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Dec 21, - First edition, edited by Sophia E. Thoreau and William Ellery Channing.
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Exceptionally scarce in anything approaching Fine condition. This work is of singular importance due to its publication of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" preceded by publication in Elizabeth Peabody's anthology "Aesthetic Papers".
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We appreciate your understanding of theseoccasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing thebook in a format as close as possible to that intended by theoriginal publisher. He spent time as a school teacher after attendingHarvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administercorporal punishment. In , wanting to write his first book, hemoved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by RalphWaldo Emerson.
YANKEE IN CANADA, With Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers | Henry David Thoreau
It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau wasimprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became thebasis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience. All rights reserved. Yet the impression which thiscountry made on me was commonly different from this. Eventhe names of humble Canadian villages affected me as if they hadbeen those of the renowned cities of antiquity. To be told by ahabitan, when I asked the name of a village in sight, that it isSt.
Fereole or St. Assoon as you leave the States, these saintly names begin. I began to dream of Provence and theTroubadours, and of places and things which have no existence onthe earth. They veiled the Indian and the primitive forest, and thewoods toward Hudsonrsquo;s Bay, were only as the forests of Franceand Germany.
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I could not at once bring myself to believe that theinhabitants who pronounced daily those beautiful and, to me,significant names, lead as prosaic lives as we of New England. Inshort, the Canada which I saw was not merely a place for railroadsto terminate in and for criminals to run to. How far? Trois quatres lieue. How high? Je pense, quatre-vingt-dixpieds; that is, ninety feet. We turned aside to look at the fallsof the Riviegrave;re du Sault agrave; la Puce, half a mile from theroad, which before we had passed in our haste and ignorance, and wepronounced them as beautiful as any that we saw; yet they seemed tomake no account of them there, and, when first we inquired the wayto the Falls, directed us to Montmorenci, seven miles distant.
Itwas evident that this was the country for waterfalls; that everystream that empties into the St.
Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers
Lawrence, for some hundreds ofmiles, must have a great fall or cascade on it, and in its passagethrough the mountains was, for a short distance, a small Saguenay,with its upright walls. This fall of La Puce, the least remarkableof the four which we visited in this vicinity, we had never heardof till we came to Canada, and yet, so far as I know, there isnothing of the kind in New England to be compared with it.
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