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Miscellanies (1893)
by Henry David Thoreau, edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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MISCELLANIES

BY

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
BY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

AND A GENERAL INDEX
TO THE WRITINGS


Riverside Press logo 1890
Riverside Press logo 1890


CAMBRIDGE
Printed at the Riverside Press
1894

CONTENTS


PAGE
Introductory Note vii
Biographical Sketch by R. W. Emerson 1
The Service: Qualities of the Recruit 35
Paradise (to be) Regained 38
Herald of Freedom 70
Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum 76
Thomas Carlyle and his Works 81
Civil Disobedience 131
Slavery in Massachusetts 171
A Plea for Captain John Brown 197
The Last Days of John Brown 237
After the Death of John Brown 249
Life without Principle 253
The Prometheus Bound of Æschylus 288
Translations from Pindar 337
Poems.
Inspiration 358
Pilgrims 359
To a Stray Fowl 360
The Black Knight 361
The Moon 362
Omnipresence 363
Inspiration 363
Prayer 363
Mission 364
Delay 364

Large-Paper Edition
——————
THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS
AND FULL INDEXES


IN TEN VOLUMES

VOLUME X

COPYRIGHT. 1863. 1866
BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS
COPYRIGHT, 1883
BY EDWARD W. EMERSON
COPYRIGHT, 1893
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

One hundred and
fifty Copies printed
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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