Early essays and miscellanies /
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1975. |
| Series: | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Works. 1971.
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Table of Contents:
- Early essays. The seasons
- Anxieties and delights of a discoverer
- Men whose pursuit is money
- Of keeping a private journal
- "We are apt to become what others ... think us to be"
- Forms, ceremonies, and restraints of polite society
- A man of business, a man of pleasure, a man of the world
- Musings
- Kinds of energetic character
- Privileges and pleasures of a literary man
- Severe and mild punishments
- Popular feeling
- Style may ... offend against simplicity
- The book of the seasons
- Sir Henry Vane
- Literary digressions
- Foreign influence on American literature
- Life and works of Sir W. Scott
- The love of stories
- Cultivation of the imagination
- The Greek classic poets
- The meaning of "fate"
- Whether the government ought to educate
- Travellers & inhabitants
- History-- of the Roman Republic
- A writer's nationality and individual genius
- L'allegro & Il penseroso
- All men are mad
- The speeches of Moloch & the rest
- People of different sections
- Gaining or exercising public influence
- Titles of books
- Sublimity
- The general obligation to tell the truth
- "Being content with common reasons"
- The duty, inconvenience and dangers of conformity
- Moral excellence
- Barbarities of civilized states
- T. Pomponius Atticus
- Class book autobiography
- "The commercial spirit of modern times"
- Miscellanies. DIED ... Miss Anna Jones
- Aulus Persius Flaccus
- The laws of Menu
- Sayings of Confucius
- Dark ages
- Chinese four books
- Homer, Ossian, Chaucer
- Hermes Trismegistus ... from the Gulistan of Saadi
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Thomas Carlyle and his works
- Love
- Chastity & sensuality.