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...tening of the bowstring,) from the reflection that much of the history re- mained still untold, and that the petulance of her brute of a husband had r... ...led by the Norwegians Vurrgh. The one midway is Moskoe. That a mile to the northward is Ambaaren. Yonder are Islesen, Hotholm, Keildhelm, Suarven, and... ... and which purports to claim the invention for a Mr. Kissam, of Brunswick, Maine, appears to me, I confess, a little apocryphal, for several reasons; ... ...ould never gain, at once, thorough possession of my senses, and always re- mained, for many minutes, in much bewilderment and per- plexity;—the mental... ...to one hundred and fifty or perhaps two hundred. It was most narrow at its north- ern extremity, opening out as it tended southwardly, but with no ver... ...ich encompassed the vale could not fairly be called hills, unless at their northern face. Here a precipitous ledge of granite arose to a height of som... ...b- ject; my attention being all absorbed in a contemplated depar- ture for Oxford. Thither I soon went; the uncalculating vanity of my parents furnish... ...y, the frank, the generous William Wilson—the noblest and most commoner at Oxford —him whose follies (said his parasites) were but the follies of yout... ...deed, we have had enough. Y ou will see the necessity, I hope, of quitting Oxford—at all events, of quit- ting instantly my chambers.” Abased, humbled...

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...gro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that en slave both North and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to h... ...and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself. T... ...n the map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race ... ... or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to... ...s the rest of their lives. Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever? Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal education... ...hey are proof sheets which need no cor rection. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four do... ...eral days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had Walden 157 been ...

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...branches of the forest. Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowe... ...ganic being. In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of th... ...he delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels him- self stronger than before by a new thou... ...pposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism... ...n some one. He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,—east, west, north, or south; or an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic. And why not?... ... part of the narra- tor that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of ab- horrence. But if we...

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...dog face and a scar on his left cheek. He spoke rarely and solemnly with a Maine coast Yankee twang. “I reckon so,” was all he said. He sat down on th... ... “Harvard.” “Harvard … . Guess we haven’t got a chapter there … . I’m from North Western. Anyway you want to go to school in France here if you can. S... ...ant Bleezer, with a faint tremor of hesitation in his voice. “I’m going to Oxford myself.” “T rust me, my boy,” said Sheffield. “I’ll fix it up for yo... ...is whole body, in the rustling silence of the woods, where the moss on the north side of the boles of the trees was emerald, and where the sky was sof...

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... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ..., 51 U. S. Grant volunteers for one year commenced arriving. The army re- mained at Matamoras until sufficiently reinforced to war- rant a movement i... ... drill. When they were ready to go to Springfield I went with them and re- mained there until they were assigned to a regiment. There were so many mor... ...mpaign; the latter I relieved after the battle of Chattanooga. Rawlins re- mained with me as long as he lived, and rose to the rank of brigadier gener... ... was always prompt, was up by the 29th to Cottage Hill, ten miles north of Oxford. He brought three divisions with him, leaving a garrison of only fou... ...expe- dition of Hovey and Washburn. The enemy was followed as far south as Oxford by the main body of troops, and some seventeen miles farther by McPh... ... a short matter, and, later, rails were laid for cars. During the delay at Oxford in repairing railroads I learned that an expedition down the Mississ...