
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... sense must be pampered ; else it would lose its native freshness and delicacy , and so its di- viner use . That way lay perdition . When a woman came to Concord to lecture , and Thoreau carried her manuscript to the hall for her ...
... sense must be pampered ; else it would lose its native freshness and delicacy , and so its di- viner use . That way lay perdition . When a woman came to Concord to lecture , and Thoreau carried her manuscript to the hall for her ...
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... in to criticise the lecture . It was in one sense more of an ordeal to face the audience of a country town than that of a city , from the very fact that the speaker had the whole town to hear him , to American Audiences 39.
... in to criticise the lecture . It was in one sense more of an ordeal to face the audience of a country town than that of a city , from the very fact that the speaker had the whole town to hear him , to American Audiences 39.
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