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Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building - Page 202
by Ronald Niezen - 2000 - 274 pages
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Volume 8

Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...agreed with his constitution ss little as 'doing good.' He tells us: 'I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines, and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 90

1877 - 832 pages
...of the present moment to any work, wli ether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed...sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, urtil by the sun falling in at my west window, •or the noise of some traveller's wagon •on the...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed...around or flitted noiseless •through the house, urtil by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant...
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The Life of Henry David Thoreau: By H. S. Salt

Henry S. Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 340 pages
...sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands." "Sometimes," he says, "in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines, and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while...
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Nature in Books: Some Studies in Biography

Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 226 pages
...having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed...stillness, while the birds sang around, or flitted noiselessly through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some...
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Nature in Books: Some Studies in Biography

Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 238 pages
...had an interlude from labour it deserves chronicling. ' Sometimes in a summer morning,' he says, ' having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...
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Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1899 - 386 pages
...of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed...and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, wnile the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at...
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The University Magazine and Free Review

Great Britain - 1899 - 438 pages
...of the present moment, to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumacks, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...
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Literary Collector: A Monthly Magazine of Booklore and Bibliography, Volume 8

Frederick C. Bursch, Annie Dennis Bursch - Bibliography - 1904 - 352 pages
...intellect. He went to Walden pond to be alone, to think, to clarify his senses. " Sometimes," he says, "in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath,...my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines, and hickories, and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while...
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...hands. I^love a broad p)».rgin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my~acc\S^omcJ bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a reverie, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the...
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