The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... least careful . It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life , though in the midst of an outward civilization , if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them ...
... least careful . It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life , though in the midst of an outward civilization , if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them ...
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... least make him think that it was so , or to make something else which it would be worth his while to buy . I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture , but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them . Yet not the ...
... least make him think that it was so , or to make something else which it would be worth his while to buy . I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture , but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them . Yet not the ...
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... least clean and unpatched clothes , than to have a sound conscience . But even - if the rent is not mended , perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence . I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this , Who could wear a ...
... least clean and unpatched clothes , than to have a sound conscience . But even - if the rent is not mended , perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence . I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this , Who could wear a ...
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... , clothes introduced sewing , a kind of work which you may call endless ; a woman's dress , at least , is never done . A man who has at length found some- thing to do will not need to get a new suit - - to do it in ; for him the 38 WALDEN .
... , clothes introduced sewing , a kind of work which you may call endless ; a woman's dress , at least , is never done . A man who has at length found some- thing to do will not need to get a new suit - - to do it in ; for him the 38 WALDEN .
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... least , get into it when it rained and at night , and hook down the lid , and so have freedom in his love , and in his soul be free . This did not appear the worst , nor by any means a despicable alter- native . You could sit up as late ...
... least , get into it when it rained and at night , and hook down the lid , and so have freedom in his love , and in his soul be free . This did not appear the worst , nor by any means a despicable alter- native . You could sit up as late ...
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