See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID See also:

• HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

THOREAU (1817-1862)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American recluse, naturalist and writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CONCORD
• CONCORD, BOOK OF (Liber Concordiae)

Concord, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 12th of See also:

• JULY

July 1817 . To See also:

• THOREAU, HENRY DAVID (1817-1862)

Thoreau this Concord See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country contained all of beauty and even grandeur that was necessary to the worshipper of nature: he once journeyed to See also:

• CANADA

Canada; he went See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west on one occasion; he sailed and explored a few See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers; for the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest, he haunted Concord and its neighbourhood as faithfully as the See also:

• STORK (A. S. store, Ger. Storch)

stork does its ancestral See also:

• NEST

nest . See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Thoreau, his See also:

• FATHER

father, who married the daughter of a New See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, was the son of a John Thoreau of the isle of See also:

• JERSEY
• JERSEY, EARLS OF

Jersey, who, in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, married a Scottish See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of the name of See also:

• BURNS, JOHN (1858– )
• BURNS, ROBERT (1759-1796)
• BURNS, SIR GEORGE

Burns . This last-named John was the son of Philippe Thoreau and his wife See also:

• MARIE

Marie le Gallais, persons of pure See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• BLOOD

blood, settled at St Helier, in Jersey . From his New England Puritan See also:

• MOTHER

mother, from his Scottish grandmother, from his Jersey-American grandfather and from his remoter French ancestry Thoreau inherited distinctive traits: the Saxon See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element perhaps predominated, but the " See also:

• HAUNTINGS (from " to haunt," Fr. banter, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Lat. ambitare, ambire, to go about, frequent)

hauntings of Celtism " were prevalent and potent . The stock of the Thoreaus was a robust one; and in Concord the See also:

• FAMILY

family, though never wealthy nor officially influential, was ever held in See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar respect . As a boy, See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry drove his mother's cow to the pastures, and thus See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early became enamoured of certain aspects of nature and of certain delights of solitude . At school and at Harvard University he in nowise distinguished himself, though he was an intelligently receptive student; he became, however, proficient enough in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, Latin, and the more See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general acquirements to enable him to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as a See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master . But See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long before this he had become apprenticed to the learning of nature in preference to that of man: when only twelve years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he had made collections for See also:

• AGASSIZ, ALEXANDER EMANUEL (1835-191o)
• AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE (1807-1893)

Agassiz, who had . then just arrived in See also:

• AMERICA

America, and already the meadows and the hedges and the stream-sides had become cabinets of rare knowledge to him . On the See also:

• DESERTION

desertion of schoolmastering as a profession, Thoreau became a lecturer and author, though it was the labour of his hands which mainly supported him through many years of his See also:

• LIFE

life: professionally he was a surveyor . In the effort to reduce the practice of See also:

• ECONOMY

economy to a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• ART

art he arrived at the conviction that the less labour a man did, over and above the See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive demands of See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity, the better for him and for the community at large; he would have had the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the weekreversed—six days of rest for one of labour . It was in 1845 he made the now famous experiment of See also:

• WALDEN, ROGER (d. 1406)

Walden .

Desirous of proving to himself and others that man could be as See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind as the nest-See also:

• BUILDING

building See also:

• BIRD

bird, Thoreau retired to a hut of his own construction on the See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine-slope over against the shores of Walden See also:

• POND
• POND, JOHN (c. 1767-1836)

Pond—a hut which he built, furnished and kept in order entirely by the labour of his own hands . During the two years of his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in Walden See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods he lived by the exercise of a little See also:

• SURVEYING

surveying, a little See also:

• JOB

job-See also:

• WORK

work and the tillage of a few acres of ground which produced him his beans and potatoes . His See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence was as little gained as if he had camped out in See also:

• HYDE
• HYDE, THOMAS (1636-1703)

Hyde See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park; relatively he lived the life of a recluse . He read considerably, wrote abundantly, thought actively if not widely, and came to know beasts, birds and fishes with an intimacy more extraordinary than was the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case with St See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis of See also:

• ASSISI (anc. Asisium)

Assisi . Birds came at his See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call, and forgot their hereditary fear of man; beasts lipped and caressed him; the very See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish in See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake and stream would glide, unfearful, between his hands . This exquisite familiarity with bird and beast would make us love the memory of Thoreau if his egotism were triply as arrogant, if his often meaningless paradoxes were even more absurd, if his sympathies were even less humanitarian than we know them to have been . His Walden, the See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of this fascinating two years' experience, must always remain a See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INTEREST

interest and considerable psychological value . Some years before Thoreau took to Walden woods he made the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief friendship of his life, that with See also:

• EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882)
• EMERSON, WILLIAM (1701-1782)

Emerson . He became one of the famous circle of the transcendentalists, always keenly preserving his own individuality amongst such more or less potent natures as Emerson, See also:

• HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL (1804-1864)

Hawthorne and See also:

• MARGARET
• MARGARET (1283–1290)
• MARGARET (1353-1412)
• MARGARET (1489–1541)
• MARGARET, ST (c. 1045–1093)
• MARGARET, ST (SANCTA MARGARITA)

Margaret See also:

• FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)
• FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)
• FULLER, M
• FULLER, MARGARET, MARCHIONESS
• FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910)
• FULLER, THOMAS (16o8-1661)
• FULLER, WILLIAM (1670--c. 1717)

Fuller . From Emerson he gained more than from any man, alive or dead; and, though the older philosopher both enjoyed and learned from the association with the younger, it cannot be said that the gain was equal . There was nothing See also:

• ELECTRICAL
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical in Thoreau's intercourse with his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow men; he gave off no spiritual See also:

• SPARKS, JARED (1789-1866)

sparks . He absorbed intensely, but when called upon to illuminate in turn was found wanting .

It is with a sense of See also:

• RELIEF

relief that we read of his having really been stirred into active See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm anent the wrongs done the See also:

• ILL

ill-fated John See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

Brown, With See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children he was affectionate and See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle, with old See also:

• PEOPLE

people and strangers considerate . In a word, he loved his kind as animals, but did not seem to find them as interesting as those furred and feathered . In 1847 Thoreau See also:

• LEFT

left Walden Lake abruptly, and for a time occupied himself with See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead-See also:

• PENCIL (Lat. penicillus, brush, literally little tail)

pencil making, the parental See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . He never married, thus further fulfilling his policy of what one of his essayist-biographers has termed "See also:

• INDULGENCE (Lat. indulgentia, indulgere, to grant, concede)

indulgence in fine renouncements." At the comparatively early age of See also:

• FORTY

forty-five he died, on the 6th of May 1862 . - His See also:

• GRAVE

grave is in the Sleepy Hollow See also:

• CEMETERY (Gr. Korrsnri7pwv, from Hoiµav, to sleep)

cemetery at Concord, beside those of Hawthorne and Emerson . Thoreau's fame will rest on Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston, 1854) and the Excursions (Boston, 1863), though he wrote nothing which is not deserving of See also:

• NOTICE

notice . Up till his thirtieth See also:

• YEAR

year he dabbled in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, but he had little See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear for metrical See also:

• MUSIC

music, and he lacked the spiritual impulsiveness of the true poet . His weakness as a philosopher is his tendency to See also:

• BASE

base the See also:

• LAWS

laws of the universe on the experience-born, thought-produced convictions of one man—himself . His weakness as a writer is the too frequent striving after See also:

• ANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite ")

antithesis and See also:

• PARADOX (Gr. treat, beyond, contrary to, Sofia, opinion)

paradox . If he had had all his own originality without the itch of appearing See also:

• ORIGINAL

original, he would have made his See also:

• FASCINATION (from Lat. fascinare, to bewitch, probably connected with the Or. f3ao-Kaiveev, to speak ill of, to bewitch)

fascination irresistible . As it is, Thoreau holds a unique See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . He was a naturalist, but absolutely devoid of the pedantry of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science; a keen observer, but no retailer of disjointed facts .

He thus holds sway over two domains: he had the adherence of the lovers of fact and of the children of See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy . He must always be read, whether lovingly or interestedly, for he has all the variable See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm, the See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange saturninity, the contradictions, austerities and delightful surprises, of Nature herself . After Thoreau's See also:

• DEATH

death were also published: The See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Maine Woods (Boston, 1863) ; Cape See also:

• COD

Cod (Boston, 1865) ; A See also:

• YANKEE

Yankee in Canada (Boston, 1866) . In theAactinic Monthly, in 1862, appeared " Walking," " Autumn Tints " and " See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild Apples "; in 1863, " See also:

• NIGHT

Night and Moonlight." The See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of his See also:

• WORKS

works are The Writings of Henry See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David Thoreau, See also:

• RIVERSIDE

Riverside edition (II vols., Boston, 1894-1895), and See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

Manuscript edition (12 vols., ibid.,1907) . See also W . E . See also:

• CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY (1780–1842)

Channing, Thoreau: The Poet Naturalist (Boston, 1873) ; R . W . Emerson, an See also:

• INTRODUCTORY

introductory See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note to Excursions (Boston, 1863) ; F . B . Sanborn, Henry David Thoreau (Boston, 1882), in the " American Men of Letters See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series H . S .

See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

Salt, Life of Henry David Thoreau (See also:

• LONDON

London, 189o); Some Unpublished Letters of H . D. and See also:

• SOPHIA (1630-1714)

Sophia E . Thoreau (See also:

• JAMAICA

Jamaica, New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1890) ; J, See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

Russell See also:

• LOWELL
• LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE (1856— )
• LOWELL, CHARLES RUSSELL (1835-1864)
• LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL (1819-1891)
• LOWELL, JOHN (1743-1802)

Lowell, My Study Windows; R . L . See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson, See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

Familiar Studies in Men and Books; and F . H . See also:

• ALLEN, BOG OF
• ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
• ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
• ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
• ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
• ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)

Allen, Bibliography of H . D . Thoreau (Boston, 1908) . (W .