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Publié par | Read Books Ltd. |
Date de parution | 14 août 2020 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9781528790635 |
Langue | English |
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NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT
By
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON
First published in 1863
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. . . "
— Henry Dav id Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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BIOGRAP HICAL SKETCH
By Ralph W aldo Emerson
NIGHT A ND MOONLIGHT
An Essay by Henry D avid Thoreau
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey. His character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this blood in singular combination with a very strong S axon genius.
He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1837, but without any literary distinction. An iconoclast in literature, he seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem, whilst yet his debt to them was important. After leaving the University, he joined his brother in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced. His father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.