 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...size of trees, the depth and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favourite summits, — this, and his...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of landsurveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | 1862 - 796 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of landsurveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 Seiten
...open many of the hidden storehouses of knowledge, and through it again, he has added materially to oar stock of information, in certain directions, which...came of an ancient French family, and his father who was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, emigrated to America from the Isle of Guernsey, early in the present... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 484 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 100 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-surveyor. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 Seiten
...and extent of ponds and rivers, the height of mountains, and the air-line distance of his favorite summits, — this, and his intimate knowledge of the...about Concord, made him drift into the profession of land-survey Dr. It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds,... | |
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It had the advantage for him that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds, and helped his studies of Nature. His accuracy and skill in this work were readily appreciated, and he found all the employment he wanted. 
