Thoreau praised this man's actions at Harpers Ferry & eulogized him in 3 lectures
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H.D. Thoreau on John Brown  TPL - Sniggle.net  He saw enough, at any rate, to disgust him with a military life; indeed, to excite in him a ... [3]. For a part of his life he was a surveyor, and at one time he was engaged in ... A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; ..... on the floor of the Harper's Ferry engine-house,  that man whom you are about...
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J! Archive - Show #3331, aired 1999-02-15  On December 26, 1799 Washington was eulogized in Congress by this man known .... Thoreau praised this man's actions at Harpers Ferry & eulogized him in 3...
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Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia  Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax ... He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law .... at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to .... Emerson wrote the eulogy spoken at his funeral.
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Re-evaluating John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry  3 This dismissal of Brown as a lunatic or, at best, a religious fanatic, is common ... In 1859, the raid at Harpers Ferry was taken much more seriously, both by ... was a rational and respected man who attempted a dangerous but feasible action and ... John Brown's upbringing had prepared him to recognize the injustice in the...
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Remembering John Brown | Solidarity  October 16, 2009 was the 150th anniversary of the raid on Harpers Ferry. ... The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by ... In the immediate aftermath of his death, writers began to both sanctify and vilify him. ..... Eulogized by Thoreau as embodying transcendent moral greatness, Brown...
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Thoreau on company and being alone - Walden Effect  May 21, 2012 ... "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three ... I hear these same words all the time, but I seldom come up with as...
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Heroic Power in Thomas Carlyle and Leo Tolstoy: The European ...  Nov 23, 2006 ... In On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History (1840), Carlyle .... connection between Napoleon's orders or Rousseau's writings and millions of ... kind of influence hailed by Carlyle in Lecture 5, The Hero as a Man of ... Odin, Luther, Johnson, Burns;  these are all originally of one stuff; only by the...
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Free Flashcards about AMERICAN HISTORY - StudyStack  HE WROTE, "I COME TO MY SOLITARY WOODLAND WALK AS THE HOMESICK GO HOME", HENRY DAVID THOREAU. THE FIRST MENTION OF HER IN...
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Concord, MA Visitor Information | Concord Chamber of Commerce  Bedford Street, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of Louisa May ... Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Marriet ... Special events include Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature, Warm ... Learn about Thoreau's life beyond Walden Pond, and explore how his...
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Cape Cod 3 - The Plains of Nauset - The Thoreau Reader  chapter, has been moved to Appendix A, in line with a suggestion made by Thoreau. ... but he thought that we should find it very "heavy" walking in the sand; it was ... Everything told of the sea, even when we did not see its waste or hear its roar. ... In another place, I saw some not much larger than currant-bushes; yet the...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Wikipedia  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803  April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. ... Self-reliance, over-soul .... Boston's Second Church invited Emerson to serve as its junior pastor and he was...
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Full text of "Thomas Carlyle On Heroes Lecture II Prophet As Hero"  Some of his famous literary works are:  Sartor Rasartus: (first published in Fraser's ... On Heroes and Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History lectures were ... May to 19 th May 1840 in the following order:  Lecture I: The Hero as Divinity: Odin. ... 15 th May 1840  Lecture V: The Hero as a Man of Letters: Johnson, Rousseau,...
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American Renaissance - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature  Critics have since added two other authorsEdgar Allan Poe and Emily .... Melville, in his essay on Hawthorne, wrote, [G]great geniuses are parts of the times; they .... Thoreau's act of civil disobedience against a slavery-supporting government ... In 1838, he wrote a letter to President Martin Van Buren protesting against...
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Walden - Wikipedia  Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon ... He recounts the reasons for his move to Walden Pond along with detailed .... House-Warming: After picking November berries in the woods, Thoreau .... The American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book ... he...
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Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) - Wikipedia  Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. .... At the time of the abolition of slavery movement, he wrote his famous essay On the Duty of ... Others who are said to have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include:...
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Walden - Chapter 6 - The Thoreau Reader  [2] I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the...
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History eBook: Thomas ...  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History eBook: Thomas Carlyle: ... of six famous lectures given in May 1840. 1. (5 May) The Hero as Divinity. Odin. ... Dante, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Burns, John Knox, and .... He includes two Scots, Knox and Burns, in his rather short list of heroes, two...
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Walden and Civil Disobedience: Amazon.de: Henry David Thoreau ...  There is more day to dawn, he reminds us at the end: the sun is but a morning star. ... From The Pond in Winter, I discovered Thoreau's symbol of Walden and his ... says about the Pond, Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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CommonLit | Where I Lived and What I Lived For | Free Fiction ...  Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, essayist, poet, ... his two years spent living in the wilderness near Walden Pond in Massachusetts. ... "Thoreau's Cabin, Walden Pond" by Ryan Taylor is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. ... to live so sturdily and Spartan-like 2 as to put to rout 3 all that was not life,...
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I'm grateful for this honest, hardworking, and wise man of faith ...  This artwork of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife, and two sons, Robert and Tad, was .... reuniting lost family members and soldiers, etc. through on-the-job training during some of ...... Birth Name Thomas Woodrow Wilson Nickname The Professor The Schoolmaster in Politics The Phrasemaker Coiner of Weasel Words.
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Full text of "Report of the celebration by the Class of 1877 of Harvard ...  But he was far, far more than the teller of a good story, the singer of a good song, ... these modern times to whom the description of the Canterbury Pilgrim can be more ... knight," and " he loved chivalry. Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.