...DAVlD THOREAU. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. NATURALIST, STOIC, SCHOLAR, TRANSCENDENTALIST. EXTRACTS. FROM " WALDEN." I SHOULD not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well. I thiuk that we may safely trust a great deal more than we do. We may waive just so...

...difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were...;anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am conjfined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Morejover, I, on my side, require of every...

...admirable 1906 twenty-volume edition of his complete works — the only edition to own — he says : "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." And then he is off with you into two years of radiant actuality by the pond side a mile and a half...

...their history, written in their language, based on life's experiences of one of them. Thoreau said: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." And so, my Uncle Mont becomes a symbol. He is one of the nameless thousands who helped settle America...

...continuous and carefully documented projection of the self. Walden announces itself autobiography — "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well." The book is an idealized and romantic account of Thoreau's sojourn in the woods. Even its beautiful...

...excuse for doing so is the one given by Henry David Thoreau at the beginning of 'Walden," where he says: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Of course,...

...him as both, and he may have reminded some of them of Thoreau, who on the first page of Walden said: I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. ... I require of every writer, f1rst or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life. As they...

...admitted: "We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person who is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else I knew so well." Thoreau would perhaps have agreed with Andre Gide's candid admission: When I am not...

.... . . We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau, Waldeti Why the preponderance of first-person narration in modern Japanese shosetsu?...

...Such a common forgetfulness, inattention, or unreflectiveness is encouraged to beat a hasty retreat in Walden; "I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well." The economist persona, whose account is confined only by his understanding...