Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Greatest Essays of Henry David Thoreau – 26 Influential Titles in One Edition». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Civil Disobedience Slavery in Massachusetts Life Without Principle Excursions Natural History of Massachusetts A Walk to Wachusett The Landlord A Winter Walk The Succession of Forest Trees Walking Autumnal Tints Wild Apples Night and Moonlight Aulus Persius Flaccus The Service Sir Walter Raleigh Prayers Paradise (to be) Regained Herald of Freedom Thomas Carlyle and His Works Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum A Plea for Captain John Brown The Last Days of John Brown After the Death of John Brown Reform and the Reformers The Highland Light Dark Ages Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Henry David Thoreau. The Greatest Essays of Henry David Thoreau - 26 Influential Titles in One Edition
The Greatest Essays of Henry David Thoreau - 26 Influential Titles in One Edition
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Thoreau. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays
Civil Disobedience
Resistance to Civil Goverment
Slavery in Massachusetts
Life Without Principle
Excursions
Natural History of Massachusetts1
A Walk to Wachusett
The Landlord
A Winter Walk
The Succession of Forest Trees4
Walking
Autumnal Tints
Wild Apples
Night and Moonlight
Footnotes
Aulus Persius Flaccus
The Service
I. Qualities of the Recruit
II. What Music Shall We Have?
III. Not How Many, But Where the Enemy are
Sir Walter Raleigh
FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOVE
THE SHEPHERD'S PRAISE OF HIS SACRED DIANA
HIS PILGRIMAGE
Prayers
Paradise (to be) Regained
Herald of Freedom
Thomas Carlyle and His Works
Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
The Last Days of John Brown
A Plea for Captain John Brown
After the Death of John Brown
Reform and the Reformers
The Highland Light
Dark Ages
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Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With the autumn begins in some measure a new spring. The plover is heard whistling high in the air over the dry pastures, the finches flit from tree to tree, the bobolinks and flickers fly in flocks, and the goldfinch rides on the earliest blast, like a winged hyla peeping amid the rustle of the leaves. The crows, too, begin now to congregate; you may stand and count them as they fly low and straggling over the landscape, singly or by twos and threes, at intervals of half a mile, until a hundred have passed.
I have seen it suggested somewhere that the crow was brought to this country by the white man; but I shall as soon believe that the white man planted these pines and hemlocks. He is no spaniel to follow our steps; but rather flits about the clearings like the dusky spirit of the Indian, reminding me oftener of Philip and Powhatan than of Winthrop and Smith. He is a relic of the dark ages. By just so slight, by just so lasting a tenure does superstition hold the world ever; there is the rook in England, and the crow in New England.
