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" Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and... "
Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ... - Page 138
by University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 407 pages
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1877 - 814 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearnnce, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a haid bottom aпd rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake ; and...
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Thoreau's Thoughts: Selections from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...ward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality. surfaces to , - 1111 WALDEN, p. 105. secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands...
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Walden, Volume 1

Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...is, and no mistake ; and then begin, having a point cTappui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set...
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau - 1904 - 268 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...is, and no mistake ; and then begin, having a point ffappui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a well or a state, or set...
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Nature in American Literature: Studies in the Modern View of Nature

Norman Foerster - 1923 - 362 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might find a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a 1 The Platonism of Thoreau, such as...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui,1 below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui,1 below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set...
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Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 pages
...and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and '' -covers the globe, through Paris and London, througTTNew York "and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, tilljyejcgme4o-a hard_bettpm.and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and. say, This is, and...
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau - 1910 - 482 pages
...downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris...rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, Thisjs, and no mistake ; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire,...
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The American Dream and the National Game

Leverett T. Smith (Jr.) - 2004 - 302 pages
...that alluvion which covers the globe . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin. . . ." (p. 80) Thoreau went to Walden because he "wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...
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