 ... as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he. They felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority. Indian relics abound in Concord, — arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles, and fragments of pottery;...  Complete Works - Page 439by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...the riverbank, large heaps of clam-shellipand ashes mark spots which the savages frequented; The3e, and every circumstance touching the Indian, were important...tents for a few weeks in summer on the riverbank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark -canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on...pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-hauk. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...and admired by his townsmen, who had at first known him only as an oddity. The farmers who employe' him as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pages
...enabled him to tell every farmei more than he knew before of his own farm ; so that h« began to feel as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 328 pages
...Maine were chiefly for love of the ; Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manu- } facture of the bark-canoe, as well as of trying his hand '...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pages
...chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark- canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...management on the rapids. He was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his hist days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank, He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Ilocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-hank, He failed not to make acquaintance with the hest of them ; though he well knew that asking... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 pages
...of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, butjiomage solely, to the truth itselfj and as he discovered everywhere among doctors some...tents for a few weeks in summer on the riverbank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them ; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than...tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. He failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them; though he well knew that asking questions... | |
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